I live in a small town.  But every single nice day the pleasant quiet you'd expect to hear is buried in the incessant droning of lawnmowers.  It's seems there's always somebody within earshot cutting their grass.  What is with this grass cutting obsession anyways?  Most of these people are NEVER out in their yards anyways.  The only time they go out is to cut the grass.  Why not just plant some trees and let the grass go wild?