All power tools are noisy, but the gasoline operated tools designed for mowing lawns and blowing leaves are an affront to humanity and nature, not only because of noise and smell, but because they are designed to do an incomprehensibly counterproductive task for the sake of owners misguided sense of ego and 'curb appeal'.

Cue the torrent of entitled comments explaining to me that they like their freshly cut lawns (not by them of course, but by minimum wage landscapers) and consider it their fundamental human right.

Hey, I hate lawns too but if you must have one then it should probably be kept at a reasonable length.

Of course watering it every day then cutting it in the summer (rather then just let it turn a bit brown and stop growing) is idiocy.