Get off of my lawn!!!!

[peeonme]

There is one on every block, every neighborhood, every street. I have lived next-door to old men that can't stand a ball to roll over their grass. I can understand it, it's all they have and they don't want it abused.
However, I found a person that makes all of the lawn freaks pale in comparison.

A new and now former customer took the prize in the loony lawn customers' contest. She followed me around her small, crowded yard like a helicopter, watching my every move. Making sure that not one blade of grass would be neglected. Many new customers are a bit like that, after a few visits they back off knowing that I won't ruin their grass. But not this lady. Nope, on visit three she watched even closer. Then as I paused she grabbed my arm and pulled me to the sidewalk telling me that I could only stand on the grass if I was working on it.

I went to where my payment of $40. was kept (she couldn't hand it to me) under a pillow on her lawn furniture and got my money, loaded up my equipment and left never again to stand on her domain.
What leads a person to be so strange?

 

[unloadonme]

She sounds completely nuts.

 

[Araucaria]

Not knowing her, I'll make a wild guess. Is she elderly and living alone? A lot of times people like that crave human interaction, so they get into anyone's business that comes along-- the lawn maintenance guy, the handyman, the meter reader, the repairman, the postman, etc.-- and she'll follow them around, constantly telling then how to do their job, and getting in their hair to the point of annoyance. But they don't have the social skills to admit they're lonely, not that they have a personality pleasing enough that you'd want to chat with them. If they had the social skills, they'd be out making friends, and not waste their time trying to chat up the garbage man, telling him where and how to and how not to set down her garbage can.

 

[belamyi]

Wasn't she just pissed that not only she can't wrap her lawn in plastic and that it needs maintenance, but that she will not do it herself?

 

[Kahaih]

She probably had the hots for you.

 

[Vannie]

Damn Kids trying to steal my cabbage's!!!

 

[Peloso]

Only forty dollars?

 

[Norri]

A pal of mine once told me to always remember that people are crackers. If I had experienced her inflicting herself on me as you have I’d fall back on crackers.

 

[rareboy]

Mental illness is a hard taskmaster for so many.

I once had to deal with someone who was so neurotic that when her husband died I could only think he did it to finally escape.

 

[belamyi]

A pal of mine once told me to always remember that people are crackers.

Only in crackerland.

 

[peeonme]

Honestly, folks that act that way come in all varieties. I have some that I enjoy chewing the fat with and others that I hope are not around when I cut their grass.
This lawn normally would take about 1/2 an hour and is 5 minutes from me so $40. is good money as I aim at $60. per hour. But when I am constantly interrupted and have to turn off my equipment it takes twice as long. The worst thing is that they stay in my head for the rest of the day.

 

[peeonme]

She probably had the hots for you.

She has a G.F.