THE DEADLY LAWN MOWER FROM: #-$-%-%

Yep, The Deadly Lawn Mower from: R-U-S-T

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The Deadly Lawnmower, from #-&-%-%

Yep, the lawn mower from, RUST

Shortly before the scorpion story, I had a good friend asked me to come to his house. (The Scorpion story is forthcoming). The conversation went something like this. My friend said, “I have something for you. I know you have some land to mow in the country, and I want to give you my old riding lawn mower.”

We walked outside and there was a beautiful, freshly painted green and yellow riding lawn mower. What a great friend, I was thinking to myself.

Nope that is not the one, my friend said. He pulled a cover off, basically a “heap of rust.” And you are my friend? I asked him.

He assured me, if I pour this unknow fluid into the motor, it will fix the engine. So why didn’t you do this already? I asked him. The answer was simple, his wife surprised him with a new mower, and she said the old one must go.

Loading up the riding lawnmower

Well, I did drive a long way, so okay, let’s load it up. I got it home and it would not start. I got the unknown fluid out, and the directions said use 10% of the can. Have you ever tried to pour out 10% of anything, from a can you cannot see inside of…