Monopolistic Lawn Mower
It turns out that your neighbour next door is not — like you expected — a small house with a green lawn, but instead, a giant, concrete, multi-national office tower.
It turns out also, that they do nothing but sell lawn mowers. As a matter of fact, they’re the only guys in town who sell lawn mowers. You also learn that they, being the monopoly that they are, charge a hella expensive fee for their mowers.
Furthur more, it turns out that their mowers aren’t the sharpest tool in the shed: they jam up and try to run you over now and then. You then think to yourself: “I’m getting ripped off by the monopolistic crap… I ain’t paying for it”. So you end up buying stolen mowers.
But, alas! It turn out that one day, that your corporate-conglomerate of a neighbour next door decides to go through all the trouble and hires “contractors” just so that they can break into your garage in the middle of the night and make your mower behave erratically — it still works, but becomes an annoyance when you use it.
Familiar story? This is no fairy tale.
