He Pooped On The Road

That title is going to have many people deleting the post in order to keep bad elements from their home, but hopefully more people will read this story before deleting. I swear it is family friendly…

First I have to explain the ‘he’, most of you know it is obviously Mike. Not only is he capable of pooping on the road, he is not embarrassed by it. When I say ‘road’ I am talking about the county road that runs through the middle of my property, or maybe I should say my property runs through the county road easement. It’s a mixed blessing. Then there is the ‘poop’. When cleaning the barns, manure tends to get stuck in the cleats of the tractor tires and when we then drive the tractor up the road to unload the manure spreader, viola, poop on the road.

Farmers across our nation are plagued with trying to keep all the farm dirt on the farm and not on the county road, some go to great lengths to not drag bits-of-farm onto the roads.  We try to keep the farm from littering the roads but things happen. In fact, the road crew tends to get really irritated at excess dirt on the road and are willing to call the sheriff (don’t assume that this happened to me personally although I can guarantee it is true). Or a driver with a brand new wax job on his sporty car drives through the muck on the road that had been softened up by a spring rain shower and calls the sheriff (again, don’t assume, but it can definitely happen). Our goal is not to have law enforcement involved.

We do try to keep the roads clean but sometimes it just happens, this time it happened to be Mike on the offending tractor. Yep, the moral of this story is Poop Happens.

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