Mowing Expectations

(My friend and I are on vacation in St. Louis. I am originally from a Denver suburb, while she is from southern New Mexico, which is a desert with no ‘suburban’ grass.)

Friend: *points out the window of the bus* “Okay, you probably know… Why does grass do that?”

Me: “Do what? You mean why does it have those lines?”

Friend: “Yeah.”

Me: “Um… because that’s how it’s mowed. It’s mowed in the same pattern every time.”

Friend: “Oh. That’s so weird.”

(It never occurred to me that there is no grass in the desert!)