Georgie’s lawnmower broke down after one lawn. The spark plug was fouled. My father, exhausted from the fence, refused to fix it. Georgie was defeated.
I was nine. My father, George Sr., had spent his Saturday morning fixing our neighbor’s broken cyclone fence. Not out of kindness—but because she was a widow and my mother, Mary, had volunteered him. For payment, the neighbor gave us her dead husband’s old lawnmower. young sheldon s01e04 m4a
Back home, I explained to Georgie: A fouled spark plug can be temporarily cleaned by snapping a rubber band into the gap to scrape off carbon deposits. It’s not a permanent fix, but it buys you three more lawns. Georgie’s lawnmower broke down after one lawn