(New Springfield, Ohio 5.25.2008)
This is Mike and his Dixie Chopper, the self-claimed world’s fastest lawnmower. I met him in New Springfield, Ohio which is about 8 miles from where my parents live, and just down the road from North Lima where I took the picture of Purple Phrogg Records later in the day (posed on 5.26).
I asked Mike if he raced his lawnmower, and he said proudly it was only for cutting grass which could be done at speeds up to 15 m.p.h. He was not stoked on gas being $4 per gallon.
Whenever I go back home and meet people like MIke it makes me want to move back to small-town Ohio. I could pick a hobby or two and worry about hardly anything at all.
