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To: Tommaso who wrote (23133)	8/11/2004 4:32:27 PM
From: C.N.S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Note that Recoil is News Parody, Satire Magazine I loved the article (even though I know it was made up). I liked the kid's spunk.

To: Tommaso who wrote (23133)	8/11/2004 5:02:34 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<The going rate in the United States is usually $20 for a small lawn.>> Wow! I pay $48 per month for a little over half an acre, and the crew isn't a bunch of kids. It's a family-owned company of Americans whose only partly international-looking staff arrive in a fancy truck pulling a big shiny van with company logo hand-painted on both sides, out of which they pull huge professional mowing machines, string trimmers and blowers. It's my understanding that most of their customers are corporate/business and they mostly do office building/shopping center maintenance. My neighbors can hardly believe the low price I'm paying (hasn't gone up but one time in past several years), and a few have hired the same firm just based on my recommendation and how nice the lawn looks. I don't know what they have to pay this firm, but they all have smaller lawns than mine. $20 for a typical small yard? Not around here. The little kid across the street from my Dad mows Dad's quarter-acre lawn for $30. When my sons were around to mow Grandpa's lawn, they cut him a bargain deal of $20 per week.