Yes, i enjoy suburbia. All the benefits of city life with some of the space of country life. i like being able to be downtown in 10 minutes or less to visit the museum, see a show, or go out to eat at one of the many restaurants. i like having a bit of land to separate me from the rest of the public. i like having trees and vegetation and birds that come and visit as well as the occasional turkey, deer, or coyote. What a wonderful mix... i almost feel like i get it all.
Yes i know about all the drawbacks, social and environmental, but i am a big fan of the balance of my two tastes. i can, after all, make my own house as environmental as i can afford. Can't do that to a rented apartment now can you?
There is a movement i would like to start, however, to improve the life of all living in or near suburbia: everyone should mow their lawns on either Mondays or Tuesdays, after they get home from work. You see, not everyone has a nice, quiet, on-site exhaust free electric lawn mower like me.
Spring, summer, and fall in suburbia echos with the sound of gas chugging lawn mower engines. They wake me every weekend morning and buzz straight through to the beginning of the work week. Everyone seems to have a different time scheduled as to ensure that someone is always mowing at any given moment of the weekend. There must have been some neighborhood meeting that i wasn't invited to where they set the schedule with a lottery to see who mows when. "Lets just not tell that antisocial, skinny punk motherfucker" i can hear them saying now.
Why Monday or Tuesday? Those days suck anyway, why not just pile on the suck. Get it all over with in one fell swoop and keep weekends enjoyable. Evening avoids the heat of the day and no one's trying to sleep anyway.
What do you say gang? Can we do this? All for the betterment of our society.
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