{"id":1283,"date":"2016-05-04T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:03:23","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-lawn-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-case-of-the-missing-lawn-mower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Missing Lawn Mower"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, this afternoon, I edged and mowed the front lawn, emptied the grass clippings into a paper lawn bag on the edge of the yard and went to weedeat the back yard. 15 minutes later, I came around front to push the lawnmower to the back yard to mow. <\/p>\n

No mower. I looked in the side yards, the garage, the back yard, under the trampoline – NO mower. I wondered, “Is punking people still a thing?” I traced my steps and I was certain I had left the mower right by the leaf bag on the curbside. Cuuuurbside… In a panic I looked down the street for a neighbor’s old grill I had seen earlier – gone. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I remembered seeing a fellow driving a white truck around collecting scrap metal and other items of value on this day before trash pickup. <\/p>\n

Then it hit me – my beloved $300 Husqvarna lawn mower had been trash picked right out of my front yard. <\/p>\n

I blurted out what had happened to Penny<\/a>. She took off in the golf cart and I screeched off the other direction in the van. I drove down every street in my half of the neighborhood and then started back the other way. I wondered what I would do when we found the truck…if we found it. I wasn’t all that mad at the guy – I think it was mostly a misunderstanding. <\/p>\n

Well, a few blocks down, I came upon the truck and a car and a golf cart with a blonde lady gesturing and pointing at the guy’s truck and sure enough – Penny had the guy cornered \u2013 with our lawnmower perched on top of the cab of his truck. <\/p>\n

The guy was very apologetic and swore that he doesn’t steal and it *was* on the side of the road. I said it’s OK and clarified a few points for him – it was on the side of the YARD…with a mostly full tank of gas…and a hot muffler…next to a lawn bag. I advised him \u2013 next time just ask. <\/p>\n

We shook hands \u2013 the universal gesture acknowledging, “We all good, but don’t touch my lawnmower no more.” Penny took the van home and I drove the mower home on the back of the golf cart so I could finish mowing my lawn before dark. <\/p>\n

So watch where you leave your stuff, folks, or you might find yourself wondering whose lawnmower you could borrow to finish your lawn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, this afternoon, I edged and mowed the front lawn, emptied the grass clippings into a paper lawn bag on the edge of the yard and went to weedeat the back yard. 15 minutes later, I came around front to push the lawnmower to the back yard to mow.  No mower. I looked in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}