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My neighbor called my leaf-blowing 'performance art' and I actually stopped doing it at 7am
I used to be out there every Saturday morning at 7 sharp with my gas leaf blower, blasting every single leaf off my driveway and into the street. My neighbor came over last month and asked if I was trying to 'create a dramatic swirl effect' because apparently I was just moving the same 12 leaves around for 45 minutes. He showed me his rake and said it takes him 15 minutes to do his whole yard, and I felt like an idiot. I timed myself last weekend with a rake and did my whole front lawn in 22 minutes flat. Has anyone else had a neighbor call them out on something dumb they did for years?
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moore.beth2mo ago
The boot stomp thing is gold. My old neighbor used to edge his lawn with garden shears, on his knees for an hour. I told him to just use a string trimmer like a normal person and he got defensive about "the old ways." Then his wife bought him a trimmer for his birthday and he texted me a photo of the same yard done in 12 minutes with a crying laugh emoji. Sometimes you just need one person to point out you're doing life on hard mode for no reason. What's the dumbest habit you've been called out on?
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angelarivera2mo ago
My buddy Dave spent three years using a weed whacker to edge his driveway because he saw someone do it on HGTV. I told him to just stomp the grass back with his boot like a normal person and he looked at me like I was crazy. Two weeks later he texted me a picture of his driveway with a caption "10 minutes flat." Sometimes we just get stuck on a dumb habit until someone snaps us out of it.
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fiona_kim2mo ago
Right, so what took Dave three years to figure out that a single boot stomp couldn't solve in 10 minutes? @angelarivera, how deep does that HGTV brainwashing really go when we're talking this much wasted time?
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