Our lawn mower saga...

I bought a lawn mower in August of 2006 from Sears with a two year warranty (we will call it Cutty). As luck would have it, in September of 2008 Cutty died, one month AFTER the warranty expired!! We bought another mower about a week later from Sears with a two year warranty (we will call it Nipper). A week after we purchased Nipper we received a letter in the mail that stated we could renew our warranty on Cutty!! I had already used Nipper so I couldn't return him. We gave Cutty to Toni's dad so he could tinker with it. About a month after Nipper joined our family, I ran over a tree stump and screwed up his gas line. It was, of course, not covered on the warranty because it wasn't a manufacturer defect. I paid $168 for Nipper and the repairs were $138!!! CRAZY.

Yesterday, Toni and I left the house around 10:30 a.m. Nipper and the leaf blower were sitting under the carport as they have been for months. Toni's dad came over about 1 p.m. to borrow our shop vac. We returned home about 2 p.m. to find Nipper and blower gone. We assumed it was Toni's dad. I didn't think anything of it until I wanted to mow the backyard today. I called Toni's dad and asked if he had our mower. He said no and that it wasn't on the carport when he borrowed the shop vac. Nipper and blower were STOLEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!!! Cutty also sat there for TWO YEARS and nobody stole it. I know our economy sucks right now but really??

I have lived in this house for 9 years and I have never had anything stolen. I actually went to South Carolina for 4 days and came home to my door wide open (literally) and nothing was stolen. Now that our economy is all screwy people want to steal a freakin' push mower of all things. It's not even the self-propelled mower. I just don't get it. Believe me when we buy another mower I am bolting it either to the carport or to Sadie (our red-nosed pitbull). I don't think they will come back if they come in contact with her. hahaha