Stephen King - The Lawnmower Man

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THE LAWNMOWER MAN

In previous years, Harold Parkette had always taken pride in his lawn. He had owned a large silver Lawnboy and

paid the boy down the block five dollars per cutting to push it. In those days Harold Parkette had followed the

Boston Red Sox on the radio with a beer in his hand and the knowledge that God was in his heaven and all was

right with the world, including his lawn. But last year, in mid-October, fate had played Harold Parkette a nasty

trick. While the boy was mowing the grass for the last time of the season, the Castonmeyers' dog had chased the

Smiths' cat under the mower.

Harold's daughter had thrown up half a quart of cherry Kool-Aid into the lap of her new jumper, and his wife had

nightmares for a week afterwards. Although she had arrived after the fact, she had arrived in time to see Harold

and the green-faced boy cleaning the blades. Their daughter and Mrs Smith stood over them, weeping, although

Alicia had taken time enough to change her jumper for a pair of blue jeans and one of those disgusting skimpy

sweaters. She had a crush on the boy who mowed the lawn.

After a week of listening to his wife moan and gobble in the next bed, Harold decided to get rid of the mower. He

didn't really need a mower anyway, he supposed. He had hired a boy this year; next year he would just hire a boy

and a mower. And maybe Carla would stop moaning in her sleep. He might even get laid again.

So he took the silver Lawnboy down to Phil's Sunoco, and he and Phil dickered over it. Harold came away with a

brand-new Kelly blackwall tyre and a tankful of hi-test, and Phil put the silver Lawnboy out on one of the pump

islands with a hand-lettered FOR SALE sign on it.

And this year, Harold just kept putting off the necessary hiring. When he finally got around to calling last year's

boy, his mother told him Frank had gone to the state university. Harold shook his head in wonder and went to the

refrigerator to get a beer. Time certainly flew, didn't it? My God, yes.

He put off hiring a new boy as first May and then June slipped past him and the Red Sox continued to wallow in

fourth place. He sat on the back porch on the weekends and watched glumly as a never ending progression of

young boys he had never seen before popped out to mutter a quick hello before taking his buxom daughter off to

the local passion pit. And the grass thrived and grew in a marvellous way. It was a good summer for grass; three

days of shine followed by one of gentle rain, almost like clockwork.

By mid-July, the lawn looked more like a meadow than a suburbanite's backyard, and Jack Castonmeyer had

begun to make all sorts of extremely unfunny jokes, most of which concerned the price of hay and alfalfa. And

Don Smith's four-year-old daughter Jenny had taken to hiding in it when there was oatmeal for breakfast or

spinach for supper.

One day in late July, Harold went out on the patio during the seventh-inning stretch and saw a woodchuck sitting

perkily on the overgrown back walk. The time had come, he decided. He flicked off the radio, picked up the

paper, and turned to the classifieds. And halfway down the Part Time column, he found this: Lawns mowed.

Reasonable.

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