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You are talking about people working in a business. I'm talking about neighbors living in rural/suburban areas. EDIT: We have a lawn care guy. He does our h
by lowercased 2y ago
You are talking about people working in a business.
I'm talking about neighbors living in rural/suburban areas.
EDIT: We have a lawn care guy. He does our half acre in under 30 minutes. Our neighbors who do it themselves - same half acre size - typically take 90-120 minutes. They'll just sit on a riding mower and let it idle for minutes, while looking up stuff on their phones. Or let it idle and go inside for a drink, while leaving it running. They enjoy riding around with a loud engine underneath, like a really slow motorcycle. This is not speculation, it's from talking to them.
The business people have an incentive to get in and out quickly - they can do more lawns that way.
The people who like loud engine noise have no such incentive. They have an incentive to have a lazy afternoon of lawn mowing.
- macNchz 2y agoThere’s some overlap as well–I recently had an extended visit in my rural hometown, working by a window overlooking the main street. Something I noticed quickly was that a huge proportion of passing vehicles that happened to be loud enough for me to glance up were actually lawn service pickup trucks with loud, modified exhausts. It also became clear that I’ve been living in the city too long to remember how obnoxious the all-day-every-day drone of lawn equipment is, it sort of blew my mind.
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- trgn 2y agoPeople letting an engine run, just because, they have such a weird quirk of the mind. It's bizarrely common. It's not just out of spite, although for some for sure it may be part of it. It seems out of a weird affection for things that are noisy, under their dominion.