Getting the Lawn Mowed
We signed a one-year lease on a house in the Seattle area when we moved here last year. Wanted to wait before buying, to make sure the Microsoft job works out, you know. 
Anyway, the lease includes lawn care. The landlord sends over a crew to mow the lawn every week or two, and that was working great last fall.
But it’s off to a clumsy start this year. The lawn was never mowed in April, and a few days before our wedding (on 4/28) Megan contacted the landlord and he sent over a crew to mow it. A funny coincidence was that Megan’s grandmother Adele had never seen our place, but arrived the day after the lawn was mowed. The next night, Megan’s uncle Grant told me that she (Adele) had carefully inspected the yard when they arrived, and was impressed by how well I mow the lawn. Ha! Haven’t mowed a lawn in years, actually.
That was a month ago, and the lawn hasn’t been mowed since. So I sent this email to the landlord yesterday, with a photo attached:
Hi Matt,
Not sure if there’s something scheduled for the weekend, but just wanted to let you know the lawn’s getting pretty long.
Thanks,
Doug
I received his response a couple hours later:
I will have to fire that guy
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device
Sounds good, but when does the lawn get mowed? Meanwhile, it’s getting prettier every day, with more and more flowers blooming in it.
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on May 26, 2006 at 11:49 am Megan wrote:
And when all that grass is wet, it makes taking out the garbage even more unpleasant than usual.
Sigh - it’s tough, this married life.
on May 27, 2006 at 1:59 pm nick wrote:
tell him he forgot my lawn too..hugs, and cheers to the married life…
on May 28, 2006 at 12:32 am Doug wrote:
Well, they remembered our lawn yesterday. Mowed nice and short … now we’ll see how long until they come back. We weren’t here when they did it, so we’re not certain whether it was a new guy or the old guy with some new motivation.