Dog (Shit) Days of Summer

At the end of the summer the libraries opened and I resumed reserving and picking up books when they were ready.

One beautiful day at the end of August I took my bundle buggy and headed out to get my books and do some grocery shopping too.

Since the cart was empty, I tucked it up under my arm and carried it, cursing the wind that thought my bag was a sail and kept pushing on it. I held it in tighter.

As I got near the library I noticed something brown on my leg. When I stopped, I noticed something brown on my shirt. I noticed something brown and slimy on one of the wheels of my bundle buggy. And when I stopped to further examine this brown something, I discovered I had it ALL over me. My shirt, my pants, my legs and my purse!

That brown something was dog shit that I must have run over with the cart before I picked it up to carry it!

Fortunately, I always wear latex gloves. Double fortunate it had rained the night before, and I found a puddle in a parking lot and well, with a little ingenuity, that did the trick, more or less!

Lately weird things like this have been happening to me. Makes me laugh!