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To think he should leaf blow somewhere else?

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Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 10:19

I'm sitting in a ten acre park waiting for an exercise class to start while drinking a coffee. I'm the only person sat in this park. There are some other people around but they're all moving through to somewhere else.

Is it unreasonable to think that the guy with the incredibly loud petrol power leaf blower should be blowing the leaves in another area first, rather than right beside my bench?

Leaf blower not lead blood!! Why can't we edit titles?

OP posts:
WLINewbie · 10/11/2025 12:24

I'm really chuffed with myself at working out the title mistake before I opened the thread 😅

ThatCyanCat · 10/11/2025 12:18

Well that wasn't the story I was expecting.

Original poster
Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 12:14

Apologies to everyone hoping for something more exciting, I'd have been really disappointed to open the thread myself.

🤣😂🤣

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Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 12:13

JLou08 · 10/11/2025 11:31

This is up there with one of the most entitled posts I've seen. Why should someone change the way they do their job to accommodate you sitting in a park. Should he do another area every time someone sits down? How do you expect he would finish his job if more people come and sit in the park?

But there weren't any other people sitting on any of the 29 other benches around that park (yes it's flat and square and you can see them all) and this thread would never had been started if there had been.

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Andromed0 · 10/11/2025 12:10

Come on, you're joking, right? The gardener can't be expected to change his route every time someone sits down with a coffee. He has a job to do. You can move!

BunnyLake · 10/11/2025 12:05

You should be glad the park is being maintained.

Harrysmummy246 · 10/11/2025 11:55

Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 10:19

I'm sitting in a ten acre park waiting for an exercise class to start while drinking a coffee. I'm the only person sat in this park. There are some other people around but they're all moving through to somewhere else.

Is it unreasonable to think that the guy with the incredibly loud petrol power leaf blower should be blowing the leaves in another area first, rather than right beside my bench?

Leaf blower not lead blood!! Why can't we edit titles?

He needs to do his job. Or would you rather slip arse over tit on wet leave sludge when you deign to leave.

Nanatobethatsme46 · 10/11/2025 11:51

Its not a park solely for your use.you are not the queen
Why should he avoid working in the area you are sat in?
Madness

Imisscoffee2021 · 10/11/2025 11:49

Hell be on automatic and doing the job the efficient way, People turn up anytime and sit and use public spaces so if gardeners responded by moving their loud work then they'd get nothing done in time.

No5ChalksRoad · 10/11/2025 11:46

Lastfroginthebox · 10/11/2025 11:39

So he's working and you're just sitting around? Wouldn't it be better if you moved so he could get on with his job without disturbing you?

It’s hardly life-or-death necessity to blast leaves around.

most leaf blower operators i observe spend far longer than need be, aimlessly wagging those stupid things to and fro.

JamieCannister · 10/11/2025 11:39

Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 10:19

I'm sitting in a ten acre park waiting for an exercise class to start while drinking a coffee. I'm the only person sat in this park. There are some other people around but they're all moving through to somewhere else.

Is it unreasonable to think that the guy with the incredibly loud petrol power leaf blower should be blowing the leaves in another area first, rather than right beside my bench?

Leaf blower not lead blood!! Why can't we edit titles?

I find it hard to imagine a scenario where the leaf blower guy couldn't blow leaves elsewhere first, and only get to the occupied bench(es) if / when necessary.

I suppose there could be some scenario where there is only one sensible route around the park blowing, and that involves starting precisely where you were.

Lastfroginthebox · 10/11/2025 11:39

So he's working and you're just sitting around? Wouldn't it be better if you moved so he could get on with his job without disturbing you?

JLou08 · 10/11/2025 11:31

This is up there with one of the most entitled posts I've seen. Why should someone change the way they do their job to accommodate you sitting in a park. Should he do another area every time someone sits down? How do you expect he would finish his job if more people come and sit in the park?

HedwigEliza · 10/11/2025 11:15

He’s working. If you don’t like it, move.

No5ChalksRoad · 10/11/2025 11:08

Leaf blowers are the spawn of Satan. Loud, polluting and devastating to insect life.

5128gap · 10/11/2025 11:07

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 10:45

And if she moves, the guy will say that ‘she pointedly move away from him when e was just doing his job’ and that ‘she didn’t have to make a point like this that she thought HE was a nuisance’.

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I very much doubt it. However she could have minimised this tiny risk with an "I'll get out of your way mate". Amazed at how many people seem to turn the most basic interactions with others into a three act drama.

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 10/11/2025 11:06

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 11:02

im Not. That’s how I’d take such a move.
And that’s exactly how the guy understood it if he then went to apologise to the OP

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And if she moves, the guy will say that ‘she pointedly move away from him when e was just doing his job’ and that ‘she didn’t have to make a point like this that she thought HE was a nuisance’.

Is not the same as him realising he inconvenienced her and apologising.

So yes, you did just make up a whole narrative with no basis whatsoever.

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 11:02

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 10/11/2025 10:49

Why are you just making stuff up?

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im Not. That’s how I’d take such a move.
And that’s exactly how the guy understood it if he then went to apologise to the OP

lljkk · 10/11/2025 10:59

I was thinking that if he knows the exercise class will start soon, maybe he starts in that area so that he can't inconvenience the group of exercisers later.

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 10/11/2025 10:49

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 10:45

And if she moves, the guy will say that ‘she pointedly move away from him when e was just doing his job’ and that ‘she didn’t have to make a point like this that she thought HE was a nuisance’.

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Why are you just making stuff up?

HappyGilmorex · 10/11/2025 10:48

Imdunfer · 10/11/2025 10:34

I wonder if someone in the Council is on Mumsnet 🤣. He just finished talking a phone call and come over and apologised!

Did he, aye.

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 10:48

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 10:45

And if she moves, the guy will say that ‘she pointedly move away from him when e was just doing his job’ and that ‘she didn’t have to make a point like this that she thought HE was a nuisance’.

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And having read the update re the guy apologising this is exactly how he read it…..

The OP moving was read as a PA way to show her annoyance at the noise etc….

HappyGilmorex · 10/11/2025 10:46

He's doing a job, OP. You probably wouldn't appreciate it if random strangers expected you to arrange your work for their convenience rather than just letting you get on with it.

As an aside, the sheer bravery of drinking a coffee before an exercise class is dazzling me 😂

MaurineWayBack · 10/11/2025 10:45

MD2020and10LambertandButlerPlease · 10/11/2025 10:24

Why don't you move instead of expecting the man working a tedious job to stop what he's doing for your convenience?

And if she moves, the guy will say that ‘she pointedly move away from him when e was just doing his job’ and that ‘she didn’t have to make a point like this that she thought HE was a nuisance’.

AllPlayedOut · 10/11/2025 10:42

5128gap · 10/11/2025 10:33

Funny how different people view things. If I was sitting somewhere that someone needed to do some work on, my manners would motivate me to get out of their way. I think it says a lot about a person sense of self importance in relation to service workers if they think the worker should always give way.

Likewise.