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12 November 2006

Gaaaahhhhh! My neighbor has been using a leafblower for the past 2+ hours. It's Sunday, and it's raining, and the leaves are wet, so it's taking forever, and the noise is making my head hurt. The leaves were dry yesterday, and I had to get up early yesterday, but, nooooo, he has to be noisy today.

post by: theora55 at: 12:51 | 8 comments

thanks. I needed to vent. Now I need revenge ideas. Like playing the Carpenters really loud, or ...

posted by theora55 12 November | 12:53

My neighbors have been driving me insane with the leaf blowing lately. Of course, I'm sure they all HATE that I didn't blow or rake my leaves but instead just mowed (mulching attachment) right over them.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 12 November | 12:55

I empathise, theora55, my neighbours have been having major renovations done for the last month, and there's no let up on Sundays. Today they were having their wooden floors re-sanded. I'm in a small block of 4 flats, so there's no getting away from the noise.

posted by essexjan 12 November | 12:56

Put a big sign in the window that says:
YOU BLOW

posted by ethylene 12 November | 13:08

Good thing about early snow cover: nobody out leaf-blowing leaves.

Bad thing about early snow cover: the ones who are out with their gas-fired leaf blowers to clear half a cm of snow off their walks.

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How quickly they forget.

posted by hangashore 12 November | 13:17

And rakes, hangashore — DOESN'T ANYBODY OWN A FUCKING RAKE ANYMORE??!!
Thanks, I'm better now.

posted by rob511 12 November | 18:09

My neighbors seem to be intent on using a saw every day after I arrive home from work. For hours.

posted by redvixen 12 November | 19:21

I hate leaf blowers but there's no way I could get the leaves done without one. Four properties here and one of them has a silver maple that just sheds. You think it's done and it comes up with another inch.

I hate using a combustion engine for this, and the noise is awful. Electric ones are almost all quieter, but of course you need a cord. If somebody could solve this ... they might make a gajillion dollars.

posted by stilicho 13 November | 01:07

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