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The Guardian - AU
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Sian Cain

Fran Lebowitz: ‘Hiking is the most stupid thing I could ever imagine’

Fran Lebowitz in a library
Fran Lebowitz: ‘I’m sure I have more than one nemesis. I’m sure I have them by the dozen’. Photograph: Adrienne Grunwald

I would like to ask your opinion on five things. First of all, leaf blowers.

A horrible, horrible invention. I didn’t even know about them until like 20 years ago when I rented a house in the country. I was shocked! I live in New York City, we don’t have leaf problems. We have every other kind of problem. When I was a kid, we had leaf raking. Which is quiet. Leaf blowers are the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. First of all, they are incredibly noisy. And second of all, 10 minutes after you use it, that big leaf blower in the sky blows them all back. It’s a very stupid invention.

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