Seconds from one of THOSE moments….

Walking along the peaceful Yorkshire roads. No cars, no people, just the sound of birds and a happy dog excitedly bouncing through a carpet of dry leaves. One of those times when the World seems still, peaceful. I try to capture the moment.

Then a dog does what a dog needs to do.

With Pop Bag in hand I bend over to deal with the smelly doggie gift. My mobile slips gracefully out of my jacket chest pocket and tumbles almost in slow motion to the ground.

Some things in life are INEVITABLE, Thanos was right about that.

Like a precision tool, my mobile scores a direct hit onto the newly produced Doggie Gift. Think of the sound welly boots make when squelching through inches of mud….

I am no physicist but there must be some universal laws at play here, but how does both sides of mobile get covered…. How does it get inside the protective case. How does it fill the speaker holes. For the first time my mobile has full coverage in Rural Yorkshire.

Then that realisation. No hankies, no tissues, nothing to begin to wipe it clean. A poop bag is absolutely no use here, it just spreads and smears. Dry leaves help a bit but they can only do so much. It’s a long winding two mile walk home with the smelliest mobile in the world and I’ve used my last poop bag

Do I just carry it at arms length like I’m holding some biological weapon….

Do I lose all self respect and just put it in my pocket……

Such decisions for a peaceful Yorkshire morning .

32 thoughts on “Peaceful morning”

  2. Oh my. That’s all you needed. And yes, what do you do? Thankfully, that’s never happened to me, otherwise I probably would have been like you with the thinking arms length, or pocket until I get home and don’t touch the phone till then. Otherwise, if I had a spare poop bag, it would have gone in that, then in my pocket. Still not touching my phone until I got home.

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      1. Yes. But at the time, did you say oh crap. Because I probably would have come out with that if it had happened to me. As well as eugh. 😁

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  10. Bummer. Nice photo there though.
    With the poo bag warden on duty, we have to ensure we have at least three poo bags in our pockets. Maya will poo for England, and lately it has been at least a two bag jobbie. We have also discovered that the last pack was sub standard and if it doesn’t snap cleanly off the roll, you have it open at both ends!
    New phone required? Hope not. Hubby’s worst mishap was dropping his (third) in the marina, having washed its predecessor in the washing machine. It survived the first fast spin, but sadly not the second.

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  11. Oh noooooo. What did you do?? Did you carry it at arm’s length?! Ugh. One would just throw the whole phone away at this point, but those damned things are too valuable. The photo is absolutely stunning though, Britain does come into her own in the autumn.

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  20. Cell phones must have some sort of inner radar to hit the most unusual and inconvenient targets. A friend of mine was getting out of a car when her phone slipped out. The car was parked over a drain. Where did the phone land? Somehow it managed to turn just the right way to slip easily right down the drain never to be seen again.

    I have never had one of those gadgets and now I’m glad I don’t. 🙂

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