Man offers free lawn mowing to lose weight

[one...two...tree 2,762]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060707/ap_on_...ng_for_health_2

After working up quite a sweat mowing his own lawn this summer, Darrell Nelson thought that he could get a good workout by mowing lawns for other people as well.

So, on the Web site Craig's List, he placed an ad offering to mow lawns for free.

[raymaga 25]

I couldn't open the link, but he doesn't happen to live in the Seattle, WA. area, does he?

I would LOVE for someone to mow my lawn for free.... we have a very big lot, and it takes my husband 1 1/2 hours to mow the lawn, two times a week.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

This is fantastic !!! What a great way to think "outside the box" to achieve your goals.

It not only saves you money on gym fees, but it helps out others, and tidies up our neighborhoods all at the same time.

And.... he's become an instant chick magnet

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And.... he's become an instant chick magnet

Is it the smell of gasoline mixed with sweat that does it for you?

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

And.... he's become an instant chick magnet

Is it the smell of gasoline mixed with sweat that does it for you?

Mixed with the smell of a fresh-cut lawn.... mmmmmmmmm......

[incanada1234 0]

I can't open the link either.

[Octa 0]

I can't open the link either.

Man offers free lawn mowing to lose weight

Fri Jul 7, 7:57 AM ET

####### RAPIDS, Minn. - A local man who has struggled to lose weight is hoping a lawn mower will help him shed between 30 and 50 pounds.

After working up quite a sweat mowing his own lawn this summer, Darrell Nelson thought that he could get a good workout by mowing lawns for other people as well.

So, on the Web site Craig's List, he placed an ad offering to mow lawns for free.

He figures if he eats better and mows a lawn per day nearly every day of the week, he will be able to keep an exercise program going. He said he has a hard time keeping commitments to himself, but he will stick to commitments he makes to others.

"This is no joke or gimmick," he wrote on the Web site. "I need to lose weight. I have struggled on sticking to exercise programs, including just walking, for quite a while now."

Nelson is a former power lifter who's about 5-foot-9 and 258 pounds. Since news of his ad spread, he has fielded calls from the media, strangers — even some women who have asked him out on dates.

"My life has been turned upside down, man, unbelievable," he said. "I was planning on doing five lawns: Mine plus four others. Now, I'm doing six lawns: Mine plus five others. ... I was just trying to do some yards and lose some weight, and it just — voila — away it went."

[incanada1234 0]

Heh, I liked "I was planning on doing five lawns: Mine plus four others. Now, I'm doing six lawns: Mine plus five others..."

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And.... he's become an instant chick magnet

Is it the smell of gasoline mixed with sweat that does it for you?

Mixed with the smell of a fresh-cut lawn.... mmmmmmmmm......

You should market it as a cologne. Call it, "Lawnmower Man"!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

This is genius. People will still tip. Not all, but some.

[Octa 0]

This is genius. People will still tip. Not all, but some.

You are sooo right. My brother mows the lawn for 3 of my parents neighbors for free because they are old and he just gets along with them and wants to help them. Once in a while they do give him around 5 dollars. He refuses to take them and they put it in his pocket or give them to my other brother to hand it to him...

[Sister Fracas 5]

he'll have to switch to leaf/snow blower man some months down the road if he's gonna keep it off...hehehe

Edited July 7, 2006 by Frances