You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[coldsteelva]

I'm a young guy (35) and now that I escaped metropolis life and live out in the country it amazes me how many 'city slickers' believe that everyone that lives or chooses to live out in the country and put in some honest labor is an uneducated 'hick'. I'm a college-educated, married, father with a decent salary that just happens to enjoy digging holes, mowing, and turning wrenches more than sitting on my arse playing video games or being trapped in my cube farm. Forced cube farm labor is what allows me to enjoy my 'off' time. I actually feel kind of funny when I wear my brand new Massey hat that came with my GC1720 because it is so clean.

I have several co-workers that wonder why I live 'so far away' from work (<30 miles) and don't care about repairing the gravel drive or raising chickens or our dogs. These selfish city folk want to just work and go home and think they they are 'living the dream'. They are all nuts.

 

[Sprinklerman]

I am in an opposite situation , I came off of 10 acres just outside suburbia , and moved to the burbs for the blue ribbon school district .I kept my property and equipment . I am the one in the work boots , bring equip home , always doing my own work . Neighbors are yuppie , most government or government contractors. I was slit seeding my lawn with the New Holland and a couple neighbors inquired at to what I was doing .So I told them . One guy asks If I could do his ? So I told him its $ 75.00 per thousand sq ft . So he does some math in his head , and says " thats almost as much as the companies charge " So I sit there for a second , and tell him , well I am a landscape contractor so that makes me a business . But you got done pretty quick why so much? Because somebody has to pay for my cool toys .

 

[sixdogs]

I probably mentioned this somewhere before but I'll try again. Tourists can't seem to stand up and they like to sit or lean whenever possible. We were baling hay one July 4th with a NH 273 and a thrower on it. Right above the tire on the baler is a round bolt with a big washer that has grease on it. Anyway, someone was sitting on that tire and I wasn't paying attention until they hopped off.

In the center of the back of their heavy khaki shirt was a great big grease "bullseye". Golly, it's still funny. Not to them, just me.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

That's assuming it's not run by PETA. Their kill rate is astronomical. Those people are bigger hypocrites than the big-haired shouters on religious TV telling little old ladies to send in their grocery money.

PETA doesn't run animal shelters. None of the national organizations do. If you really are concerned about animals, donate to local shelters, not the big fund raising organizations.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

You can pretty much judge a person by the shoes they're wearing.

This goes double from Dec to March snow season.

I once advertised on Craigslist to get rid of free horse manure/compost. I would load anybody's truck or trailer with my FEL.

1st city slicker shows up with a brand new $40,000+ pickup with a crew cab & a worthless 5-3/4' (+/-) box on it. He then proceeds to lay down a tarp & unfold some 4'-5' tall cardboard to wrap around the inside of the box to act like side-racks (?). Cardboard!! WTH? My FEL is probably 7'+ wide. He said "go ahead and dump it", so I did. I'm sure all the horsesh*t eventually cleaned off his roof, between the box and cab, frame, bumper. Got to break it in sometime.
2nd city slicker shows up with a trailer that has about 2" clearance between 10" tires and fenders that's would probably be overloaded if you put a lawn mower on it. I didn't load it full, just enough to leave him about 1/2" clearance "Good luck, drive safe, slow down for the bumps."

Back to the shoes a man wears: The best was the slicker who showed up in a mini-van with about (10) 5-gal pails and a shovel, wearing flip-flops!! "Manure pile is over there dude, have at it!" I'll be over here laughing.

Ain't that the truth! I was doing some winter trenching and working in 6" of mud when an old friend showed up wearing fancy boots with a suede(!) finish. He wanted to help, but I told him to spare his obviously expensive boots. He said, "These boots can handle anything," and jumped into the trench. That's the last time they were cute. Of course, I was wearing rubber pull-on dairy boots that I could just hose off.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Probably the same places that require water storage prohibit new swimming pools as a waste of water.

Bruce.

Not in my county. We're in a wildfire zone, so you can't get a house permit without installing 5000 gallons of water storage on site. You also have to provide a driveway that is accessible to fire trucks from both ends, which means a turnaround near the house where they can get pointed the other direction.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

What?

You edited out the rest of my post, which was that dogs who have been dumped are scared and hungry, and will come to food. It makes them easy to catch. The ones that are the problem belong to some yahoo who moves to the country and just kicks his dog outside for the night. By dawn they have done their damage and are back home sleeping it off. Dog, wolf or coyote, poison bait is the solution.

 

[fidowanttobe]

I have several co-workers that wonder why I live 'so far away' from work (<30 miles) and don't care about repairing the gravel drive or raising chickens or our dogs. These selfish city folk want to just work and go home and think they they are 'living the dream'. They are all nuts.[/QUOTE]

"You mean you spent all weekend working outside??? Hrmph! I watched football."
Yeah, I'M the foolish one!

 

[fidowanttobe]

"I could NEVER live all the way out here. WAY too far to drive."

That's fine, less population out here. Little do they know, with highway speeds, I can be at the businesses bordering the town quicker than they can.

 

[dickfoster]

I have several co-workers that wonder why I live 'so far away' from work (<30 miles) and don't care about repairing the gravel drive or raising chickens or our dogs. These selfish city folk want to just work and go home and think they they are 'living the dream'. They are all nuts.

"You mean you spent all weekend working outside??? Hrmph! I watched football."
Yeah, I'M the foolish one![/QUOTE]

Hey you said it. What did you gain by sitting on your arse watching someone else do something? It's kinda like watching someone else have sex. If you need further explanation for that then you're quite beyond all hope. LOL