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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 196 points 5 days ago (10 children)

You're having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren't kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren't doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.

Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I though for sure this would end in the hell in a cell copy pasta.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (8 children)
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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 105 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I'd choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Even electric blowers are extremely loud. I have both varieties, and both require ear protection for extended use.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

This comment is magic lol

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Well I ain't gonna get down on my knees and blow them myself

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And that's why I'm leafing you!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Why don't you make like a tree, and get out of here?

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[–] bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 17 points 5 days ago

"they must not be scattered, mess is the mind killer"

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I just got a 765cfm battery-powered leaf blower and...

...it's so much fun. Mindlessly entertaining. I don't even care if I just blow the leaves back and forth, it's just...weirdly fun.

Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You're welcome to come blow my yard whenever you want some free entertainment. I even have two different leaf blowers you can choose from! One is a two-stroke backpack dealio, and the other is a hand-held electric jobbie.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.

Hey, this guy knows my ex-wife. tugs collar

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is her number still 867-5309?

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

Either the boss said he had to do it, our his homelife is so bad, that blowing leaves is an improvement.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 days ago (7 children)

One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are they ex military? Are they an ASVAB waiver? Did they used to get told to mop up the rain too?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah we saw one of our neighbors watering the storm drain. But also recently she drove from her driveway to ours - literally got in her car, backed out the driveway then immediate turn into ours, to come ask a question. Then got back in her car, backed out of our driveway and immediate turn into hers. So I think she is just crazy.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably to hose off sentiment run off

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I once inquired about this very practice. I've been told it's because:

  • Water restrictions are generally lifted when it rains
  • Easy rinse/prepped surface

That all make sense to me if these idiots had a pressure washer, but its always a normal hose with a nozzle..

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I really hate leaf blowers.

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[–] Teppichbrand 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My neighbor will blow them into my driveway (which is higher than his so it's a never ending battle) and then he'll walk between my house and the house on his other side blowing leaves to the other side of the street. He wastes so much gas every day, I would find it funny if it weren't infuriating. Like, who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore

Gas blowers are about half the purchase price. And in this 'first thing I looked up' match up, are slightly better speced and higher rated.

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Are you in IL? I just saw my neighbor doing that, but he has dementia. I think there are to many people who want a manicured lawn. Personally I don't see why so many people like that.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

if I ever live somewhere with a garden, I'm ripping out the grass and planting a dandelawn.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or moss!

Moss is cool too!

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly, it's just fun to blow leaves or snow. It's a mindless puttering activity that lets you improve your home area and be mildly active.

Unfortunately what happens is people's general tendency to think about themselves and nobody else. So they're self-satisfied in their reasons for being out there, not thinking about the dude next door that works nights and can't sleep, and even his construction-grade noise headphones don't help. Or the dude that just wants to listen to jazz quietly.

The leaf blower people are well-meaning people with mild mental illness who are just selfish enough not to realize their home/self care is annoying others. e: A lot of times the guy just needs to get the F away from their spouse. I've lived near leaf blower people and they're invariably older married (sometimes retired) men. Never women.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Plus, you can leave it in awkward places as a trap!

doinggg!!!

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[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As it happens, it's about 10 C (50 F) near me and raining, and I did actually think about using my leaf blower for a very specific purpose: blowing the leaves clear of the road gutters.

I saw outside my window that the autumn leaves formed a dam in the gutter, impounding an amount of water which started diverting onto the asphalt and the sidewalk. From what little I know about road construction, water intrusion is the greater enemy so I didn't want to let the small pond sit there.

In the end, I just picked the leaves up by hand to remove the obstruction. But if I had a lot more streetfront, leaf blower would be the first tool to come to mind. But it would take no more than 10 minutes total.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I like using leaf blower, don't like listening to leaf blower.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower.

One does not simply blow wet leaves with a leaf blower. It is folly.

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I once thought so, but in my experience with maples and fir needles it works really well. Much easier than raking for wet stuff. Of course, the correct way is to wait until all of the leaves have fallen (enjoy Autumn to its fullest) and then round them up once for the whole season. Every week or two is why everyone hates leaf blowers.

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[–] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I had a neighbor for a while that ran his gas blower for a couple hours EVERY DAY. I think he had some sort of PTSD trauma and it soothed him.

He also dug holes in his backyard to bury leaves. Quite a ….. character.

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Um leafblowers are portable jets and just as fun as an air-compressor.

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