Walking the dog yesterday through the snow, I was trying to be careful not to step in anything. People tend not to clean up after their pets when it snows for some reason. Anyway it brought to mind a time I DID step in something......
One summer when I was in college at OSU my room mate insisted on fixing me up with her boyfriend's friend. They were both chemical engineers at Wright-Pat- not my type at all!! After much prodding-I finally reluctantly agreed to a double date.
Lennie (her boyfriend) and ? (I can't even remember his name- let's just call him Jeff) turned up in a convertible and we packed a picnic lunch and headed to Griggs Dam. It was a beautiful day. The picnic was nice; we hiked around for a while, but believe me there was NO chemistry. Finally we headed home. I was sitting in the back seat with "Jeff" and I began to smell something nasty. So I start thinking things like, "Doesn't this guy use deoderant?". and "How long since he's washed his underwear?".... you get the picture! I was outraged as my senses were assaulted! We got back to our house- a double we were renting on North Fourth Street, and I barely said goodbye. I couldn't wait to get away! I flounced out of the car and up two flights of stairs to my room thinking VERY unkind thoughts. Then I began to realize that the smell had followed me . I looked down and the MOTHER of ALL DOG TURDS was wrapped around my shoe. How I could not have seen it I will never know as it was a putrid orange color and curved up each side of my shoe a good 3-4 inches.I guess it truly was a blind date and I was the one who was blind!! I had tracked it all the way through the house and up the stairs!! This was a big lesson to me about being self righteous!
But it was funny. I laughed until I cried, all the while scrubbing those two sets of stairs.
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