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April 17, 2007
semper doody
I'm driving to work, drifting along in the right lane, getting my head around the day, and this little green truck whizzes by me in the left lane. Kind of a sporty little truck, small but husky, and it's a business truck, it's got a big orange stripe down the side, and the 'be a tattletale' bumper sticker, it's got a toolbox in the back, and some big bulgy orange letters saying something on the back.
so I speed up to take a closer look, what the heck is this thing? It's got orange polka-dots on it for crying out loud. I get close enough to read it and it says, Doody Calls . 1-800-DOODY CALLS. And underneath that in smaller letters: Premiere Pet Waste Removal Service. And it has a picture of an orange dog with a flower in it's mouth, looking a little bashful. and over all of that on top of the tailgate it says: Franchises Available.
the mind reels.
I look again and there is a sticker on the corner of the back bumper. "04". There are at least FOUR of these trucks! Nah, it's probably one truck, but the owner wanted to make it seem like it's part of a fleet.
Doody Calls. They come to your place and pick up after your dog. One easy phone call. Sally Struthers, you can't compete with that for your sixty bucks a month. Maybe a hundred, who knows?
There's this serious-looking chick driving the truck, wearing gold rimmed glasses and tooling down the road just as fast as she can go. She's on a mission, I'm thinking, to get through the day just as quick as she can.
Think about this: how would you write a help-wanted ad for that job?
But then I remember what I figured out, it's just a local operation, she probably owns it, it's her truck. And I ease off the gas, and she zips away into the traffic.
As she does, here comes another little green truck passing me, only this one has a different number on the bumper. 07.
doody calls. read the press release. no. shit.
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posted by matthew at 11:42 PM
i could use a little Doody Service. ok, not ME, but my pups, or more specifically my backyard. Then again, maybe this is the new job i was looking for :-)
posted by: Jules on April 19, 2007 01:42 PM