Last night was a hard one... I had a bad headache that was worse and worse every minute that was passing, but I had to finish some work before going to bed... Finally, I did that a bit after 2 AM, without taking a pill... I thought the headache will pass until morning... Well, it didn't...
So, you can imagine how I looked in the morning when I was stressed about the previous day and I got additionally triggered by the sound of at least THREE (also, by numbers 3) leaf blowers from the outside at 8 AM! Yes, I know... That's not "that early", but when you go to bed late and wake up with another headache, it's a very unpleasant waking up...
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Now, the problem wouldn't be "a problem" if the thing with leaf blowers doesn't happen every freakin' day! As I live in a "tourist town", where we have a lot of building apartments with pools (yeah, it sounds like a dream, but not that much fun... but I will keep that for another rant), every building has its own concierge (to keep everything clean and ready for those Instagram and FB profile pics 😂)... I will be subjective here, but a couple of them that I know are very, very lazy people... 😃
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When you live in the same place for years, you can easily notice the pattern of their "work"... They come to "work" at 8 AM, blowing with those shitthings for 10-15 minutes, just to wake up everyone in the building to SHOW others that they WORK something (and you are not paying them for nothing)... After blowing those leaves from point A to point B (and point B isn't a dumpster... It's usually, blowing from sidewalk to road), they leave everything and go for a breakfast break... After an hour or so, they are back, pick the leaf blower, and store it...
After that, they take out the lawn mower and repeat the same procedure... Work for a couple of minutes, go to the COFFEE BREAK, come back in 2-3 hours, maybe finish the lawn, and go home...
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Back to the leaf blowers... We don't have too many trees here... By the pool, we have only 3 palm trees, but sometimes, the wind blows 2-3 leaves from outside to the backyard... AND THERE IT IS! Our reason to pull out the freakin' leaf blower! 😂
On the other side, we have trees on the street where our concierge goes out, and blow out the leaves to the road... Of course, nobody picks up those leaves from there, so they stay there to clog the sewerage shaft, which creates huge problems if it rains... But, in most cases, leaves stay on the road during the day...
and then... after a windy afternoon, we are back to the beginning... Leaves are back to the sidewalk, and 2-3 of them are in our backyard...
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...Tomorrow is another day... I know what will happen at 8 AM in the morning... All concierges will pull out their leaf blowers... to start a new day...
What is your experience with leaf blowers? What team do you support, the leaf blower, or the good old broom?
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Hahaha - this had me LOL! Not your headache though, I can relate to that and I hope you're much better by now.
Leafblowers - well, not sure about dumbest but they sure ease the work of gathering the leaves. palm trees so maybe FL or so = not too many small-leafed trees, but here in the NorthEast... man, I wouldn't want to own a house with trees during fall. I mean, I do want to own that house. And I don't because there are so many leaves over a period of a few weeks... Which is when in our community the leafblowers come through as well. 8 am? Check. But only once a week and they do gather the leaves and bring them - not sure where.
I'm glad that you had a good laugh reading the post! 😀
I'm actually in Spain, and I mentioned palm trees as they don't do any "harm" in the autumn, but there we are... Our concierge still finds some leaves to blow... 😂
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After I hit send I was like, duh, not everyone with palm trees lives in the southern US 😆.
Spain - nice! The only place I've been to in Spain, many many many moons ago, was Tarragona. Sadly didn't make it any further. Well, maybe Fuerteventura counts? Anyways, sorry, about that.
Hehehe... No worries... I'm a bit more south... under Valencia, but every year, I pass by Tarragona when I go on my "European road trip"... 😃
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European road trip sounds great! I have been away for so long that I am starting to long for the old towns of European cities. Oh well, one day...
The noise is bad and I hate that. But at one point I was thinking to buy one. We have roses close to the wall, and it's hard to use a rake there. I was thinking a leaf blower could be useful to get those leaves between the roses and the wall out.
You are the first that gave one good use case of a leaf blower... If you have hundreds of roses, then it's a good purchase! 😃
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Haha, not even close. But I hate the noise too because my front neighbor often has workers that use them. At least they don't start at 8am. What I dislike even more is that in my neighborhood, once one starts mowing the lawn (in particular), you hear a few others remembering to do the same. You may end up dreaming of lawnmowers after a day like this. A nightmare, of course.
I think they make a lot of noise but they are important to move them to where they can decompose. The decomposition is crucial for the soil. I get it’s annoying and agree it can be but they do have a good purpose, just saying :D
I know the wind will blow it around and some will end up back where it originated from lol but a lot of it does have a good purpose!
It has sense, but it has no sense if they don't recollect the leaves in bags... And it's totally possible to do it with a rake, a broom, etc... :)
Thanks for reading my rant! :)
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Is the Leaf Blower the Dumbest Invention Ever?
The answer to this question is simply short: Yes.
Get well soon, headaches suck....
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Hahahaha... I'm doing better, thanks!
And I'm glad that you share my opinion about leaf blowers... :)
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I can't aim so I prefer Old broom 🤣 Whether we use leaf blower or old broom, if no one collect it with trash bag = useless.
Yeah... It looks like the "old broom" works with a trash can, but the leaf blower doesn't... 😃
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LOL I can understand how irritating that could be. I always get some comments about the noise of that leaf blower from a neighboring golf course from the guest that stay in the villa where I work. Every morning, leafblower, and a lawnmower.
but if a few leaves, i think it is better to use the broom.
Wow! Thanks for writing this! I thought that it is like that only at my place... Now, I feel better as I'm not alone... 😃
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I also never understood the leaf blower. They are loud, waste gas, spit out pollution, and don't work all that much better than a simple rake does. A rake is even better in many ways, including control and peace and quiet. Every time I see one I just shake my head. What's the point...
When I was writing this "rant post", I thought that maybe I'm the problem and not the leaf blower... But reading through the comments, it looks like we are in majority! #BanLeafBlowers 😂
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There must be some kind of consensus in the community to only use these after 10am...
but have you noticed that nobody uses them in the afternoon?? it's like they want to wake everyone up on purpose
Hahahahahaha! That's a great point and I didn't pay attention to that fact! Indeed, NOBODY uses them in the afternoon... looool... 🤣
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