The Gardener Vs, the Aliens

OK, I think it's time for another alien story. Imagine your favorite news caster telling you this story...


In Gardenville, New Jersey, an avid gardener reports a very strange occurrence. Last Saturday, he was out in his garden, planting his new garden for this year. Well, as he was working hard at planting this here and that there, he suddenly noticed a cool breeze that wasn’t there before. He looked up and saw that a small space ship was landing in his back yard.
At first, his reaction was, "No! My lawn! Your going to put ruts in my lawn!" After that, he was astonished to see that the ship was not going to land all the way, but instead hovered a short distance from the ground. He then saw two aliens appear in his lawn, like they had beamed out from their ship like they do on Star Trek.
The two aliens walked over to him and greeted him in perfect English. "Hello earthling friend. We want to congratulate you."
The man was automatically suspicious. "What for?" asked the man.
They responded, "Why, for the award we are going to give you of course."
"Award?" he asked.
"Yes. We are the heads of the interstellar garden committee. It’s our job to look all over the galaxy at every single garden, and award the ones who qualify for various different awards. We try to give out our awards about once every 10 of your years. Well, anyway, it’s that time again, and after searching the whole galaxy, we have determined that you do qualify for one of our awards."
Well, the man reports that at that time, he was feeling really good about himself. After all, he was getting an award that no body else in the galaxy was getting. His heart sank and he got angry when he heard the next words out of their mouths.
"Jasper, give it to him."
"Oh yeah. Here you go. We now award you for having the ugliest of all gardens in the galaxy for ten straight years!"
"WHAT!" the man shouted. "UGLIEST! You came all the way over hear to tell me that my garden was UGLY?!"
"Well, we also wanted to mention to you that your lawn was very well kept, in sharp contrast to your garden. That’s why we couldn’t bear to land on it."
"WHY, YOOOOOUUUUUU!" shouted the man as he chased them with his shovel over his head, ready to swing at them as soon as he caught up with them.
"Well, Jasper, I tried to tell you he would get angry."
And then, just as quickly as they were there, they were gone.