Those people.

In the poker world there is a saying:  If you don't know who the sucker is in the first five minutes of the game then you're the sucker.

Here in Texas lawns are a competitive sport.  I'm not inclined to do yard work but I want the grass to be green, thick, lush, and dare I say it...decadent.

At our last house the neighbor's brother was a landscape guy and he about half of the houses in the neighborhood; I think that he accidentally did ours right before a party because they didn't want their "area" to look bad because our grass wasn't as trimmed as theirs.  At this house the yard was going to be done in the late afternoon; a neighbor asked if we wanted him to do our yard. 

I looked around at the other houses in the area and I had an epiphany:  We are those people that always has the yard just not as nice as the others.  Ours is greener but theirs is neater.  My mother would approve of the lush green color but she would sigh because of the unkempt look of it.  We might have to buy a lawn mower now.