Death, Taxes, and now Water your yard
Of course, in some other places under water restrictions, they might beat and arrest people for not halting the yard watering.
If this old lady had good neighbors, instead of self-centered busybodies who happened to live on the same street, the problem would have long since been solved.
I used to shovel the driveway and sidewalk of the old widow lady next door after snowfalls. That's just what was done out in our part of the country when I was a young man, and my parents would really let me have it if I didn't take care of old Mrs. Clark when I was doing our own driveway.
But now, God forbid any of the local teenage layabouts should have to drop the Game-Boy for twenty minutes' honest sweat looking after an elderly neighbor's yard.
-ccm
Wonder what they would think about lawns in the South in the 1960’s. People did not have lawn movers. There yards were stripped of all grass and you would sweep them with a broom. LOL.