[RKDinOKC]

Yep. almost every neighbor kid that has mowed my yard since I moved here has been stupid.

Told them they needed to walk my yard and pick up sticks and look for stuff in my yard because my dog leaves stuff out. They said okay then proceeded to mow without even looking at the yard. They killed a fairly big chew toy, 3 rawhide chews, and hit and chopped up a 15 foot red leash TWICE, not to mention notching the heck out of their mower blade on all the cotton wood sticks.

The next time they mowed they hit the remnants of the leash two more times and you could hear the mower hitting more cotton wood sticks. Cottonwood trees shed sticks, you HAVE to pick them up or your mower blade is toast.

Ignorant is when you have never been exposed to knowledge so you just don't know. Stupid doesn't learn.

There was one HS age girl that was pretty smart. She managed a group of 6 younger neighbor boys that did all the work while she directed them. When they showed up a couple of boys would start edging and the rest would walk the yard picking up sticks, hoses, dog toys. Then they would start mowing and would follow the edgers around so the mower would sweep the sidewalks, drive, and curbs. In 5 minutes they would all be pushing a mower. It only took them about 10 minutes to knock out my whole yard. Sadly after she went to college none of the boys stepped up and took her place, they just stopped mowing.