Xmas Came Late For Some of Us
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:06 pm
So I am out riding my bicycle with my dog in tow (she walks faster than I can run) when I came upon my neighbor's Xmas curbside dumpings. 
I happened to catch the wife of the homeowner [edit]ok that is very sexist, women can be homeowners as well[/edit] in the yard and asked her if they were tossing it out. She said she got him a new riding mower and this one had to go. Why a house with less than a 1/4 acre needs a riding mower, hell why said homeowner needed a Troy-bilt mower in the first place are both questions beyond my ken, but whatevs. She didn't mind if I snared it so I came back around with my Jeep and took it home. I had debated doing the old "kid mowing lawns door to door" trick and hooking it to my seatpost, but I love my Kona and didn't want to bugger it up just to get the mower home quicker. Drum roll please: The best part, the oil looked good and with just a little gas it fired up and ran with just a couple pulls on the cord. Seriously, why do people throw these things away, I could sell it now for at least $75 without doing a thing to it.
She also had one of those monster rear-projection TVs on the curb but I don't want to deal with that. I am slowly converting to all plasma (very slowly).
I happened to catch the wife of the homeowner [edit]ok that is very sexist, women can be homeowners as well[/edit] in the yard and asked her if they were tossing it out. She said she got him a new riding mower and this one had to go. Why a house with less than a 1/4 acre needs a riding mower, hell why said homeowner needed a Troy-bilt mower in the first place are both questions beyond my ken, but whatevs. She didn't mind if I snared it so I came back around with my Jeep and took it home. I had debated doing the old "kid mowing lawns door to door" trick and hooking it to my seatpost, but I love my Kona and didn't want to bugger it up just to get the mower home quicker. Drum roll please: The best part, the oil looked good and with just a little gas it fired up and ran with just a couple pulls on the cord. Seriously, why do people throw these things away, I could sell it now for at least $75 without doing a thing to it.
She also had one of those monster rear-projection TVs on the curb but I don't want to deal with that. I am slowly converting to all plasma (very slowly).