Talk about lazy. I actually injured my ribs straining to bend over far enough to reach something I'd dropped a few months ago. I was just bound and determined I could reach it without having to actually get off the mower. I decided then I needed to get more exercise as I was obviously getting way too lazy. I now cut our front yard with the push mower instead of the rider. The backyard is still too big to use the push mower on. It takes almost 2 hours to cut the back with the pusher and I just have better things to do than spend that long on just cutting the back yard.
Yeah, who'd think you'd need to carry a gun while working in your own yard? But in the last few months we lived there 4 houses on our street were broken into, 1 while the owners were home. The couple across the street were accosted as they came home by a punk demanding (not begging) money but he ran off when he saw me coming across the street to see what the commotion was about. There were 2 murders at stores within a quarter of a mile or less, at least three armed robberies, a woman was raped in the woods behind our house, on our property. She actually woke me up screaming, but people walking up and down the street all hours of the day and night screaming at one another or just at thin air was so common place that I ignored it. My cousin was also shot at when he stopped at a convenience store up the street on the way to our house. A punk had just robbed the store, came running out as my cousin pulled into a parking space and just shot right through the windsheild at him. The dashboard caught the bullet, 2 inches higher and it woud have hit him in the face. This was the same town I grew up and went to school in. It was heartbreaking to watch it go downhill to the point that I felt the need to be armed 24 hours a day.
