I Have a New Product Invention

This economy has people crabby. I just started doing spring walk throughs and as usual, I had to send out quite a few letters telling people that they need to clean up after their dog does it's business. This usually gets a few phone calls from people who don't have dogs, but other people are letting their dogs make deposits in their yard. I always get at least one person demanding to know how I know it was thier dog.

This time, though, I had a lady who was just crabby. She didn't leave her name, or even her address, so I don't know how she expected me to do anything, but I thought her approach was interesting. She told me that "unless the dog leaves a nametag on it, how do I know whose it was?" I just found that amusing. Almost as amusing as the idea was her outrage evident on the voice mail.

I shared this information with a co-worker and we decided that nametags would be a good idea. So I came up with a new product idea. Everyone who lives in a condominium association and has a pet must feed their animal a bacon or pork flavored glow in the dark treat daily. These treats would be designed specially for each address so that we would know where the "deposits" came from. Why glow in the dark? Why not. As long as we are being riddiculous, why not make them glow in the dark so when you are walking at night, you can see the "landmines" and avoid them.

Of course, then I started thinking about all the potential problems. What if we had a chihuahua who lived at 143234 W. Minneapolis Blvd? The poor thing would have digestive issues if it weren't a flexible treat. And then what about a great dane with an addres of 2 Jo st. it would get lost!

OK. Can you tell I had trouble sleeping last night? Sometimes I just wish people could listen to themselves and they would realize that they sound as riddiculous as this entire entry.