On the relativity of accomplishment

[beowabbit]

+  Yay! My brick walkway is mowed! Woo-hoo! I totally rule!
−  Wait, my brick walkway needed to be mowed?

Comments

[xauenmurph.livejournal.com]

I kinda like mowable driveways (if not lawns generally). Let the soil breathe.

Trivially, I enjoy telling people how shaggy mane mushrooms can grow through asphalt, and Pisolithus arrhizus (dead man's foot) fungus can push up flagstones and even destroy sidewalk.