New Lawn Mower

Today, I was about to mow the yard with our used 20 year old self-propelled Honda lawn mower that we got for $100 from a place that sells used lawn mowers. I got it out, and loaded it up with more gasoline, and tried to start it, but it wouldn't start. My dad came over to help me, but he couldn't get it started. So we hooked the spark plug up to it on the outside of it, to see if we could get a spark-didn't happen on two spark plugs that we tried. Daddy then went over to a used lawn mower place to see how much a new coil would cost. He found out that it would cost $126.00! I then called another used lawn mower store, and they gave me an estimate that it would cost about $89.99! Daddy and I then decided that we needed to get a new lawn mower. We first stopped at Costco, which had an MTD Pro which had a Honda engine, and was self-propelled, but it would've cost us with tax over $400.00! We then proceeded to Lowes where we found a Troy-Bilt that was self-propelled and had a Honda engine, but it was about the same price MTD Pro, just about $10 cheaper. Daddy and I then went to Home Depot, where we found a Cub Cadet that was self-propelled and had a Honda engine, and it was only $259.99 plus a 3 year warranty. We went ahead and purchased it, took it home to use on our front yard, and it work fine. My dad then humored himself by going over to our old Honda and just trying to see if it would start after we had bought our Cub Cadet. He pulled the pulley, and it started! I guess that sometimes in life things need to have a little rest before going back to them and trying them again.

P.S.-We will still probably be keeping the Cub Cadet.