Having applied the product to his garden, Olson observed the grass begin to fade and called up the garden centre to demand to know what had happened…
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Pre-emergent and post-emergent weed AND grass control.
Around 1970, I lived in Navy housing in Los Alamitos, Cal, and commuted to my ship in Long Beach when we were in port. Shared rides with 2 other guys, and often we noticed this guy out bustin his butt on his lawn.
Worked on it for several months while we were in shipyard, and it wasn’t turning out right, so one day we noticed he’d plowed the entire lawn under and reseeded it. Ship deployed to WestPac, so we were gone for about 7 months, but when we got back the poor bastard was STILL workin on that damned lawn . . . Just couldn’t get it to suit him.
Went out for fleet exercises for a coupla weeks, and next time we drove by the place he’d plowed it all under and rolled it out again. Then a crew came in and laid sod over the entire front — musta cost him thousands. About two days later when we drove by one morning, the grass was completely gone; thieves had come in during the night, rolled up the new sod, and carted it off.
Not long after that, we deployed again to the Gulf of Tonkin. When we got back, his lawn was beautiful. Close-cropped, green, uniform in color, no weeds . . . picture perfect. Just before I got orders to the NavCommSta in San Miguel, I found out why.
He gave up, had the entire front lawn paved in blacktop, then installed Astroturf on it.
Poor guy. “weeds and GRASS control”
And two kids with CF – poor guy, my heart aches for him.
That’ll leave a mark. It would be useful to have a common area on all sorts of packaging so that we don’t make mistakes like that. I hate it when I go to open a can of Campbell’s soup only to find out it’s low sodium and has potassium instead. …or take a bite out of store-bought pie only to find it’s the “no sugar” variety.
“Nice yard – DUMBASS!”
Magnificent BASTARD! He just got out of mowing the lawn for the rest of the summer! So here’s the deal. If I am the weed/grass control company and can afford it, I’m gonna cut the guy a check for the $20,000 he usually raises for the sick kids. Why? It’s good PR for me and it’s deductable. One condition. I get to use the pics of this guy’s lawn in my advertising!
As far as paying to redo the guy’s yard, Nope. You’re own your own, pal.
^ KisPians rock. This is one reason why :)
“What you want is called ‘Weed & Feed’, not ‘Agent Orange’, pal”…
As one who works hard to eliminate lawn….this is hilarious.
I can’t help it!
“Wiener to run for NYC Mayor”
Sounds redundant to me – isn’t the Mayor already a dick?
AAAaaaaaand..
You have to wonder if he ever gets a Huma from the “leetle woman”…
This issue with people wanting others to pay for their stupidity is at pandemic levels, and *really* getting old.
Uhmm, Headmissey, having seen and benefited from your *lawn elimination* phobia, I gotta say that increasing your labor by a factor of 100 per square foot is a pleasant remedy? A kitchen closet filled to the brim with canned fruits and vegetables is a trickfuck notion that Groucho Marx (actual…) woulda never answered correctly!
And you think this guy killing his lawn is hilarious?!?! I always say how I love you because you are one in a million. Little did I realize my estimate was on the “low side”! Way————on
I wonder if it kills tallow trees?
My brother Mike once did my grandfather a favor and fertilized his dicondra lawn. Turns out the label warned not to use it on dicondra. The entire front lawn died.
He obviously forgot to read the instructions….
wait… he’s a man ;)
^ Melissa beat me to it.
Sometimes, some lives are meant simply to serve as a warning to others.
So did he inherit the house and land or is the wife the brains of the outfit.?
Hope they didn’t eat any of those Bush baked beans.
My only comment: two and a half acres is way more than 40,000 square feet.
^ Not all of it’s dead lawn tho :)
OK, how many guyz do you know that can get their huge lawn
plastered all over the intartoobz?