Lawn
care must be lucrative these days. Ask little Larry, the kid who cuts my grass.
Here
I was, pounding out copy to beat the band a few days ago, when I happened to
glance out my window, just as the entrepreneurial adolescent cruised by on his souped-up
Deere.
I did a double-take at the
green blur.
Who
wouldn’t? Apparently, the kid was jamming to tunes, with headphone cords
dangling from both ears. At the same time, he was steering the mulch-munching
monster with one hand, while texting at full tilt on his smart phone with the
other.
Geez, his phone’s a whole lot nicer than mine, I thought. How
much are we paying that kid?
Larry
bounced along like a happy Hobbit on the seat of his ride-on mower, wired with
enough technology to run a small company.
I’m in the wrong business, I decided, returning to
my news deadline.
Just
then, the wee lad hit a bump and veered just a little too close to my perennial
garden.
“Watch
out for the begonias, Frodo!” I cried, although I am nearly certain the miniscule
mowing mogul missed my warning.
He
did not, however, miss my begonias. I choked back a sob to see a half-dozen sweet and innocent pink blooms bite the dust. In an instant, the kid gave dead-heading a whole
different meaning, right there in my front yard.
If
little Larry comes back next week in a virtual reality mask, his days of
tending to my grass will be quickly curtailed.
Image/s:
Riding Lawn Mower by
SeppVei
Public Domain/Wikipedia
Commons Photos
Pink Begonias by BotBin
Creative Commons
Licensing/ Wikipedia Commons Photos
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