I have
done a lot of things in my life. I've seen the Eiffel Tower, I've been diving
with sharks off the coast of Cuba in the middle of the night. I've climbed several of the highest peaks in
the Sierra Nevada Mountians. I've seen the Leaning Tower of Piza, and been atop
the Great Wall of China. I've written a masters thesis on the geochemistry of
fifteen million year old rocks, and discovered a new (extinct) species of
scallops. I've done lots of cool stuff to be sure. But one thing I haven't done
is...mow a lawn!
Yes.
Well, that was until today anyway, whereupon I DID mow a lawn, and spent the
whole time thinking about how it could possibly be that I've never done it
before.
But ever
since I left home as a teen, I either lived in an apartment or condo complex,
or my house didn't have a yard that required mowing. So here I am, suddenly 34
years old and an honest-to-god lawn mowing virgin.
Over all
I think I did OK. I'd give myself an A+ for effort and about a....C...maybe C-
for execution. Technically I probably mowed it twice by the time I managed to
figure out where I'd been before, and get my lines straight. But I prefer to
think of myself as extremely thorough.
I am sure
if there was someone watching me though, they would have been wondering what in
the hell I was doing, trailblazing as I was and going in multiple circles
around the trees. And a further technicality I guess is that I wasn't really
mowing much actual grass. It was more a "deflowering" as there was a
most surprisingly robust colony of dandelions carpeting the space between the
house and the road. But, whatever. It counts to me . Anyway, it got done, I am
no longer a lawn-mowing virgin and I enjoyed every minute of it!
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