I'll take the riding lawnmower if you don't want it...
I would love to convert one to run on batteries, so I could give the finger
to the Oil Producing Nations (you know who you are).
"Terrible Tom" <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote in message
news:<h1247s$fmj$1@bent.twistedbits.net>...
>
> I think I've lost it. The drive, the ambition, the insane goals of
> overhauling a 4x4 in less
> than a week. Whats happened to me?
>
> I've become consumed with lawn care, yard work, home remodeling
> projects... paying off bills
> and budgeting every dime.
>
> I bought a riding lawn mower!!! (used, for a good deal however) But for 7
> years I catagorically
> refused to buy one of those because I didn;t want to turn into Mr Jones
> and the green thumb
> bastard from hell, with the perfect felt lawn, snubbing hose nose at
> everone else with
> dandelions in their yard.
>
> What happened to the young rogue screwball doing engine swaps in under a
> week, with no sleep,
> and not knowing what the hell he was getting into? Wha' the hell happened
> to the guy who
> thought he could fix it all with a stick of bubble gun and some bailing
> wire?
>
> I got promoted, I got transfered, I got stuffed in a dead end 9-5... I got
> morgages on homes, I
> got stiffness in mah bones!!
>
> THIS IS BULLSHIT!! Since when did I care about proper lawn
> fertilization!? When did I start
> giving a damn if I had up to date stylish kitchen appliances!!!
>
> Its time I threw off the yolk of suburbian residental slavery and got
> filthy under a truck. I
> need to eat some grease, bust some knuckles... fix an old beater 4x4,CRANK
> SOME TUNES!!! HIT
> THE ROAD!! Get back on the highway!!! Run some compact blue cars off the
> road!!! Drive in
> some mud!!!
>
> You think I've been nuts before?
>
> AH'M JUST GETTIN' WARMED UP!!!!!
>
>
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