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You're Never Done Mowing · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 99 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:32
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So we have a request of you, our listener, and that is something fun that we can do for episode 100.
• 0:41
  I Hate Talking: 0 cool, because I don't really have any ideas.
• 0:44
  I Hate Talking: Wait, we're asking them what we should do.
• 0:47
  I Hate Talking: Well, yeah, because Do you have any ideas on what we should do for episode 100?
• 0:53
  I Hate Talking: No, all my ideas would take way too long.
• 0:56
  I Hate Talking: Top 100, -- such and -- such.
• 0:58
  I Hate Talking: Top 100.
• 0:59
  I Hate Talking: Just so we could do like a flash of like.
• 1:04
  I Hate Talking: The top words in the last 100 years.
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  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 1:09
  I Hate Talking: But it would have to be like.
• 1:11
  I Hate Talking: A minute per word, less than that.
• 1:13
  I Hate Talking: Oh, yeah, because that would be 100 minutes.
• 1:16
  I Hate Talking: That's probably would be our longest episode ever.
• 1:19
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, let's not do that.
• 1:20
  I Hate Talking: Yes, so you, our listener, can obviously see that we need some help and we need to know some suggestions on what we can do for our 100th episode, which is our next episode.
• 1:31
  I Hate Talking: Because this is episode 99 and you can do that by leaving a comment or if you want to contact us directly, you can send us a text message or an email and let us know.
• 1:45
  I Hate Talking: Sounds good.
• 1:46
  I Hate Talking: And perhaps you want to get some of your friends' help, and you can always do that by Sharing an episode, and perhaps it's even this episode, and you can get their help with perhaps some suggestions as well.
• 2:00
  I Hate Talking: Sounds great.
• 2:01
  I Hate Talking: So we will move on to our word or phrase of this episode and we only have one, so we're not gonna do 100 words or anything like that or 99 words, I suppose, and that word is the word dis dis D I S D I S perhaps, maybe it's D I S S.
• 2:19
  I Hate Talking: So this came up in conversation a week or two ago when somebody used the word dis and one of our kids asked what that meant, and you explained it, but as I was thinking about it to myself after the words, I could not come up with a specific etymology.
• 2:35
  I Hate Talking: So that's why I figured we'd talk about it.
• 2:38
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, first I forgot that incident till you brought it up, and second, I think you probably remember better and you're being kinder to yourself in this retail.
• 2:48
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, retail then.
• 2:50
  I Hate Talking: Well, you said something.
• 2:52
  I Hate Talking: I don't even remember what you said, but it was mean, not kind to me, and I say, why are you dissing me?
• 2:57
  I Hate Talking: And that's when the kids were like, what?
• 2:59
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I suppose so.
• 3:00
  I Hate Talking: And then you gave a brief definition.
• 3:02
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think I said that just means you're being unkind or you're not being, you're not saying something that's nice.
• 3:10
  I Hate Talking: Yes, and I would consider it maybe.
• 3:13
  I Hate Talking: Specifically an insult, where you are.
• 3:17
  I Hate Talking: Dissing someone, so to speak, right, and in my head a diss isn't like outwardly mean, mean.
• 3:23
  I Hate Talking: Like you're trying to hurt the person.
• 3:26
  I Hate Talking: But it's definitely not a compliment.
• 3:29
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 3:31
  I Hate Talking: So I still don't have any idea on the specific etymology and maybe you could guess, but not really coming to any specific conclusions.
• 3:42
  I Hate Talking: So do you have any ideas before we look it up?
• 3:44
  I Hate Talking: Well, but first you did hear the word before, right?
• 3:47
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I'm very familiar with the word.
• 3:49
  I Hate Talking: I did grow up in the 90s.
• 3:50
  I Hate Talking: OK, um, etymology, no, this, I feel like it would be short for like Disagree or disapprove or something like that.
• 4:02
  I Hate Talking: Yes, you're on the right track, which is better than I did.
• 4:05
  I Hate Talking: So, first, the definition of the word dis or dis, because there are spellings with just one S, D I S, and there are also, it looks like less popular spellings of a double S, D I S S.
• 4:19
  I Hate Talking: And it is a slang term meaning to treat someone with disrespect, contempt, or to criticize them.
• 4:27
  I Hate Talking: -- Oh -- yeah, disrespect, there you go.
• 4:29
  I Hate Talking: OK, that's a better word.
• 4:30
  I Hate Talking: Yes, and that is the supposed etymology that it originated as a shortening of the word disrespect or possibly dismiss.
• 4:39
  I Hate Talking: OK, yeah.
• 4:40
  I Hate Talking: So, don't disrespect me, don't.
• 4:42
  I Hate Talking: Dismiss me, don't diss me.
• 4:46
  I Hate Talking: Nice.
• 4:48
  I Hate Talking: You're becoming a rapper now too.
• 4:50
  I Hate Talking: 67.
• 4:52
  I Hate Talking: So, -- it can be used as a -- verb, as well as a noun.
• 4:57
  I Hate Talking: So the examples given here are as a verb, don't diss my car, or a noun, again, the example, a massive diss.
• 5:06
  I Hate Talking: Yep, sounds good.
• 5:09
  I Hate Talking: I know that word, I don't even know how it came up in our conversation, just like popped out of my head.
• 5:15
  I Hate Talking: It was definitely a word I used to say when I was younger, yeah, in the 90s, early 2000s, and So I think even when I said it, I was kind of surprised, like, oh, but that is a good word, cause you weren't being mean, you weren't trying to hurt me.
• 5:31
  I Hate Talking: But you weren't being kind either, so it's like, hey, stop, you're teasing me about something I did wrong.
• 5:38
  I Hate Talking: So, hey, don't do that.
• 5:40
  I Hate Talking: -- There -- you go.
• 5:41
  I Hate Talking: And then in terms of the spelling, either with one S or two S's, according to online etymology.
• 5:49
  I Hate Talking: It says that the original word was spelled with only ones, which would make.
• 5:56
  I Hate Talking: Which would make sense because it's coming from the prefix DIS in terms of disrespect or dismiss, and that was something that emerged in the late 1980s and 1919990s.
• 6:11
  I Hate Talking: And then it seems like they explain that the double S spelling is often considered more standard in modern usage because That way it does not get confused with a particular Usage of just the prefix dis, so like if you're explaining something that If it's not respectful, it's disrespectful, so that would be.
• 6:38
  I Hate Talking: Potentially something to avoid with using the doubles as well as Potentially people pronouncing it as die, D I S, so it's spelled with a double S, so that you know that it's pronounced this.
• 6:52
  I Hate Talking: I have a kindergartner right now, and we're learning about the magic E.
• 6:58
  I Hate Talking: And so he would not approve of pronouncing that dies.
• 7:03
  I Hate Talking: There's no magic E to make the I say its name.
• 7:07
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 7:09
  I Hate Talking: Now there is a Greek god, I guess that is spelled D I S.
• 7:16
  I Hate Talking: In mythology, Dis is the Roman god of the underworld, also known as Pluto.
• 7:20
  I Hate Talking: Dis, so, it is the same, so that would not necessarily lead to confusion unless you are mispronouncing that particular character.
• 7:30
  I Hate Talking: All right, so that is our word or phrase of the episode.
• 7:33
  I Hate Talking: Yes.
• 7:35
  I Hate Talking: All right.
• 7:35
  I Hate Talking: So now we'll move on to some topics, perhaps of what is going on in either a disrespectful or respectful manner.
• 7:45
  I Hate Talking: Which path will we choose for the rest of this episode?
• 7:48
  I Hate Talking: Respectful.
• 7:50
  I Hate Talking: OK, -- there -- you go.
• 7:51
  I Hate Talking: -- Did you have an idea for -- both?
• 7:53
  I Hate Talking: No, I did not.
• 7:54
  I Hate Talking: Oh, OK.
• 7:55
  I Hate Talking: -- So we did just finish -- mowing.
• 7:59
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, in our new house, in our new house.
• 8:03
  I Hate Talking: So in our previous house, the yard was much larger and was in a particular climate zone where the grass was probably.
• 8:15
  I Hate Talking: Thicker and more, I don't know what you would call it, bluegrass, I guess is maybe even the kind of grass it was.
• 8:22
  I Hate Talking: So we had a right.
• 8:26
  I Hate Talking: So we had a riding mower for that and that riding mower.
• 8:30
  I Hate Talking: Stayed Back and that was not something that we moved, so we had to purchase a new mower and because our yard at our new house is relatively smaller than that, we have purchased a push mower.
• 8:45
  I Hate Talking: Love gas powered devices, but.
• 8:47
  I Hate Talking: In order so that we could have the kids start doing some of the mowing, we have opted to buy a battery-powered mower.
• 8:55
  I Hate Talking: Right, first I'm getting the envision of, cause again, we live in suburbia now.
• 9:00
  I Hate Talking: Um, and Picturing you on like the riding lawnmower would be ridiculous.
• 9:08
  I Hate Talking: I don't even think you do like one swoop of the front, and then you'd have to run out, right?
• 9:13
  I Hate Talking: Like you wouldn't be able to get that close to.
• 9:15
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it would be, yes, it would not be very practical, unless you had like maybe a small rider zero turn, but yeah, it would be, you would not really be able to use a tractor mower very effectively.
• 9:27
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, our kids didn't get much use in the past.
• 9:32
  I Hate Talking: Our oldest did mow a little bit.
• 9:35
  I Hate Talking: Back home, but it wasn't something he enjoyed, and nor was it practical, cause there's only one part of the ground you thought was safe for him, because uh we do have like rolling hills and stuff, and so you have to know that, so you don't tip it well.
• 9:48
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 9:49
  I Hate Talking: The previous home had very hilly terrain, a lot of roots and things because of the hills or ways that you had to sort of Angle the mower so that you didn't hit the blades on the actual ground, which I learned that the first time I mowed there 7 years ago, I guess.
• 10:07
  I Hate Talking: -- 8 -- years ago, yeah, 8 summers.
• 10:10
  I Hate Talking: You had the lawnmower for 8 summers.
• 10:13
  I Hate Talking: -- There -- you go.
• 10:13
  I Hate Talking: You can do a before and after picture of me mowing.
• 10:15
  I Hate Talking: Then house and today at our new house.
• 10:19
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it'll be very different pictures.
• 10:22
  I Hate Talking: On many accounts.
• 10:24
  I Hate Talking: So yeah, so I know you really enjoyed at the time driving lawnmower.
• 10:29
  I Hate Talking: But that took all day.
• 10:32
  I Hate Talking: It was like every other week you had to do it, and it was an entire day's event to properly care for that yard.
• 10:40
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 10:40
  I Hate Talking: It did take quite a bit of time, and it was not every other week, all year round, but maybe 8 months out of the year, probably during the spring, summer, fall months.
• 10:51
  I Hate Talking: Right, so you've been, our neighbors have been getting out and mowing, and so you've been starting to stress.
• 10:57
  I Hate Talking: Cause it's just been the last week that any grass greenery has popped up in our area.
• 11:02
  I Hate Talking: So explain to me and to other people listening, what this phenomenon is, cause you keep being like they're mowing and so and so's mowing now and so and so's mowing.
• 11:12
  I Hate Talking: Like who cares?
• 11:14
  I Hate Talking: So, it didn't look great as there's little patches of green popping up here and there, but also, I guess cause I grew up in the desert, that doesn't bother me to see little patches here and there kind of thing.
• 11:26
  I Hate Talking: So tell me why this bothered you so much.
• 11:29
  I Hate Talking: Well, it is not necessarily a bother, but there definitely is some social pressure, I think, particularly, probably for men as head of household in suburbia.
• 11:41
  I Hate Talking: That you need to have a well kept lawn, and you certainly do not want to be the worst lawn on the block.
• 11:49
  I Hate Talking: So, I think it was 2 weeks ago, we heard some people mowing and I was like, wow, it's starting already.
• 11:55
  I Hate Talking: And then some more people were mowing last weekend and then like everybody.
• 12:01
  I Hate Talking: In the visual vicinity of our house mowed yesterday.
• 12:05
  I Hate Talking: That was it.
• 12:06
  I Hate Talking: We had to mow because otherwise our house was literally going to be the worst kept house on the block.
• 12:13
  I Hate Talking: I guess so.
• 12:14
  I Hate Talking: So I had to Amazon Prime.
• 12:17
  I Hate Talking: The mower.
• 12:18
  I Hate Talking: You didn't have to.
• 12:19
  I Hate Talking: I didn't, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure I had to.
• 12:22
  I Hate Talking: It was a requirement.
• 12:23
  I Hate Talking: I did.
• 12:24
  I Hate Talking: So that arrived today and immediately like didn't even do anything else.
• 12:32
  I Hate Talking: We got home from where we were.
• 12:35
  I Hate Talking: The delivery was waiting and that was the very first thing that I did was unpack that, set it up, and begin mowing.
• 12:40
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, OK, and also, it just shows how little I know of this world or how much it's changed since I did have to mow in the past, you know, when I was like, Teen or Early marriages or whatnot, because this lawnmower first is electric, I didn't know that was a thing, and second, it is so light.
• 13:02
  I Hate Talking: Like I remember having to mow and that thing was so big and took all my power.
• 13:08
  I Hate Talking: To push and direct, like if you had to turn it around, it was like, OK, here we go.
• 13:14
  I Hate Talking: Or this was like, oh, just pick it up and move it.
• 13:16
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, probably the battery is the heaviest thing in it.
• 13:19
  I Hate Talking: So it is very light, easy to maneuver.
• 13:22
  I Hate Talking: It's also very easy to start.
• 13:23
  I Hate Talking: You just press and hold your start button and then pull the bar, and then it's running.
• 13:29
  I Hate Talking: So that makes it pretty easy.
• 13:30
  I Hate Talking: -- So -- is this a new thing or?
• 13:35
  I Hate Talking: Do we just not know cause the same thing, a couple of years ago, we bought an electric power washer, and that changed my life because I was like, oh, I can just push, plug it in, push the button.
• 13:47
  I Hate Talking: Where before we had another power washer and I just couldn't get it started.
• 13:52
  I Hate Talking: I feel like the same thing when mowing.
• 13:55
  I Hate Talking: I struggled so hard.
• 13:56
  I Hate Talking: To start it when it was gas powered.
• 14:00
  I Hate Talking: So is this just in the last 5 years, decade, or has this been around and I just didn't know about it?
• 14:08
  I Hate Talking: Um, it's probably been around maybe for 10 to 15 years, but I think the technology has greatly improved over the last 5 years or so, because when they first had electric.
• 14:19
  I Hate Talking: Lawn care equipment, the batteries would run out very quickly or were not reliable, but I think with some of the modern day battery production processes that now they are much more powerful and long lasting.
• 14:35
  I Hate Talking: So I think they've become more popular because of that, and I think they are popular in our area because pretty much.
• 14:42
  I Hate Talking: I've only seen one gas-powered mower out of everybody that has been mowing over the last two weeks.
• 14:47
  I Hate Talking: Is that what motivated you to get this one?
• 14:49
  I Hate Talking: No, the motivation was the fact so that I don't have to do it, so the kids can do it.
• 14:54
  I Hate Talking: The kids can do it.
• 14:55
  I Hate Talking: So I do think that it is a bit safer as well.
• 15:00
  I Hate Talking: You don't have as many moving parts.
• 15:02
  I Hate Talking: You don't have quite the power because that is one of the drawbacks of battery-powered devices is that.
• 15:10
  I Hate Talking: Although the power washer is easier to use, and this particular mower is easier to use, but it doesn't quite have the same power as a gas-powered device.
• 15:20
  I Hate Talking: So, but then you don't have to worry about storing gasoline, and pouring it.
• 15:26
  I Hate Talking: That's true, and that probably is what gave some issues with our gas-powered power washer because I think it had some old gas that was put in it at some point and that made it difficult to start and did not run as well after that.
• 15:38
  I Hate Talking: And then one thing for the neighborhood, and maybe it will be a few things in the future, but I.
• 15:45
  I Hate Talking: I was pretty confident, like, oh, I bet there's like a mower guy, a lawn guy that comes and does a bunch of people, and then we can just kind of jump on to their, while they're here, here's some cash also and do our yard as well.
• 16:01
  I Hate Talking: But yeah, like you said, everyone seemed to have done it themselves.
• 16:05
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I have not seen any mowing services.
• 16:08
  I Hate Talking: -- Everybody seems to do it themselves -- when we lived.
• 16:11
  I Hate Talking: Um, in a neighborhood a decade ago ago, we all pretty much use the same guy.
• 16:17
  I Hate Talking: He just did our whole cul-de-sac, and it was very inexpensive relatively, cause he just was there that Saturday and just did everyone's life, and it was probably easier for him because he He didn't really worry about the lines of the property lines.
• 16:34
  I Hate Talking: He just mowed all our yards, and it looked good cause it was all cohesive and Easy for us.
• 16:39
  I Hate Talking: He'd come down once a month and knock on our door for money, and it was done.
• 16:44
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 16:45
  I Hate Talking: May also be West Coast, East Coast thing.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: Not sure.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: Maybe that's true, but I do like the idea of getting our kids to do this.
• 16:51
  I Hate Talking: I don't, they're not as excited.
• 16:54
  I Hate Talking: I think they were more excited about the riding lawnmower.
• 16:58
  I Hate Talking: Cause that's like driving.
• 17:01
  I Hate Talking: And this, they're just like, wait, so now I have to push this thing.
• 17:06
  I Hate Talking: Outside I guess.
• 17:10
  I Hate Talking: I mean, I push mode with a gas-powered device when I was a kid, like 1 acre, and this is not even anywhere near 1 acre, so yeah, they'll they'll get used to it.
• 17:20
  I Hate Talking: It's just another job they have to do that they.
• 17:22
  I Hate Talking: Yep, so 2 of them did mow today and did a Substantial part of the yard, not all of it, but took turns doing that.
• 17:32
  I Hate Talking: And then the little, littlest one tried it for a little bit and then realized that probably he needs a bit more height and strength to do it effectively.
• 17:41
  I Hate Talking: OK, also, how quiet it is.
• 17:43
  I Hate Talking: It's shockingly quiet.
• 17:45
  I Hate Talking: So that's true.
• 17:46
  I Hate Talking: You probably should still wear ear protection, but we did not because it is relatively quiet.
• 17:52
  I Hate Talking: So one of our kids, I think would really get into this, and I want you to teach them eventually, but I didn't want to push my luck today.
• 17:58
  I Hate Talking: I love the crisscross yards, when the, um, and I think that he would, he's very meticulous, and I think that he would really.
• 18:08
  I Hate Talking: Do a good job.
• 18:10
  I Hate Talking: We teach him how to do the crisscross lawn.
• 18:12
  I Hate Talking: Or does that look weird next to all our other neighbors who just do straight across?
• 18:17
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it may look a little bit odd.
• 18:19
  I Hate Talking: We'll have to drive around and see if anybody's doing crisscross, but it seemed like everybody was doing.
• 18:23
  I Hate Talking: Horizontal lines.
• 18:26
  I Hate Talking: There's somebody who doesn't even have real grass.
• 18:28
  I Hate Talking: I haven't seen that.
• 18:29
  I Hate Talking: I would judge them.
• 18:30
  I Hate Talking: Mhm mhm.
• 18:31
  I Hate Talking: I saw them.
• 18:32
  I Hate Talking: I didn't judge them.
• 18:34
  I Hate Talking: I was like, Oh, that's smart.
• 18:35
  I Hate Talking: -- Are -- they?
• 18:35
  I Hate Talking: Can you see them from our front porch?
• 18:37
  I Hate Talking: No, you can't.
• 18:37
  I Hate Talking: OK, so further down the line, yeah, I, I saw it in one of our neighborhood walks.
• 18:42
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 18:42
  I Hate Talking: So they did some mowing and that was successful.
• 18:47
  I Hate Talking: So, hopefully, in the near future, perhaps I will only do the edging and then they can do the actual mowing.
• 18:55
  I Hate Talking: How do you feel about that?
• 18:56
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I'm happy to impart some duties and responsibilities to them so that they can be productive adults.
• 19:05
  I Hate Talking: But I do enjoy mowing.
• 19:07
  I Hate Talking: It is sort of therapeutic.
• 19:10
  I Hate Talking: So, I did it today.
• 19:12
  I Hate Talking: May have a little bit more to do because the battery died because it was the very first charge, so it was not fully charged.
• 19:17
  I Hate Talking: I do enjoy mowing maybe like the 1st and 2nd time.
• 19:20
  I Hate Talking: And then Of the season and then after that it sort of becomes more of a chore.
• 19:25
  I Hate Talking: But you didn't enjoy it today, right?
• 19:27
  I Hate Talking: Was it just because you weren't prepared, like you felt sprung on and forced to do this today?
• 19:33
  I Hate Talking: Um, perhaps I was a bit hopeful that the kids would do it and take a sense of pride in it, and -- they did pretty good -- walk around with a poppy soda behind them and Hear them on.
• 19:45
  I Hate Talking: Yes, that was my intent.
• 19:46
  I Hate Talking: So it didn't quite work out that way, but they did a substantial part of it, so I was pleased.
• 19:51
  I Hate Talking: It was also kind of sprung on them too.
• 19:54
  I Hate Talking: Like, hey, tomorrow, yeah, well, I mean, I gave him a day's warning.
• 19:58
  I Hate Talking: I did.
• 19:59
  I Hate Talking: As soon as I placed the order, I was like, this is what you're going to be doing tomorrow.
• 20:03
  I Hate Talking: So they did have a bit of warning.
• 20:05
  I Hate Talking: And then my dad has a quote that relates to mowing, and this is actually what he wants written on his tombstone.
• 20:11
  I Hate Talking: So he wants his name and years of life, and then a quote underneath that that says, You're never done mowing.
• 20:18
  I Hate Talking: So, I don't know what it is about mowing in either our family or in America, life in general, but it is seemed to be a key part of our cultural experience.
• 20:30
  I Hate Talking: Do you, when you remember back to your childhood, cause you were saying that you were young, mowing.
• 20:35
  I Hate Talking: Would he mow part of it too, or did he supervise you?
• 20:39
  I Hate Talking: Or was that just a couple of years of his life where he didn't have to mow?
• 20:44
  I Hate Talking: I believe that he did a lot of the weed whacking and edging with some of those, perhaps a little bit more dangerous lawn care equipment type devices.
• 20:54
  I Hate Talking: And yeah, I would do push mowing with a gas mower and at some point graduated to a riding mower.
• 21:01
  I Hate Talking: And I do remember certain houses that we lived at where perhaps there was a little bit of a hill or complex turns and things that you had to do that perhaps he would do and I would do more of the flat straight areas.
• 21:13
  I Hate Talking: So, I think we separated the duties similar to how I described.
• 21:18
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps we will separate the duties for our kids.
• 21:20
  I Hate Talking: Oh, there you go, full circle.
• 21:22
  I Hate Talking: Is it a good workout still, because that's what they say, right?
• 21:26
  I Hate Talking: Mowing is a good workout, but since it's not so heavy, just taking a walk physically exerting yourself, but I mean, it's more than a walk because you're still pushing, you're maneuvering the mower.
• 21:37
  I Hate Talking: Is it like when we used to walk with the stroller with the babies?
• 21:40
  I Hate Talking: -- It's probably as heavy or less than that -- heavy, maybe for an adult, but yeah, it's gonna be a workout for a kid.
• 21:46
  I Hate Talking: OK, yeah.
• 21:47
  I Hate Talking: Yes, and then even with the riding mower at our previous property, it was still quite a bit of work because you had to do all the weed whacking, which that was a, probably took just as long as riding the riding mower portion.
• 21:59
  I Hate Talking: This will, I think, in All different aspects probably be an easier mowing experience at our new property.
• 22:07
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, and I think for you overall, it's gonna be better.
• 22:10
  I Hate Talking: Or maybe better is not the right word, but less of an obligation, because the kids can do it, I can do it.
• 22:19
  I Hate Talking: I never drove the riding lawnmower.
• 22:23
  I Hate Talking: Uh, we talked about it before, but I never.
• 22:27
  I Hate Talking: Want to just cause it scared me because, I mean, at some points you are slanted and it's just so scary to watch you like you're on a tip.
• 22:37
  I Hate Talking: We did not have to keep up with it perfectly, if you were traveling or anything like that, because we didn't have that many people down our streets.
• 22:46
  I Hate Talking: We now have, live in a neighborhood where people see our street constantly, sometimes only the Amazon driver who saw our road.
• 22:55
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 22:56
  I Hate Talking: And that is true that I did most of the riding mower work because it was a bit dangerous with the.
• 23:03
  I Hate Talking: Amount of hills that we had because I've never actually tipped it, but I have been on two wheels and had to steer to avoid tipping it, where you have to sort of grab onto the fender and sort of lean over so that your weight is distributed properly so that you don't tip it.
• 23:17
  I Hate Talking: While you're, so you're holding on with the fender with one hand and steering with the other and pressing the gas and everything and trying to stay on the straight line.
• 23:24
  I Hate Talking: So that area at the very front was Somewhat difficult.
• 23:29
  I Hate Talking: OK, here's another question I don't think I've ever asked you.
• 23:32
  I Hate Talking: When we moved to the country, our last home.
• 23:35
  I Hate Talking: You traveled a lot back then for work, and we did not have a riding lawnmower, cause once again, We hired someone at our previous place to do our yard.
• 23:47
  I Hate Talking: We had it done once when we moved in.
• 23:50
  I Hate Talking: And then it was several weeks later, and you know, we kept saying we need to buy one, but like, we were just moving in, life was crazy busy, you were traveling a ton, neighbor mowed it for us.
• 24:01
  I Hate Talking: And at the time, we didn't know who he was, I was kind of scared, like, do I go out there and pay him or What is he like, does he, how do, like, I don't, yeah, I just didn't know, cause he just showed up and started mowing.
• 24:13
  I Hate Talking: I'd never seen him before in my life.
• 24:15
  I Hate Talking: Later I found out he was a neighbor who knew that we needed it, and we just moved in was kind.
• 24:20
  I Hate Talking: Did that bother you or were you thankful?
• 24:24
  I Hate Talking: A little bit of both, yes, -- I would have -- like a little bit embarrassed.
• 24:28
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, a little bit embarrassed that Somebody else had to take care of my particular responsibility, but I was thankful that they did because, yeah, it was not possible for us to take care of that responsibility because of traveling and not having the proper equipment at that particular time.
• 24:44
  I Hate Talking: So -- that is -- true.
• 24:46
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, a sweet guy.
• 24:48
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 24:48
  I Hate Talking: Yes, he told his wife told me later that, cause I wasn't sure what to do, and I text you cause you were gone, and you were like, just leave him some water on the front steps and just Do that, and that way you can acknowledge I've seen you, thank you, or whatever, and we'll go from there.
• 25:08
  I Hate Talking: So I did that, and I guess he told his wife afterwards, like, I think I really scared her, or made her uncomfortable.
• 25:13
  I Hate Talking: I was like, oh no, I didn't mean to, and then about several months later, I was outside with my kids, and I had earbuds in.
• 25:21
  I Hate Talking: I was listening to like a story, and he came up to say something and I screamed.
• 25:26
  I Hate Talking: Like I panicked, and he was like, I'm so sorry, I'm, it's just me.
• 25:31
  I Hate Talking: And ever since then I've always been a little embarrassed around him, like, oh man, he thinks I'm such a jumpy, scared person that he's always been so nice, but I'm like, oh man, I did not make a good impression.
• 25:46
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 25:48
  I Hate Talking: And I almost asked our next door neighbor, as he was mowing yesterday and we were outside, if I could borrow his mower and mow my lawn because that's how much the social pressure is.
• 25:56
  I Hate Talking: No way.
• 25:57
  I Hate Talking: I did think about that, which is not something that I would like to do, but the thought did cross my mind.
• 26:02
  I Hate Talking: I almost did it, maybe 40% chance that I was going to do that.
• 26:06
  I Hate Talking: But it said I overnighted our new mower.
• 26:11
  I Hate Talking: But what if he would have said, let me just do it for you?
• 26:13
  I Hate Talking: See, that is actually, that is actually one of the main reasons that I did not ask him because He may have offered to do that, and I would have felt bad.
• 26:23
  I Hate Talking: So that was actually one of the reasons that I did not ask that.
• 26:26
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I'm sort of glad you didn't, because I feel like, I mean, this is just me spiraling, but then I'm like, oh, next time he mows, he's gonna be like, well, I need to mow his side too, to like help them out.
• 26:36
  I Hate Talking: He's he's very nice.
• 26:39
  I Hate Talking: I like our neighbors.
• 26:39
  I Hate Talking: All our neighbors are so nice.
• 26:41
  I Hate Talking: I'm really liking them.
• 26:42
  I Hate Talking: We'll get used to it.
• 26:43
  I Hate Talking: It's a different culture.
• 26:45
  I Hate Talking: It's a different.
• 26:46
  I Hate Talking: Community than we've ever been part of, so we'll figure it out.
• 26:51
  I Hate Talking: Indeed, and Amazon one day.
• 26:54
  I Hate Talking: I mean, that's insane.
• 26:55
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 26:56
  I Hate Talking: That didn't used to be a thing.
• 26:58
  I Hate Talking: You'd be ordering your mower and waiting 6 to 8 weeks.
• 27:01
  I Hate Talking: Now you can get a delivery estimate down to the hour.
• 27:06
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, just like 8 hours later.
• 27:09
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 27:09
  I Hate Talking: Indeed.
• 27:11
  I Hate Talking: So, just a reminder, you, a listener, can give us some suggestions on potentially what we can do for our 100th episode, and you can like, share, subscribe, leave a comment, send us an email, send us a text, let us know, and share with a friend if perhaps they have some suggestions as well.
• 27:28
  I Hate Talking: Sounds good.
• 27:29
  I Hate Talking: From your friends at I Hate Talking.
• 27:31
  I Hate Talking: Until next time, remember, you're never done mowing.