Electric lawn mower
When I was a kid, I was the one who usually cut the grass. I did it almost every Saturday morning, weather permitting, with an old machine like this. It’s how I earned my allowance - a couple bucks a week. It also led me to cutting grass for many people in the neighborhood who had no children of their own to do the chore. It was a little business I had going.
Did you ever run over your extension cord with your electric lawn mower? I hate when that happens. I often used an (orange) extension cord that had at least one section of black electric tape repair in it. Many years later, after I had stopped cutting the grass, my family got a gasoline powered machine. I used it a few times, even though my Grass Cutting Era had run its course, and its power was impressive, but ….