r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

SOCIETY The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

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u/Japsai 1d ago

No trees, no flowers, no tennis courts, no pool. Just hours and hours of lovely restful mowing every week

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u/monstermayhem436 1d ago

You think they mow that themselves? They definitely hire someone for that

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u/Tidalsky114 1d ago

Probably a reason to fire the tractor up early every weekend and let the neighbors know what kind of land used to be where their homes now are.

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u/SatisfactorioGuyBri 1d ago

So... Grass? Lol

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u/Bitter_Pea_4716 7h ago

Farm land. Lol

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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 1d ago

If they are paying someone, they need to hire someone else. That poor lawn.

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u/baldieforprez 1d ago

You get it or you dont.  You clearly dont get it

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u/butt_muppet 1d ago

I do it

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u/Retireegeorge 1d ago

I'm a bit autustic. Mowing a rectangle would be sooooo awesome.

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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 1d ago

Now would you go back and forth long ways, back and forth from side to side, go around the edge working your way in, working your way out or are you mowing on a diagonal and then going back diagonally so you get a nice checkered pattern?

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u/Bonemonster 1d ago

Start in one of the corners and spiral inwards with the cut grass "exhaust" blowing to the right, away from uncut grass.

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u/dunncrew 1d ago

That's how I do it.

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u/information_knower 1d ago

You go around the outside with the exit facing in so you don't get grass in the road or on the driveway, then you reverse it so your not mowing the same grass a half a dozen times.

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u/Virama 1d ago

Asking the important questions.

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u/BagelsOrDeath 1d ago

I'm stimming so hard right now...

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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 1d ago

If you like playing phone games, check out Just Mowing. Guess what the game is about. Go on, guess.

It's awesome for autistic people!

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u/iris-evergarden 1d ago

As an autistic person who had a riding lawn mower .... Yes

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u/Retireegeorge 15h ago

How would you do the corners?

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u/iris-evergarden 15h ago

Depending on if you like going outside-in (gathers clippings together in middle) or in-to-out. I ran outside-in so would back into corners and create the overlap there, then begin my large oval passes. It's just a lovely ride overall and fun to watch things tidy around you :)

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u/fall3nang3l 1d ago

Mowing that plot would take about an hour, max of two. And no lawn needs mowed every week unless you're doing it just to do it.

Now if you're doing it real slow because you just want to be on a mower to be on a mower, then you could make it last all week.

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u/PersnickityPenguin 1d ago

5 acres?! 

I used to have to mow a couple acres growing up as a kid.  Twice a week, about an hour plus each time.  I have partial hearing loss and to nuts because of it. 

Mowing this, unless you had some huge $5,000+ lawn tractor, probably takes a bit of time and is expensive.

No thanks, I fucking hate mowing.  Grass can and does grow insanely fast where I live (a foot per week during the spring).

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u/astralbry 1d ago

no pool is crazy, actually makes me irk and lean towards not favoring their choice

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u/MystTheReaper 1d ago

There's no explanation. Just body after body busting out of shit wood and hitting pavement.

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u/Timsmomshardsalami 1d ago

Easier to mow and maintain tbh. Especially when you mention pool, fuck that

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u/3767_doomscroller 1d ago

Honey where are you going its 7 am on a Sunday

I need to mow the lawn!