Jul22

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MY FAVORITE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORHOOD POST OF THE WEEK (with responses)

Especially the first sentence

 

My robot lawn mower drove itself into my free pile and someone took it. Which is fair. It looked free. It was not free. If you’re now the owner of a white Navimow you didn’t expect to have this week, I’d like it back! Happy to give you something for your trouble. No questions, no hard feelings — it just works for a living and I’d like it to come home. =) Also whatever to the bozo who took the container for the pop-top thingies but left the thingies ?! C’mon! 

Oh no! I’m sorry this happened to you. Here’s hoping robots of the future show better judgment than to hop in a free pile!

Disappointed I didn’t hear about the free pile. 

UGH! I put out a shelving unit. Someone took the shelf boards, left the unit for me to have to dispose of, because who wants a shelf unit without any shelves?

A robot lawn mower… I had no idea such a thing existed! I hope you get it back. 

Sorry to hear that. Had no idea how expensive they are. Hope it returns. If it is like my IRobot Roomba they can shut it down.it doesn’t have gps to help locate it?

 it does have gps, but not to “phone home” … for that it’d need a cellular modem or something.

·Not to pour salt on the wound, but did you find it worth the money? The fact that it did not go around the pile is a bummer – my neighbor has one and it does a terrible job of mowing. 

You see these robot lawn mowers all over the place in Europe.  If you stand in front of them, they will stop and wait for you to move.  If you do not move they try to move around you. 

This reminds me of the scary sweeper they have at Sam’s Club. It only stops if you’re certain height. I saw a mother having to pull her child away from this crazy thing.

I have had people go shopping around my house when I had free stuff out. I had a table taken, a shovel by the front garden, and some other minor things. Sorry about your mower, that is not a minor thing.

When I was a kid my dad made a “robot” mower from a little tykes trike. I helped with something but not much. This was early seventies and it mowed about 100 ft. before my dad put int the crawl space. It now hangs in my garage.

Edit:  It has been RETURNED !!!  Thank you, bozo !!!  (Wait, wait … you’re not the bozo — the person who messed with the little thing-a-majigs is. You’re the hero of this story! Robot says thanks !!

What a happy ending. almost like a Disney movie.

 

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‘i don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.’

-Queen Latifah

 

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  4. had I seen something like that in a FREE pile, the first thing I would have done, was to knock on the door and ask what was wrong with it, that it would be in a FREE pile. no answer? I would have left it, because if it WERE to be FREE, it most likely be due to the fact that it did NOT work… just me, I guess

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  6. Neighbourhood and communities are so interesting – filled with quirky events and characters!

    I also did not realize robot lawn mowers were a thing!

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  9. Here, nearly everybody with the tiniest stretch of lawn has one of those ‘darn’ mowers. One of my bros-in-law is being driven mad by the mower of the ppl in the garden flat. The let it ‘loose’ at any time, the robot ‘checks in’ by itself when low and then starts taking its turns again. They are far too expensive but can be a real help in certain situations.
    I like that it has been returned under an amnesty decree.

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  11. This has been my first sighting of a robot mower. I envisioned them a lot smaller. Now I know!
    Before moving from a house I’d lived in for 8 years, I had very little time to pack and so put a lot of things, including a pool table and its accoutrements, on the front lawn with a “Free” sign. Every single thing was taken except the heavy pool table, which we had to haul away. The shmucks helped themselves to the cues and balls though, the buggers.
    Another time I had a garage sale that included a box of “free stuff.” A wooden plaque with a decoupaged image of kittens on it was all scratched up, and I’d tagged it “Free to a Good Home” and someone actually took that scratched-up thing!
    -Kate

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    • i’ve never seen one of these before either. and for giving away stuff, there is always someone who wants it. i once had a huge rug that i was replacing. i rolled it up and dragged it to the curb. imagine my surprise when a man walking through the neighborhood, lifted it up, slung it over his shoulder and carried it off. a win for both of us –

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  15. Sometimes doing good doesn’t always leave to desired outcomes :)
    Good to do good but will an awareness of humanity’s downfalls or vices or the seven deadly sins, something like that. :)

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