John Henry

Being the environmentally conscientious sort that I am, I went out to WalFart and bought myself a new push mower. Besides helping to reduce gas emissions, it’s good exercise to be running up and down the lawn with a push mower. Plus it doesn’t do a half bad job of cutting the grass. But the biggest bonus is that I get to smile and wave at John across the road and rub his nose in it. John’s the competitive type and likes to buy the biggest of everything. He has the biggest home on the street, the biggest car, the biggest dog and – of course – the biggest lawn mower – a Henry 2000.

There I’ll be in the heat of a summer’s day pushing my push mower back and forth and John’ll smile his smarmy smile and wave his wavey wave and ask how I like working up a sweat.

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