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Robot lawnmower.. Damn
It's like an outdoor Roomba. Very common in Europe, nothing special at all.
"nothing special at all" he says...
I grew up using a push mower.
So did I. Now I am old, and will enjoy the modern world.
Until the robot hits a cat turd you could have seen.
I mean, good for you and your good luck in finances. This isn't something we can all afford, though. A lot of my neighbors used rusty reel mowers growing up. Even the gas variants were out of reach.
My daughter has two reel mowers. (She had one, and I gave her mine.)
They don't get used much though, it's more for nostalgia along with my scythe.
I'm imagining that you have a grim reaper outfit to go along with that scythe. And that you do your lawns at night.
Where are you from? Gas and electric mowers are the standard everywhere I've lived here in Canada.
Special if it works, the damn wire needs to be redone completely each spring because it somehow breaks somewhere.
In 1980?
"used to" is past tense, good job
I feel like this can't possibly be true... The cheapest one I can find is $650. Like, these are not affordable for most folks.
Calculate out how much time you spend mowing. Even at a pathetic minimum wage like 7.50/h, it's still pretty easy to make the calculation make sense.
You say that like Europe isn't comprised of like 50 countries and near a billion people
Iโm from the UK and Iโve never seen an automatic lawnmower unless it was on tv
But all the EU countries got one for christm... Oh....
Lawn mover!