Lawn Jobs

Grant, you’ll recall our conversation with Todd.

He called us about the term cutting donuts.

You know, you’re driving your car and you start cutting donuts in the parking lot or something.

Yeah, I remember that mischief maker.

Yes.

Todd said that the term for that in where he grew up in Kentucky was cutting donuts, but then he went to South Dakota, I think, and people there called it spinning cookies.

That’s right.

Gun the motor and make the car go around.

We got a voicemail from Kevin in Chicago who says, we just called them lawn jobs, which sounds ominous to me.

Oh, yeah.

Lawn job is, yeah, a job.

There is a, yeah, there’s a sub-slangy meaning of job, which means something bad, something that was done bad.

Like often it’s a synonym for a hit, like a murder for hire.

Well, yeah, and if you’re kind of murdering somebody’s lawn, I mean, that’s what he said.

It implied that you were doing it in somebody’s yard, and apparently that’s a thing in Chicago, lawn jobs.

But they also talk about the business that a dog does in your yard as a job.

Yeah.

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