# It's not even my neighborhood but WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047 "2009-06-07T23:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/61 "2009-06-11T17:09:14Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > I’d like to know what’s so sodding bad about leaves. In America, it is every American’s dream to have a front yard filled with a beautiful expanse of carefully manicured green lawn. Around this lawn will be placed various beds of planted things like bushes and flowers. Within the confines of the lawn may be placed trees, which each fall will drop leaves on said carefully manicured lawn. Leaves are the enemy of a lawn. Thus, leaves are sodding bad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/62 "2009-06-11T17:26:07Z")
In the last apartment my wife and I lived in before we bought our house, the maintenance guys would leaf blow right outside our window every weekend at first light. There were 2 problems with this: 1. First light here, in the summer, is about 4:40am 2. THERE ARE NO FUCKING LEAVES IN ARIZONA ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/63 "2009-06-12T14:31:40Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Well if you leave the leaves on your sodding sod, pretty soon you have dastardly dead spots on your sodding sod, and you have to waste water seeding it with sodding sod seed to get it to grow again. What garden center whore to Scott’s Fertilizer Company told you that whopper? Rotting leaves are EXCELLENT fertilizer. The only reason to rake’em is to get’em off concrete and back onto the yard and flowerbeds. Back to the subject of blowers, the goofy woman next door uses hers constantly. She’s another leaf-blower-used-as-car-dryer fanatic, AND she dries the entire length of her driveway after each car wash, as well. But it’s her constant “sweep- ings” of her porch and walks that really get to me. If you don’t use a broom and dustpan, or hose the filth off your pavement with enough water to get it into the nearest storm drain, the damn stuff’ll just come right back, you dizzy bitch!!:smack: Leafblowers are pure noise pollution and energy waste–the work of Satan!! ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/64 "2009-06-12T14:55:16Z")
My next door neighbors have decided that the proper way to response to grade school kids playing is to run the leaf blower and the lawn mower at the same time. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/65 "2009-06-12T17:21:30Z")
I swear to god that that an apartment complex I used to live in had this exact kind of meeting. [http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/index.php?comic=86](http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/index.php?comic=86) You really notice these things when you work graveyards ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047/66 "2009-06-12T17:38:50Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > What garden center whore to Scott’s Fertilizer Company told you that whopper? Nobody, I observed it with my own eyes. If you get a light sprinkling of leaves, you can probably leave them in the yard. However, I had a LARGE PILE of leaves in my yard, and I left it there. The next spring, I had a large spot with no grass growing there. Then the weeds took it over, so I had to kill them and replant grass. So yeah, pretty much just as I reported. If I run over the leaves about 20 times with a lawnmower, they pulverize enough that they don’t choke the lawn as much, but still, sometimes it’s just easier to use the blower. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-even-my-neighborhood-but-what-the-fuck/499047.md?page=3)