Clean Up

8/7/17 This morning, on my jog, I covered a fresh pile of dog shit with a large piece of tree bark. It was in the trails my family and I walk in and was horrified at the thought of one of us - or a complete stranger - stepping in any portion of it. When I jogged by the shit 10 minutes later, someone had moved the bark but left the shit, making it once again a threat to innocent passers by. I walked by it but five minutes later made the decision to walk out of my way to get one of those little green dog poo bags to collect the droppings and dispose of them the way that dog's owner should have. I got the shit, and as I walked home with it, the little knotted bag swaying back and forth in my grasp, I felt like I'd done a very good deed.