Originally Posted by MrTwister (Post 2293887)

Would anyone be willing to let me borrow a pushmower with a bag? We sold all our mowers and yard tools before our move here. I just really want to clean up around my tree out front and bag it. I have a truck and could pick it up this morning and return it today. With a full tank of gas of course!

Originally Posted by MrTwister (Post 2293887)

Would anyone be willing to let me borrow a pushmower with a bag? We sold all our mowers and yard tools before our move here. I just really want to clean up around my tree out front and bag it. I have a truck and could pick it up this morning and return it today. With a full tank of gas of course!

Originally Posted by Michigan Farmer (Post 2294089)

I have one I'd be happy to let you use and a pickup I can bring it over anytime. Call me.
Bill
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Originally Posted by Nevinator (Post 2294107)

When I received the email this morning with the Talk of The Villages hot topics from yesterday and saw the reference to this post, I thought: what could possibly go wrong with this simple request?

The first and ONLY response that I expected to see from “America’s friendliest hometown“ was for someone to say: “sure, come on over and pick it up. It’s available anytime you want it.“ However, when I clicked on the link to the thread, the responses were pretty much everything except what the poor OP requested.

Responses like: “Buy a rake.” The OP asked to borrow a lawnmower, not a rake. Give the guy a little credit for having some common sense, and knowing what tool he needed (or preferred) to perform the task at hand.

“Don’t any of your neighbors do their own yard work?” Well I guess I’m jumping to a few conclusions here, but if I already knew that I had a neighbor that did their own yard work common sense would dictate that I would’ve asked them to borrow their lawnmower before posting a request here.

Geez! Cut the guy break. Rather than offering to help the guy out, people instead respond with glib or curt remarks. It seems to me that there are a bunch of people on this forum who somehow feel the need to post foolish responses to certain threads despite the fact that their tripe adds nothing beneficial to the conversation, or subject at hand. I don’t know if they’re trying to be funny, or they just get some level of satisfaction from picking apart someone else’s simple request. Maybe it’s just to run up the thread counter so they can reach that next great forum level. Or, perhaps it’s because they’re all a bunch of old people who don’t have much of a life anymore, friends, activities, etc. so they’re relegated to spend their final days, months, years on this planet in front of a computer all day playing “keyboard warrior” posting thousands of useless comments. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what the reason is, I’m just quite surprised that a new Villages posts a rather simple and straightforward request and gets the runaround and added frustration as opposed to a solution.

Okay, haters… my door is open, pile on if you feel the need.

For Mr. Twister, (the OP) welcome to The Villages.

Originally Posted by Nevinator (Post 2294107)

When I received the email this morning with the Talk of The Villages hot topics from yesterday and saw the reference to this post, I thought: what could possibly go wrong with this simple request?

The first and ONLY response that I expected to see from “America’s friendliest hometown“ was for someone to say: “sure, come on over and pick it up. It’s available anytime you want it.“ However, when I clicked on the link to the thread, the responses were pretty much everything except what the poor OP requested.

Responses like: “Buy a rake.” The OP asked to borrow a lawnmower, not a rake. Give the guy a little credit for having some common sense, and knowing what tool he needed (or preferred) to perform the task at hand.

“Don’t any of your neighbors do their own yard work?” Well I guess I’m jumping to a few conclusions here, but if I already knew that I had a neighbor that did their own yard work common sense would dictate that I would’ve asked them to borrow their lawnmower before posting a request here.

Geez! Cut the guy break. Rather than offering to help the guy out, people instead respond with glib or curt remarks. It seems to me that there are a bunch of people on this forum who somehow feel the need to post foolish responses to certain threads despite the fact that their tripe adds nothing beneficial to the conversation, or subject at hand. I don’t know if they’re trying to be funny, or they just get some level of satisfaction from picking apart someone else’s simple request. Maybe it’s just to run up the thread counter so they can reach that next great forum level. Or, perhaps it’s because they’re all a bunch of old people who don’t have much of a life anymore, friends, activities, etc. so they’re relegated to spend their final days, months, years on this planet in front of a computer all day playing “keyboard warrior” posting thousands of useless comments. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what the reason is, I’m just quite surprised that a new Villages posts a rather simple and straightforward request and gets the runaround and added frustration as opposed to a solution.

Okay, haters… my door is open, pile on if you feel the need.

For Mr. Twister, (the OP) welcome to The Villages.

Originally Posted by pauld315 (Post 2293926)

Yu need to just break down and buy one if you are going to be maintaining your own lawn. You can hire these guys around here for much less than 100 a month. Why bother?

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2294243)

And where was your offer? O you don’t have one, then need go out and buy one so he can borrow it.

Originally Posted by Nevinator (Post 2294107)

When I received the email this morning with the Talk of The Villages hot topics from yesterday and saw the reference to this post, I thought: what could possibly go wrong with this simple request?

The first and ONLY response that I expected to see from “America’s friendliest hometown“ was for someone to say: “sure, come on over and pick it up. It’s available anytime you want it.“ However, when I clicked on the link to the thread, the responses were pretty much everything except what the poor OP requested.

Responses like: “Buy a rake.” The OP asked to borrow a lawnmower, not a rake. Give the guy a little credit for having some common sense, and knowing what tool he needed (or preferred) to perform the task at hand.

“Don’t any of your neighbors do their own yard work?” Well I guess I’m jumping to a few conclusions here, but if I already knew that I had a neighbor that did their own yard work common sense would dictate that I would’ve asked them to borrow their lawnmower before posting a request here.

Geez! Cut the guy break. Rather than offering to help the guy out, people instead respond with glib or curt remarks. It seems to me that there are a bunch of people on this forum who somehow feel the need to post foolish responses to certain threads despite the fact that their tripe adds nothing beneficial to the conversation, or subject at hand. I don’t know if they’re trying to be funny, or they just get some level of satisfaction from picking apart someone else’s simple request. Maybe it’s just to run up the thread counter so they can reach that next great forum level. Or, perhaps it’s because they’re all a bunch of old people who don’t have much of a life anymore, friends, activities, etc. so they’re relegated to spend their final days, months, years on this planet in front of a computer all day playing “keyboard warrior” posting thousands of useless comments. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what the reason is, I’m just quite surprised that a new Villages posts a rather simple and straightforward request and gets the runaround and added frustration as opposed to a solution.

Okay, haters… my door is open, pile on if you feel the need.

For Mr. Twister, (the OP) welcome to The Villages.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2294350)

I can see that some people like to "do it yourself". And some might like the exercise. What I don't understand is the "with a bag" part of the request. To take that to an extreme for clarity sake....... what if I said to someone, " I want to borrow a lawn mower, but it must be electrical, have a bag, and be painted blue". That would NOT make sense.
......Also, I cut my grass without a bag because the grass can feed off of the clippings and they won't run-off into the lakes like over-fertilization with unnatural commercial fertilizers will.

Originally Posted by Nevinator (Post 2294107)

When I received the email this morning with the Talk of The Villages hot topics from yesterday and saw the reference to this post, I thought: what could possibly go wrong with this simple request?

The first and ONLY response that I expected to see from “America’s friendliest hometown“ was for someone to say: “sure, come on over and pick it up. It’s available anytime you want it.“ However, when I clicked on the link to the thread, the responses were pretty much everything except what the poor OP requested.

Responses like: “Buy a rake.” The OP asked to borrow a lawnmower, not a rake. Give the guy a little credit for having some common sense, and knowing what tool he needed (or preferred) to perform the task at hand.

“Don’t any of your neighbors do their own yard work?” Well I guess I’m jumping to a few conclusions here, but if I already knew that I had a neighbor that did their own yard work common sense would dictate that I would’ve asked them to borrow their lawnmower before posting a request here.

Geez! Cut the guy break. Rather than offering to help the guy out, people instead respond with glib or curt remarks. It seems to me that there are a bunch of people on this forum who somehow feel the need to post foolish responses to certain threads despite the fact that their tripe adds nothing beneficial to the conversation, or subject at hand. I don’t know if they’re trying to be funny, or they just get some level of satisfaction from picking apart someone else’s simple request. Maybe it’s just to run up the thread counter so they can reach that next great forum level. Or, perhaps it’s because they’re all a bunch of old people who don’t have much of a life anymore, friends, activities, etc. so they’re relegated to spend their final days, months, years on this planet in front of a computer all day playing “keyboard warrior” posting thousands of useless comments. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what the reason is, I’m just quite surprised that a new Villages posts a rather simple and straightforward request and gets the runaround and added frustration as opposed to a solution.

Okay, haters… my door is open, pile on if you feel the need.

For Mr. Twister, (the OP) welcome to The Villages.