** I need to preface this post with the disclaimer that my oldest daughter is thoroughly mortified that I would discuss this matter in such a public venue. If you are privileged enough to know Torri then please do not hold my utter vulgarity against her. You know, the sins of the father and all. Or in this case, the mother.**
I ruined a pair of slippers this morning.
How, you ask, might that have happened?
I stepped in poop.
You may be assuming that I stepped in poop as I ventured my slippered feet out onto the front lawn (or rock bed as we have here in Arizona) to retrieve the Sunday paper.
Nope.
I stepped in poop indoors.
And no, we don’t have pets.
Still not 100% sure where aforementioned poop came from, though based on the tracks it appears to have originated from the floor in Cassidy’s bathroom.
Poor thing isn’t familiar with the concept of a dingleberry, and it likely took her by as big a surprise as it did me.
Or Jeff rather.
Seeing as how he was the one who discovered the tracks.
This is one time I’m glad I was oblivious.
I have a weak stomach.
His has gotten remarkably stronger since having married into a ready-made family complete with a then unpotty-trained child.
The girls’ bouts with the flu helped toughen him right up too.
Ah. And then there was this once…
It’s sort of a long story but believe it or not it involves poop stuck to the ceiling.
I swear.
You can imagine the immense pleasure I got from that experience, seeing as how I enjoy torturing my family. The poop wasn’t mine. But still. Jeff gagged repeatedly. And when I’m privy to someone gagging, I am thoroughly tickled.
Especially when it’s Jeff. There really isn’t anything that can instantly send me into a fit of laughter like seeing him grossed out.
My preferable tools are ear wax, white things (slimy skin that peels from the inside of my lips), and tonsil stones.
Of course, unintentional poop incidents work too.
You’d think we live in a zoo, what with the random poop on various surfaces.
I actually keep a very tidy home.
I swear.
When I sat down to write this post this totally isn’t the direction I intended to take.
It’s been quite amusing to write though, so I hope you don’t mind the toilet talk just this once.
I’ll be back to cleaner topics tomorrow.
Unless you’re all dying to hear the ceiling poop story.
I suppose then I could be convinced.


