Been in the game 15 years, and after a while you start to evolve your own words for some of the Jobs/Conditions/Customers.
These are ours, Just wondering if anyone has many others.
GLARDEN - You know those bits of grass the size of a doormat, that are surrounded by plantings. The ones you have to whipper snip because it's just too small or fiddly to mow. Or the area that was once a garden, but is overgrown with grass to the point where the customer asks you to mow it. Kind of like the word "cankles" where you cannot tell the difference between the calves and the ankles. I hate glardens !!
LABRADOR PLANTING/GARDEN - You know how Labrador pups (they are pups till 10 years old) tend to dig little holes at random all over the yard and bury things. Well some people are similar. Like a vegetarian labrador, (supposedly intelligent) they dig little random holes in the lawn and bury plants in them. Sure it makes it awkward to mow, but hey, that's what we're for. After many years this can often evolve into a "Gymkhana lawn" or "Glarden"
SHERPA GRASS - Those bits of "lawn" that grow on the side of an embankment or steep slope. Blokes that cut sherpa grass on a regular basis end up with one leg shorter than the other and a pair of billygoat horns.
GYMKHANA LAWN - (or "commando course") An easy lawn, or it would be if it wasn't covered with Potplants, Garden furniture, ornaments, swing sets, trampolines, random trees and sherpa grass.
ELEPHANT GRASS - Tall enough to hide an Elephant in - Usually found on rental properties following the customer's usual cry of "can you do it tomorrow?, I've got an inspection" . Probably hasn't been mown since last inspection.
PENTRIDGE - (or prison of your choice) Every gate, every access, is locked or blocked.
LITTERATI - Those customers who are incapable of using a garbage bin, or too important to tidy anything.
PLAYPEN - Lawn scattered with kids stuff, bikes, scooters, leggo, hot wheels(lethal projectile), shoes/socks, dad's tools, mum's pots - basically anything a kid can fiddle with.
STEPTOE - Like a "playpen" in adult version. Remember "Steptoe & son" on telly?
MASON'S - Yes, you have found the secret abode of a member of the Stonemason's Lodge. Piles of bricks, lumps of concrete, chunks of rock, accompanied by various building materials like rusty iron, dryrot timber, and old windows. All hidden secretly, buried in the turf or hidden in overgrown grass.
LAND MINE (dog bomb, barker egg, etc) no description required.
CAT NUKE - The small but extremely devestating equivalent of a dog bomb. You won't see them, but by god you'll know when you hit one.
SNAIL FACE - hit a garden snail just right with the trimmer and you'll need to clean your safety glasses before you continue.
WHIFFER IN THE SNIFFER - another line trimmer related hazard. A land mine, cat nuke or snail face that splats its way right into your nostril and sticks there. Visually entertaining for your offsider as you try to remove the intruder from your nostrils while shuddering and performing a little dance.
SO - WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR'S???