Mis-Adventure #1

Adventures that you don’t want to experience

“Twinks The Claims Dog” and I were out inspecting claims. Of course this means that I’m inspecting while Twinks is watching me from the safety of the truck. The day was cold as ice, low 30’s and I’d finally brought my down ski parka along, the big one I made myself back in the late 70’s. , I’d been back and forth from the truck to the house having to get the ladder, then putting it back into the truck bed.

I got into the truck and smelled something bad. When I’m on the road and Twinks is along I put the back seat down so that Twinks can go from the front to the rear easily. Plus I can reach whatever I need more easily as well.

Now Twinks climbed from the back to the front and then stepped to the floorboard with her behind against my right leg. Not quite understanding the situation I tried to get her to move but she wouldn’t. The bad smell wasn’t going away so I was driving, trying to concentrate on the GPS that didn’t want to work and getting Twinks off my leg. I looked and realized that dog doo was on the console, then saw that it was on my coffee cup lid. When I could look I saw that it was on the towel in the back , all over my parka and really all over the truck.

Now I was getting concerned. I was minutes away from being late for my claim, my dog had her butt against my leg and dog doo was all over inside the truck, it was cold outside and I had no parka to wear. I had visions of the doo on the leg of my pants as well wondering how that would work with my next claim. Additionally I was driving on a road I’d never been before so had no idea when or where I could stop so got into the right hand land and started looking for something, anything.

I finally saw a sign for a mobile home sales site that was in the middle of nowhere land. I pulled off and in an empty field dumped the doo and started cleaning up what I could using the baby wipes that I carry and paper towels.

I then drove over to the sales office and told them that I had a sick dog and asked if they could please give me a couple of plastic trash bags. They gave me the trash bags, I filled them and went on to my claim.

Now we stop at rest stops more frequently and I encourage Twinkle to go at the stop.