The straight poop
So there's this guy -- Mr. D. Lovenberg -- who appears to have cornered the market on portable toilets in this part of the county. We are having the roofs replaced on all the condos in our complex, and, to accommodate the basic needs of the swarms of construction workers that descend on our property every day, they have set up portable toilets around the complex. These toilets are prominently emblazoned with the Lovenberg name. Before our town's traditional St. Patrick's Day parade, portable toilets sprouted up like mushrooms along the parade route. These, also, bore Mr. Lovenberg's name. I don't know if I would really want to be known as the Portable Toilet King, but, hey, to each his own.
This morning on my way to work I was stopped at a red light and a large white truck pulled up next to me with two guys in it. They looked at me, I looked at them, and the light turned green. As the truck moved ahead of me I could read the lettering on the side -- "D. Lovenberg's Portable Toilet Rentals." I thought to myself, Geez, these guys are everywhere. As the truck got even farther I realized that it had a tank on the back and suddenly it occurred to me that this was the truck they used to, well, make "withdrawals" from the portable toilets that they set up everywhere. These two guys in the truck? It was their job to hook the truck up to the portable toilets and suck the stuff out. (Another one for the Jobs I Don't Want list.)
As the truck got even farther ahead of me I saw that something was painted on the back of the giant tank mounted on the truck. I blinked a few times, then sped up to get a better look at it.
There was a smiling turd painted on the back of the truck. I am not making this up. The turd had arms, and it was waving with one hand and holding an American flag in the other.
I suppose, if you're in the portable toilet business, it's important to have a sense of humor.
(Note: I did a search for a D. Lovenberg's Portable Toilet Rentals website to link to but alas they don't have one. You'd think that a guy who would have a waving turd painted on his company vehicles would want a website, woudn't you?)
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