Warning:  This Entry Contains a High Level of TGF.  The Gross Factor.  Please do not read any further, if you can’t handle a candid discussion on the topic of bodily excretions and such.

Today my dog pooped right in front of Joe.  Not just any Joe.  Not Joe Dirt and NOT Joe Mamma….. no.

You see…..we were walking through Washington Park, and Frances, dropped the mother load right smack dab in front of the Honorable Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr….

Imagine my dismay.  I mean.  I’m trying to fit in down here.  I am already shunned for my Sock Monkey Hat.  I eat WAY more than my quota of Hominy Grits.  And now this.

At first, I saw this little dapper dude, standing there, just looking well-turned-out and pleasant enough.  Then Frances sauntered right up to his little sear-suckered suit….. and made boom booms.  Not little ones, but colossal boom booms.  Right at the toes  of Mayor Riley’s high polished Penny Loafers.

Thankfully, I had plenty of plastic bags with me, as I always do when I walk with my canine friends. (I know if I pooped on the sidewalk, they would probably clean up after me if they could.  Soooooo…… I do the same for my dog friends.)

Anyhow, Mayor Riley is quite a fixture in Charleston, SC.  He has been the mayor of this amazing city for more than 25 years.  He is widely considered one of the most visionary and highly effective governmental leaders in America.  (More on our Mayor) It probably isn’t the first time the mayor has been crapped on.  But it WAS the first time my dog has pooped on or near an elected official…..especially one so acclaimed as he.

I just smiled and cleaned up the pile.  I thanked him for the little plastic baggies that the city provides at the parks for times such as these… and then I said it….. it just slipped out.  I said, “Yes.  A good show of our tax dollars at work, old man.”  He thought I was being a wise-acre.  But I was all in on this one.  The police were summoned and it ended up being a long afternoon.

And the worst of it….. Joe doesn’t like me or my dog.  So much for my Palmetto Tree tattoo…..