A Homeowner Demanded Her Wet Grass Be Mowed After Being Explicitly Warned—Now Her Ruined Lawn Is an Eyesore for the Whole Neighborhood
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Some jobs get harder when customers insist that weather should stop mattering.
During a rainy stretch, one lawn-care customer grows impatient and demands his soggy yard be mowed immediately.
Against better judgment, the teenager does exactly what he is told and leaves behind a lawn that only gets stranger as it dries.
Check out how it went down.
Mow your lawn wet? Okay, enjoy the look when it dries.
I had a pretty successful lawn mowing hustle in high school, with enough regulars for a decent income.
Sometimes, it just rains every inconvenient day, and lawns get longer and longer.
Most customers understand that they need to be patient and wait until it’s dry enough to mow, but not this one guy.
He was on the cutting edge of impatience, and in a ‘mowment’ of dullness, he insisted I come and “deal with this” because it was too long, even though it had continued to rain even on the same day.
He tried to warn the guy, but he wouldn’t listen.
I told him this was not going to go well, but he insisted, so I got out there and did the best I could, with wet, soggy grass clumping up all over the place.
If you know anything about this, you know that mowing thick, wet grass with a push mower tends to just lay the grass over and not really cut it, so you can imagine what it looked like after two dry days.
The house was on a busy corner of the neighborhood, so until I could get there a week later, it looked like a troop of drunken monkeys had attacked his lawn with scissors.
It looked much worse than if he’d just waited until it was dry.
The only thing I felt bad about was that everyone knew that was my work, so I made sure to make it look super nice as soon as I could do it properly.
Yikes! Bet the guy didn’t do that again.
Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit relate to this story.
This reader mentions the constant rain in the Pacific Northwest.
Perhaps he did.
This reader brings all the puns.
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The point is there, but it doesn’t seem like that’s what happened here.
OP warned the customer that mowing wet grass would turn out badly, but the man insisted and got exactly what he requested.
Once the lawn dried, the uneven patches looked awful enough that OP hurried back later to fix everything properly.
Turns out grass has its own way of saying “I told you so.”
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