Introduction and Project Overview

so here's the situation you guys I've been coming to this gas station for years and I've gotten to know the owner pretty well his name is Ali and we were just having a conversation like 15 minutes ago and he's 61 years old and he can't find anybody to help him work the gas station and he says to me Stanley he says you know when I was in my 50s I thought when I got a little bit older I was going to be able to slow down I was going to be able to maybe take it easy he says now I'm 61 years old and I'm working harder than I ever have in my life and I can't find anybody to help me with this place and I know that he's at his wits end and he doesn't have a big budget and so I'm going to go find out if uh maybe just maybe I can uh cut this lawn for him and maybe just help him out a little bit because he does all the work around here himself just just try to make ends meet all right let's go take a look at what we've going to be dealing with here it's not really too bad this is the first mow of the year it's a late year I don't know what it's been like for you guys but in Minnesota we didn't have spring it just went from Winter and then over the weekend it went to Summer knock oh there you are Oli how are you doing buddy good how are you good good to see thank you for letting me uh come out and play I'm going to be uh testing out a brand new lmore it's got 0.0 Z hours on it and uh I after I was talking to you today and you were telling me about you know 61 you wanted to work less you working harder than you've ever worked before and I'm like why the hell don't I just come on over here and mow your give you a hand that save me some money there yep yep if I can help out a friend I'm going to help him out so every day every time I come in here what's the thing you always say say to me Oli do you want a free donut every I said I told you before anytime you feel every time I'm here sometimes he makes me walk away with two free donuts so if you notice the dirt monkey's getting a little bigger well that's that's his fault right there you know I always have oh I could I should tell the company about those uh weeds the yellow ones the dandelion Escape what's that I have nature Escape they come like three times a year oh okay they spray them for you yeah but I have to call them back again okay well anyway yeah so you going to cut it now I'm going to go to cut it right now as long as you're good with it Ali I'm going to get where did you go up there I'm parked right there…