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Points2Ponder
By Alan P.
Scaglone
In an age when we don’t really know
our neighbors…
People move in and move out—all we
know is the car they drive and sometimes, the music they listen to the loudest!
But know our neighbors? Gone is the
day when you trade recipes across the fence or share cook outs with your
closest neighbors.
No longer do we tell our neighbors that
we are going on vacation and ask them to watch our house, for fear… they just
might do that!
Watch it from the inside as they or
someone they know – makes off with our valuable possessions all because we let
them know—“we’ll be gone for two whole weeks!”
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Why can’t we expect our neighbors to be
“neighborly”? And why… are we so surprised when—THEY ARE!!!
So, I bought this lawnmower over the
weekend!
Stay with me for this one—it might
take a minute.
I go to Home Depot—by myself—my wife decided
that she wasn’t needed to help me pick out a new lawn mower.
It wasn’t the “picking out” that I
needed help with—it was the “picking up” into the back of the van that I could
have used some help with.
Am I the only one who remembers that I
have a heart condition? Apparently so!
My lawn mower has seen its last
day—although it IS a Sears Craftsman which should mean that it will last a
lifetime.
For some people, maybe.
But, for me…once I check the spark
plug, clean out the air filter, lubricate the engine motor and check for oil
and gas… I have reached my height of lawn mower knowledge!
And…if it still is NOT working—time to
buy a new one!
And YES—I checked to make sure it had
gas—this is NOT one of THOSE stories!
And for those who know—taking it to a service
center is going to cost me $100 just to have it diagnosed and who knows what it
will cost to fix it?
And a new one? Only costs less than
twice that—and it’s new!!
Back to the new mower—it’s a LawnBoy!
Apparently, that is funny—per my son, who laughed when I told him the name! He
said, “You’re kidding, right?”
I said no—it’s a Toro LawnBoy! Lime
Green, I might add!
I get it home—no easy feat alone—in a
minivan!
I assemble it, start it and mow the
lawn!
Task accomplished! New mower checks
out, lawn mowed!
Now what to do with the old mower?
I tell my wife, “I’m going to do one
of my Random Acts of Kindness and just set it out in the front, by the road, so
someone can come by and take it. They will fix it, use it or sell it, but it
will bless them and… the old mower will be out of my yard! Kind and efficient
all wrapped up in one deed!”
I set it out at the road where the
garbage will be picked up.
We go to lunch—have a relaxing time
reflecting on the events of the day and my kind act of “giving away” the old
mower!”
On the drive home, I predict to my
wife “That mower is already gone! Someone drove by and saw it and SCOOPED it
up! They thought it was Christmas morning!”
I was chuckling to myself because I
didn’t leave a note that said “By the way—good luck—it doesn’t work!”
But hey? It’s on the side of the road?
Isn’t that assumed?
Who would leave a working lawn mower
on the side of the road?
Hmmmmm?
So we turn on our road, and I can see,
from where we are…it’s gone!
“I told ya! It’s gone—that mower is in somebody’s backyard as we
speak!”
And I was right!
As we pulled in—it was in MY
backyard!
The neighbor thought I had forgotten
to put it back once I mowed my lawn!
Guess they didn’t see the NEW LIME
GREEN LAWN BOY!
I didn’t have the heart to put it back
out on the road—
Maybe I can turn it into a planter?
Guess the neighbor was doing their own
Random Act of Kindness!
Thank you Neighbor—mighty neighborly of you!
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