What is the Parable of the Mower?

The Parable of the Mower is from the Apocryphal book The Gospel of Suburban Dad. It goes something like this:

A dad went out to mow his lawn.

As he hit the driveway, cut grass flew all over because he believed in mulching instead of bagging. It got on his kids' shoes and they tracked it into the house.

When he mowed over the gravel walk, the blades caught some small rocks. The rocks flew up and punched a hole in the storm door.

Then he mowed over his wife's flowerbed and decapitated the geraniums. She was not amused.

Once he was back on the lawn, he completed his carefully crafted hatch pattern which was the envy of the neighborhood.

When he came inside, his wife did not offer to mow next time, as he had hoped. She made him vacuum the grass off the carpet, replace the pane in the storm door, and buy her more annuals at Lowe's.

Whoever has ears, let them hear.

The moral of the story is that if you are careless, you will wind up with more work than when you began. If you're careful, your yard will be green and lush like the wheat from the seed that fell on the good soil in the Parable of the Sower.

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