Today a guy with a mower waved at me.

[Conquiztador]

I was out and about and my neighbour waved at me while he was mowing his lawn. Probable reason was that he felt that we connected as I was mowing my lawn too. When I was done I parked my ancient B&S, grabbed two beers and went over for a chat. He showed me his new toy. A Rover mower with electric start. Comes with key for ignition and clearly has hi-tech electronics. His was a nice red.

He did recognise my classic machine thou and told me that he used to have one just the same long time ago. I could see in his eyes that he went down memorylane as he was smiling at the memories.

We chatted about stuff as you do with someone that you connect with. I told him that I was planning to get a bigger and sharper blade for mine. He was impressed.

As I walked back to my mower I felt good. But also a little sad. See, soon I will get one of those ride on mowers. And then I will not be able to wave back at him anymore. But I did not want to tell him this as it would have broken his heart.

[monkeymcbean]

Hmmm...Ive been in the same situation, different toys, i would most likely go to the extent of packing up, selling the house, move somewhere else buy my ride-on, than destroy that moment.

[smoky]

Boredom; the mother of conversation

[MacD]

Just as well it wasn't one of them Iron Horse two-stroke mowers. If you take your hands off the bars to wave with one of those, it'll get away on you!

[Mully]

Was it this bloke??

[stify]

I was out and about and my neighbour waved at me while he was mowing his lawn. Probable reason was that he felt that we connected as I was mowing my lawn too. When I was done I parked my ancient B&S, grabbed two beers and went over for a chat. He showed me his new toy. A Rover mower with electric start. Comes with key for ignition and clearly has hi-tech electronics. His was a nice red.

He did recognise my classic machine thou and told me that he used to have one just the same long time ago. I could see in his eyes that he went down memorylane as he was smiling at the memories.

We chatted about stuff as you do with someone that you connect with. I told him that I was planning to get a bigger and sharper blade for mine. He was impressed.

As I walked back to my mower I felt good. But also a little sad. See, soon I will get one of those ride on mowers. And then I will not be able to wave back at him anymore. But I did not want to tell him this as it would have broken his heart.

my neighbour popped over for a chat after a similar "moment"..but when he saw my austrailan made honda powered machine he just walked off...worst part about it was the fucker took his beers back..bloody rude I thought

[Usarka]

How big were his strips?

[YellowDog]

Well I can really understand and relate to this.

When I ride around on my CT110, I just assume that I am on my Triumph. When I wave at Triumph rider suitable waves, I get quite dissapointed when they don't even acknowledge me.

It could be the 'super cool' and hardly at all embarrasing yellow flag on the back

[soundbeltfarm]

when i was mowing the lawns my neighbour came over to compare breasts.
was like sweet and sour pork . sweet that my neighbour was a bird . sour that i had bigger tits than her.

[Motu]

My old B&S powered Rancher shat itself a couple of months ago,so I had to drag out my brutal Victa 550 Professional to do the job....and now that indestructible never say die mower has had enough....

So I found my mothers old Bolen electric mulching mower tucked away in a corner.I'm pretty dismissive of electric lawnmowers - and just like all the Harley bashers,I've never even used one.So I'm staggered with just how grunty this little thing is,the B&S was useless,just a gutless wonder,and even the mighty Victa had to dig deep sometimes.The Electric thing didn't even slow down as I just pushed it straight through....and it's so light I only used one hand,the other holding the cord.

I don't know if I can live with an electric mower,but it'll give me time to find something else.So,where can I find an electric motorcycle....or will I have to build one?

[Pedrostt500]

My Mower is electric, no body waves at me, though i might record the sound of a real mower and play it on my stereo just to keep in with the in mower crowd.

[soundbeltfarm]

Heres a thought.
has anyone had a 2 stroke mower?
im sure there have been some before.

the farm came with a john deere ride opn and man what a piss of shit.
it is so slow. maybe it is old but my parents finally got one to mow their huge lawn and man their one would drag our one of 3 times over.

[sidecar bob]

Was it this bloke??

Look at those lazy bastards in the process of rendering a species extinct.

[Leyton]

Heres a thought.
has anyone had a 2 stroke mower?

I still have one!!! I don't allow it to die. I can not count the times I have had it apart , 1st set of rings though!!! still going strong. Has to be around 30 years old now and more ?, I should get it carbon dated.

My old nahbours used to give me shit about it being real old :P, It may mow on a slant but it still goes hard!

[crazyhorse]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... you need to get more of an exciting life. It has been reduced to mowers and neighbours LOL. Good on ya getting to know your neighbour