Mowvember nights
On my way home, one night last week, I saw a guy riding a bike with a lawnmower strapped to the back, just behind the seat. It was one of those no-motor, hand pushed, lots of quite sharp exposed blades type mowers.
I now understand why people need camera phones. If my phone could take pictures then right now you would be looking at a picture of a guy with nothing between him and disaster but a thin layer of lycra with a caption of the “place your bets on how long it will be before this ends really badly?” variety.
Does anyone have a theory on what exactly motivated this guy to take his lawnmower for a ride?
Anyone?
I now understand why people need camera phones. If my phone could take pictures then right now you would be looking at a picture of a guy with nothing between him and disaster but a thin layer of lycra with a caption of the “place your bets on how long it will be before this ends really badly?” variety.
Does anyone have a theory on what exactly motivated this guy to take his lawnmower for a ride?
Anyone?
posted by I'm not Craig at 11:10 PM
8 Comments:
Perhaps he's a really environmentally friendly sort and has no car. He may not like urning the fossial fuels too much. I would explain the antiquated manual lawnmower with all those blades. It may be a new acquisition or one gained from a a colleague who has upgraded to a 2-stroke model. so how does he get it all the way home? Attaches to the push bike! Bizarre on many levels, I know, but a guess at the circumstances.
Well, he'd hardly mow the asphalt, would he?
Maybe he figured that, of the two more ridiculous sights, a lawnmower attached to the bike was preferable to a bloke in lycra pushing a lawnmower down the street for 15 kilometres.
Of course, it is Mowvember.. ;) other than that, perhaps drugs? ;)
he was moving it from point a to point b. it's obvious. i knew someone who once moved a fridge, on a trolley, along some streets through fitzroy, and up to carlton, because he couldn't be botherered/or didn't want to pay for a removalist. he figured he could do it himself. took him three hours.
Melbournegirl,
Oh my god do you know Mr Fix?
Kidding.
Although he did walk our fridge five blocks through Carlton.
GW
INCraig,
This is what happens when you DON'T choose an environmentally friendly option:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/man-loses-foot-in-mower-accident/2006/11/22/1163871454395.html
Watershedd, Gigglewick, Snoskred, MG, Gigglewick & Gigglewick
Thanks to all of you for making a half baked attempt at a post far more interesting.
GW, his real name was mike.
but it was more than 5 blocks, i'm sure. even accounting for my famed exaggeration when retelling stories, i'm SURE it was more than 5.
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