See that red button on the left? That is a really important button. I know this, now, after attempting to start my lawn mower. By pulling the pull cord. Twenty-plus times. By then, I was ready to 'kick start' the lawn mower with some actual kicking, or at least some gratuitous, colorful verbiage. I almost went ninja on Ryobi. Seriously, it almost got nunchucked.
But instead, I burst into tears and went inside to call my husband and ask him, "Why can't I start the lawn mower? I'm holding the yellow handle down and pulling the cord, and it just won't work! I know I'm doing it right!"
He called me back. Several hours later. Several hours after, thank God, the lawn mower miraculously started the twenty-third or twenty-fifth time I pulled the cord. Thus, I mowed the lawn, and came inside to discover not so much a blister, rather a large piece of skin, falling off my thumb. But I digress.
And Hubby says, "Did you try pushing the button on the front of the mower?"
I replied, "What button? What button on the front of the mower?"
Hubby, "The red button on the front of the mower. You're supposed to press it before you begin pulling the cord. It, like, gives the engine the little kick of gasoline it needs to start up on the first pull."
NO. I did not know this button existed. Perhaps the person who gave me the tutorial on how to use the lawn mower before he left for Virginia forgot to point out and explain the little, red button to me. Glad we got that settled.
Luckily, that was last week. This week? I seriously kicked my lawn's butt. :) On the 2nd pull!
