Out of the Blue [Jun 28, 2004, 09:20 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
I am still on quite a roll of having devices die at my hands... yesterday I was
giving the lawn an overdue mowing when the little handle you pull to start the
mower fell beneath its blades. Not only did this replace the pull handle with a
much less graspable handful of tattered string, but also managed to tangle
something within, leaving the mower un-startable. The good news is that lawn
mowers are one of the few devices that one repairs rather than replaces these
days, but that's the bad news as well, as if it's a couple of weeks before we
get it back from the shop, we may have the beginnings of a rain forest in the
back yard.
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Moved into a new place about 2 years ago, the first home I'd owned with grass (lived in NYC). I just went to Sears, bought their cheapest gas powered mower (about $200 IIRC) and the things being going strong ever since. the Briggs and Stratton engine feels like it'll keep chugging away no matter whats thrown at it, and since my yard consists of about 0.5 acre of grass, trees and thickets interspersed with the occasional kids toy pretty much everything has.
EDIT: for those with Firefox there's a nice extension called BugMeNot http://www.bugmenot.com/ . It's essentially a repository for id/pw for sites like the NY and LA times that require registration for marketing purposes.
This comment was edited on Jun 28, 13:10.
EDIT: for those with Firefox there's a nice extension called BugMeNot http://www.bugmenot.com/ . It's essentially a repository for id/pw for sites like the NY and LA times that require registration for marketing purposes.
This comment was edited on Jun 28, 13:10.
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