How do you eat your corn on the cob?
 

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Me, typewriter:cool:

Side to side, rotate, next row,

Yup, that's me.

Can't stand the bits getting stuck in my teeth and in the permanent retainer I have on the front bottom teeth, so I cut it off the cob with a knife first.

I've been wanting to ask this question for years.

I'm an around and around guy.

Like a 1960s secretary on a typewriter!

Another vote for typewriter.

Once you've got that first row done, it makes the rest easier (because you're eating at an edge). You can then get your teeth right at the base of the next row of kernels (whether you hit the next row above with your bottom teeth or below with your top teeth).

Along the same lines do you mow your yard back and forth or in a circle starting from the outside working in? :D

Left to right starting at the small end typewriter style.

Yes...

It depends on the yard and the mower. With a riding mower (ZT) in our current yard, it's mostly in a circuit from outside in.

In smaller yards in years past with a push mower, it used to be line by line, but in spots may have been in a circuit depending upon size, shape, and obstacles in the path (so potentially, a little of both).

First I roll my cob in butter...then eat back and forth, "typewriter" style. I also save a couple rows of kernels for my dog Lena - who is very adept at chewing off just the kernels as I hold the ear for her.

Oh...and mowing - with my JD X500, I go in circles from the outside in - the first circle being in the "wrong" direction with the waste chute facing inwards so I can get real close to the outside, then I turn around and do the rest in the "correct" (waste chute facing outwards) direction.

But seeing as how these waste chutes are hinged...and that I have friends who've equipped their waste chutes with "pull cords" with which to set them vertically so they don't get in the way of stuff, I think I may do this at some point. Anybody else here do this?

Typewriter on the corn. Yard was horizontal one week, vertical the next and diagonal the next.

Yard:

One side of the driveway is a simple rectangle so around the outside working to the inside is best.

The main yard is complicated by trees and the shape. Best to just follow the path of least resistance.

The best part of the yard is I just hired a guy to do it for me. $90/month. worth every dime.

I never eat my corn the same way twice.
Does that make me weird?

Waste chute blocked with plate from "mulch kit". I'd love to be able to permanently insert the mulch kid plate and then remove the plastic chute, but sometimes we need to not mulch (if the grass is too tall/thick). If the mulch plate isn't installed, I may direct all waste towards the center so it gets hit over and over again (kind of a poor mans mulching) as long as it's not so thick/heavy that it bogs the mower.

exactly, so it varies

When we were in a neighborhood with a regular yard. If I mowed, weed eated, edged, etc..., it took me ~2 hours, and sucked throughout most of the summer because of the heat and humidity. We eventually tried getting someone to do it, and after several different folks, found a company, "econocuts". $100/mo. (most of the year, 4x/mo), so $25 per mow, weed eat, edge, blow. They'd show up on a Sat morning, and with about 5 guys working various tools simultaneously, they were done in 7 mins (yes, I timed them a few times because it was shocking). They did an excellent job and never mowed stuff that wasn't supposed to be mowed. It was well worth $25/week for me not spending 2hrs out in the heat and being sapped when I came in.

My yard mowing is a challenge due to the numerous flowerbeds my wife has had me install over the 26 years we have lived here. We have 6 flowerbeds or tree rings in the front yard, two on the west side, 3 in the back yard and Koi pond in the back. All the flower beds makes the yard be cut in smaller zones.

I have right at a 1/4 mile of edging sidewalks, and a ton of string trimming around the flower beds.

We have people stop and gawk at the pretty flowers, and tons of honey bees, bumble bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. In the late fall the Monarchs are so thick it is kind of creepy being surrounded by 30 or 40 butterflies swarming around me. I know for certain that can bite or sting, but swarms of them is just weird.

I'll stick with eating corn on the cob:D

With a sharp knife...