Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for September 19, 2024

Time to buy a cordless trimmer.

That hedge gets shorter every year!

This year didn’t cut any water hoses with the weed eater. Didn’t do much weed eating either.

When I bought a hedge trimmer 30+ years ago, the first thing I cut was the cord. But only once.

That’s why the better trimmers have orange cords. The best trimmers are battery powered with a battery pack that will fit the other tools made by the same manufacturer.

Well, like always, it lased through the Summer!

Still trying for that definitive electrocution.

Shocked that he knew how to replace the plug.

I’m not sure I’d trust his wiring job.

Maybe try replacing the plug on the long piece of cord?

I came across something called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which is a study of the current iteration of wilful ignorance. It’s an interesting read. I thought it was a recent manifestation, but I came across an interesting remark made on an old Perrry Mason episode. In it, one man addresses another as exhibiting “The enormous ego of the ignorant man.” At least back them we knew how to recognize it.

observing our former idiot neighbor struggling to drag the cord while using his brush cutter in his huge yard was always entertaining, even despite the horrendous racket. he was a perfect example of how stupid people adopt the dumbest approach when presented with any given problem…