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. 
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:
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!!
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:
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
You really notice these things when you work graveyards
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.