Summer at last.
\nWeekend at last.
\nTwo more exams.<\/p>\n
Beautiful weather, gorgeous peace.<\/p>\n
Sitting in the garden reading, taking notes, it begins.
\nThe neighbour fires up the lawnmower. This is, in fact more contagious than ebola in a chicken coop. So the neighbour on the other side thinks \u00aboh, mow the lawn, maybe!\u00bb and he fires up his machinery. So then the landlord… and the guy across the road, and the next one up…<\/p>\n
So when neighbour number 1 is finished with the mower \u2013 thank god!… out comes the bloody trimmer. A high-pitched whine, a teeth-grinding squealing. I brace myself, and see that I could go bonkers, and remember a high quality splatter-film I saw once. It included some deranged character, a blade lawnmower and about 30 000 litres of fake blood. I get pictures in my head. I see why people go apeshit on planes or turn up at work with sub machine guns. Simply one bleeding lawnmower too many.<\/p>\n
The whole day was one continuous racket \u2013 the peace and bliss of life outside the city. Indeed. So on top of it all: the neighbour on the left have a small tractor. And for good measure, he drove it all over his own and other neighbours lawn..dragging one of those rolling things behind it. The sort of thingy you use to level out your yard. Don’t ask me why. I could see no effect at all.<\/p>\n
Deep inside, I suspect there’s an element of keeping up with the Jones’es in all this racket. And that weird relationship between The Man and His Powertools. The importance of the machine that goes bbrrRRRAAAWWWHHH.<\/p>\n
I have to get out of here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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