Ooops, I Cut Your Grass

So Brian called me the other day at a time he doesn't normally call (for the record, we're weird and regularly call each other around 11 am and 3:30 pm every day) so I asked if everything was ok.

He asked me if I had hired someone to mow our lawn. This wasn't out of the question as questions go, since we had, that very week, discussed the immediate need to have our lawn mowed. We were going to try it out once to see how much it cost and how long it lasted, because although it would be much cheaper to buy a lawn mower, our lawn is REALLY BIG. And yes, I am trying to brag. Because seriously, in Westchester, especially our area of our town, you do not get a big lawn. Yet we have one. A huge one, which means mowing it would take like 4 hours (ok, maybe not that long, I've never mowed a lawn before so I don't really know).

But no, I had not yet hired anyone to mow our lawn, and told him so. "Well, somebody mowed our lawn." He told me. He was dumbfounded. The whole thing had been done, back, front, sides, plants and flowers tended to, etc. Then he looked over at our next door neighbor's lawn, which was also beautifully groomed. He started wondering if that was coincidence. Then he checked our mailbox and found a business card from a local landscapers that said "Ooops! Enjoy your lawn!"

At first I thought it was a genius marketing strategy, that they mowed our lawn once for free because they knew we'd recently moved to the area and were trying to get our business. I mean, it worked too, because I am going to call them to arrange for a new appointment. But actually, we got further details later that night when our next door neighbor came over (his last name is Fuji, and every time I say it, I think of the Fugees, like Lauryn Hill, Wyclef and Pras live next door to us). So Mr. Fuji (we are so blanking on his first name, and since we totally want to become friends with him, we are hoping we remember it soon) says that apparently the landscaping company mistook our house for his and did the special "spring cleaning" service on it. Which apparently is quite pricely.

So dude, seriously, on the same week in which we determined that our grass was way too long and needed to call a landscaper, a landscaping service ACCIDENTALLY came and groomed our entire lawn. Do you know what I call that? Awesome.