girl takes on lawn - lawn wins

The lawn was getting quite long and my (male) roommate wasn't able to do it this weekend. So I thought that I better figure it out

Step one - get extremely heavy automatic lawn mower out of shed. Not done well - but successful. It landed with a bit of a thud not sure how I will get it back in but will worry about that later.

Step two - get lawn mower started. Not successful. I tried and tried but could not get it going. Placed three calls to mom for support. Seemed to be doing everything right, but still nothing. Either I am weaker than I thought or lawn mower was damaged on way out of shed.

Step three - Abandon back lawn move to front lawn (there is a manual lawn mower out front as it is too difficult to get the move the power mower down the stairs to the front of the house)If I can get this mower going, I will know that in fact I am not weak, the other one is just broken.

Step four - attach bag to front lawn mower. Not successful. We bought this mower used just before my husband left. The bag must belong to different lawn mower.

Step five - try to start lawn mower without bag. Not successful.

Step six - give up and rebuild self-esteem in more familiar space - the mall