5 in the mawnin'

10/28/2014 10:12:55 AM

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"I'm surprised to hear that there is anybody who would object to late afternoon/early evening."

We have a neighbor across the cove at our lake house that does his yard work between 6-8pm on the weekends he decides to actually show up and use the place. Sound in our cove echoes tremendously and while everyone is out trying to enjoy the time grilling, fishing, swimming, or just relaxing on the deck we are all forced to listen to this guy mow down his overgrowth with a shitty weed-eater. It finally came to head over July 4th weekend when one our neighbors walked out on his pier and told the guy to shut the fuck up for a few hours.

Everyone has the right to work on their property when and how they see fit, but that doesn't give you a pass from having general awareness to your surroundings and those around you.

10/28/2014 10:18:02 AM

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"There's a whole group of people who find TV watching more pleasurable than sleeping late. If it's loud enough to keep you from sleeping on a Saturday morning, it's loud enough to drown out the TV."

It's that big of a struggle to hear over your neighbor's mower? Are you watching TV from the comfort of your front porch?

10/28/2014 10:23:46 AM

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"I'd also like to point out that there's a difference between being annoyed at being woken up by a lawn mower at, say, 9 AM and it actually being rude for your neighbor."

qft

10/28/2014 10:25:51 AM

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"It's that big of a struggle to hear over your neighbor's mower? Are you watching TV from the comfort of your front porch?"

Really? It's loud enough to wake you up from your deeply needed sleep, but you can't fathom how it could be loud enough to cause an annoyance while watching TV? Heck, my dishwasher annoys me while watching TV and it sure as heck won't wake me up while I'm sleeping.

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 10:43 AM. Reason : ^this.]

10/28/2014 10:43:42 AM

You know there's a couple magic little buttons on your remote that allow you to increase or decrease the sound on your television's (or sound system's) speakers, right?
On the other hand, I cannot turn up the dial on my sleeping to avoid being woken up by your hedge trimmers at 8:01am.

10/28/2014 10:52:07 AM

White noise machine. You should invest in one. It's amazing.

10/28/2014 10:55:09 AM

Isn't Beethoven almost totally deaf?

I use a noise machine... I'm afraid that one day it will prevent me from hearing someone break into my house while i try to sleep.

10/28/2014 10:57:20 AM

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""There's a whole group of people who find TV watching more pleasurable than sleeping late. If it's loud enough to keep you from sleeping on a Saturday morning, it's loud enough to drown out the TV."

Do what now?

To wake someone up from sleep, a sound really just has to be louder than the ambient noise level. To prevent you from hearing your television, it has to be louder than the television. Something in the first category is not necessarily in the second.

10/28/2014 11:10:11 AM

Am I going to have to analyze how soundly my neighbors sleep before I mow now?

10/28/2014 11:15:07 AM

You mean they aren't out there mowing at 8am with you? Wow, imagine that.

10/28/2014 11:16:21 AM

No, just wait until at least 9:00 and it won't be an issue.

10/28/2014 11:16:38 AM

Or I'll mow at 8am and it will continue to not be an issue for me.

10/28/2014 11:22:49 AM

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"To wake someone up from sleep, a sound really just has to be louder than the ambient noise level"

I sleep through raging thunderstorms, son.

10/28/2014 11:34:06 AM

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"Or I'll mow at 8am and it will continue to not be an issue for me."

And that's the point, you (and your kind) are pretty much just self-involved and inconsiderate of other people.

10/28/2014 11:41:47 AM

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" And that's the point, you (and your kind) are pretty much just self-involved and inconsiderate of other people. "

Either choice I make I'm being inconsiderate to someone. You're being inconsiderate to the group of people that is sitting down and having dinner at 7 pm with their family by asking me to mow later in the day. So why not just pick whatever time is at least beneficial to me?

10/28/2014 11:53:57 AM

the clear solution is to just hire a mexican to do it so that they can all be mad at him when he chooses to come mow.

10/28/2014 11:57:35 AM

I, like a lot of people, enjoy an afternoon nap on Sundays. If you mow your lawn in the afternoon on a weekend you are an asshole.

10/28/2014 12:17:50 PM

People who nap are lazy, imho.

i'm only able to sleep late at night and do my best sleeping in the morning on the weekend. I can't just decide to lie down and sleep in the middle of the day, regardless of how tired i am.

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 12:54 PM. Reason : ]

10/28/2014 12:50:26 PM

People who sleep in on the weekends are lazy, imho.

10/28/2014 1:05:51 PM

People who sleep more than 50 hours a week are lazy, imho

10/28/2014 1:32:03 PM

people who sleep are lazy

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 1:34 PM. Reason : imho]

10/28/2014 1:34:24 PM

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"the clear solution is to just hire a mexican to do it so that they can all be mad at him when he chooses to come mow."

How much should we tip them?

10/28/2014 1:45:30 PM

Every time I load up My Topics, I'm surprised that this thread has more replies. Y'all are really passionate about time/lawn work.

10/28/2014 2:20:09 PM

My solution to this issue is to just not mow my lawn. It's worked pretty well for me so far. I've mowed like 3 times this year.

10/28/2014 2:31:49 PM

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"You're being inconsiderate to the group of people that is sitting down and having dinner at 7 pm with their family"

lol. weakest argument in the whole thread.

also it sounds like you live in a neighborhood full of cunts

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 2:36 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2014 2:35:01 PM

If we're going to overgeneralize, it comes across to me like those of you arguing against yardwork at 8am on a Saturday have yet to live in the real world. Suck it up and move on. And if your extra hour of sleep is really that important, offer to mow their lawn later so you can catch your beauty rest.

10/28/2014 2:38:15 PM

yall do realize how bad it is for the enviornment to add fertilizer to your lawn, right? you're increasing algae, killing fish and other water-dependent wildlife, making lakes green, causing water treatment plants to spend more money cleaning up the water so it's drinkable, etc. etc. People who try to make their lawn immaculate are being very incosiderate to the environment, the critters that rely on the water, and the people who drink the water.

not to mention the jerks who don't collect their clippings, or just throw their clipping in the woods instead of properly disposing of it in a lined landfill...

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM. Reason : and don't get me started on insecticides and pesticides..]

10/28/2014 2:38:26 PM

I'm too cheap for fertilizer. I don't see how that's an issue in this thread.

10/28/2014 2:39:28 PM

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"My solution to this issue is to just not mow my lawn. It's worked pretty well for me so far. I've mowed like 3 times this year."

1. Remove all grass from lawn
2. Spray paint "lawn" green
3. ???
4. Profit

10/28/2014 2:40:57 PM

^Step 3 is everybody gets to sleep till noon

10/28/2014 2:48:32 PM

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"lol. weakest argument in the whole thread."

How so? Mowing at 8 am is bothering a group of people and mowing at 7 pm is bothering people. Are you saying more people are sleeping at 8 am on Saturday than eating dinner at 7pm on a weekday? Don't know if I agree with that. Or are you saying that getting an extra hour of sleep on a Sunday is more important than having a peaceful dinner with your spouse and/or kids while you talk about each other's day? Don't know if that's a winning argument either.

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"not to mention the jerks who don't collect their clippings, or just throw their clipping in the woods instead of properly disposing of it in a lined landfill..."

Clippings are fertilizer. You gotta leave that shit on the lawn, son.

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 2:55 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2014 2:54:11 PM

I mow my lawn at 7am

IN CARGO SHORTS

10/28/2014 2:54:50 PM

^^I would just guess that more people are either sleeping, or just waking up at 8am on a Sunday than households nearby are eating family dinner at 7. But just a guess.

But more relevantly, I can never recall a time where I was consciously bothered by someone mowing while I ate dinner. Maybe if they were your next door neighbor, and it was right outside your kitchen window or something. Whereas a mower a few houses down could still wake you up in the morning.

People often talk loud in restaurants and don't usually ruin my meal. I'm not gonna bring it up to the manager.

10/28/2014 2:58:30 PM

^

10/28/2014 3:00:09 PM

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"I mow my lawn at 7am IN CARGO SHORTS"

10/28/2014 3:01:06 PM

If a mower going off a few houses down wakes you up in the morning, you were about to wake up anyways. And people talking in a public restaurant now = the noise of a neighbor's lawnmower when you're sitting down to eat...really? We're getting some stretched out arguments here.

lol at Mark Sanchez



[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 3:03 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2014 3:01:47 PM

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"Clippings are fertilizer. You gotta leave that shit on the lawn, son."

nah man, that stuff just runs off and harms the nearby streams, creeks and lakes.

10/28/2014 3:09:08 PM

Look

The reality here is that if you sleep in, you're probably not going to sleep in until 9 or 10 AM every Saturday. And chances are, your neighbor isn't going to start mowing at 8 AM on the dot every Saturday. More often than not, your schedules will coincide where there might be the occasional annoyance. That's called life. That's called dealing with others.

10/28/2014 3:19:27 PM

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"not to mention the jerks who don't collect their clippings, or just throw their clipping in the woods instead of properly disposing of it in a lined landfill."

Whoa. That's a lot of stupid

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 3:23 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2014 3:22:45 PM

^^Get that rational shit outta here

10/28/2014 4:48:22 PM

^^only if you're incosiderate of the environment. in fact, grassed lawns are pretty inconsiderate, that's not the natural state the grounds wants to be in.

[Edited on October 28, 2014 at 4:49 PM. Reason : ]

10/28/2014 4:49:29 PM

it's bad to send grass clippings into streams via storm drains, but if you are regularly mowing your grass with a mulching mower you don't have enough clippings to generate any kind of runoff

that's where you jumped the shark

10/28/2014 5:01:49 PM

^ agreed.

unless we get a torrential downpour, my clippings aren't running off into any kind of storm drain. I do agree with the premise that grassed lawns aren't that 'considerate' of the environment but I at least try and go pretty minimal with our current lot (I don't have the freedom to do something less mainstream here): bermuda grass that I think I've only watered 3 times in the past 2 years and no chemical weedkiller or highly chemical fertilizer, just milorganite. /shrug

10/28/2014 8:57:23 PM

stop planting grass and contributing to useless monocultures

10/28/2014 9:00:06 PM

I was exaggerating about the clippings. My mower is a mulcher.

^^and it doesn't matter if the fertilizer isn't highly chemical, iirc nutrients are one of the top 3 or so polllutants in NC water bodies (sediment is first)

10/29/2014 10:50:04 AM

So did we all come to an agreement that 10am is fine, but 6pm is too late?

10/31/2014 10:43:39 AM

I'd argue 6pm is far more acceptable than 10am.

11/2/2014 7:46:41 PM

^^ if the sun is up...

11/3/2014 10:49:59 AM

10am is far more acceptable than 6pm

6pm is dinner time, you are not supposed to disturb other people during dinner

11/3/2014 10:55:35 AM