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What is the obsession with hating leaf blowers? Lol. There's a giant tree in my backyard. The leaves cover my patio which is concrete and a table and a grill. It would take me an hour to rake/sweep all the leaves. With a blower it takes 5 minutes to blow them into my patch of grass which the leaves then fertilize. I'm apparently at worst, an evil demon and at best, an inconsiderate asshole for daring to use a leaf blower.
Also it's really fun. I don't get it.
Petromasculinity?
Good word, I like it
It's from Cara Daggett :)
I'm petty sure it was on Wikipedia as well, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I just got a 765cfm battery-powered leaf blower and...
...it's so much fun. Mindlessly entertaining. I don't even care if I just blow the leaves back and forth, it's just...weirdly fun.
Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.
Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.
Hey, this guy knows my ex-wife. tugs collar
My puppy loses his shit when I aim the leaf blower towards him.
If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I'd choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.
This comment is magic lol
I like using leaf blower, don't like listening to leaf blower.
Well I ain't gonna get down on my knees and blow them myself
And that's why I'm leafing you!
Either the boss said he had to do it, our his homelife is so bad, that blowing leaves is an improvement.
You're having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren't kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren't doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.
Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.
The leaves must blow.
Kwisatz Daderach
"they must not be scattered, mess is the mind killer"
Honestly, it's just fun to blow leaves or snow. It's a mindless puttering activity that lets you improve your home area and be mildly active.
Unfortunately what happens is people's general tendency to think about themselves and nobody else. So they're self-satisfied in their reasons for being out there, not thinking about the dude next door that works nights and can't sleep, and even his construction-grade noise headphones don't help. Or the dude that just wants to listen to jazz quietly.
The leaf blower people are well-meaning people with mild mental illness who are just selfish enough not to realize their home/self care is annoying others. e: A lot of times the guy just needs to get the F away from their spouse. I've lived near leaf blower people and they're invariably older married (sometimes retired) men. Never women.
I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts
A leaf blower is far superior for getting leaves out of corners and other spaces smaller than a rake, especially if the leaves are small or falling apart.
I have an electric one that isn't that loud, and I generally use it for edges and then rake up the open spaces.
Plus, you can leave it in awkward places as a trap!
doinggg!!!
I miss the internet being like this. I like this
One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.
Are they ex military? Are they an ASVAB waiver? Did they used to get told to mop up the rain too?
Yeah we saw one of our neighbors watering the storm drain. But also recently she drove from her driveway to ours - literally got in her car, backed out the driveway then immediate turn into ours, to come ask a question. Then got back in her car, backed out of our driveway and immediate turn into hers. So I think she is just crazy.
I really hate leaf blowers.
My neighbor will blow them into my driveway (which is higher than his so it's a never ending battle) and then he'll walk between my house and the house on his other side blowing leaves to the other side of the street. He wastes so much gas every day, I would find it funny if it weren't infuriating. Like, who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore?
Are you in IL? I just saw my neighbor doing that, but he has dementia. I think there are to many people who want a manicured lawn. Personally I don't see why so many people like that.
if I ever live somewhere with a garden, I'm ripping out the grass and planting a dandelawn.
It's like a hair dryer for lawns, leaves are the dandruff.
I don't think you know what hair dryers are for...
Dude's head is like a blizzard
As it happens, it's about 10 C (50 F) near me and raining, and I did actually think about using my leaf blower for a very specific purpose: blowing the leaves clear of the road gutters.
I saw outside my window that the autumn leaves formed a dam in the gutter, impounding an amount of water which started diverting onto the asphalt and the sidewalk. From what little I know about road construction, water intrusion is the greater enemy so I didn't want to let the small pond sit there.
In the end, I just picked the leaves up by hand to remove the obstruction. But if I had a lot more streetfront, leaf blower would be the first tool to come to mind. But it would take no more than 10 minutes total.