What an awesome Father’s Day gift for the family with a dog AND a dad who enjoys hockey! I stumbled upon this actual product reading my favorite comedy blogs covering history, hockey and odd movie plots (that’s a story for another day). At first I thought it was a joke because the product’s name used to be an insult on Beavis & Butt-Head. Maybe I should buy one to fling the deuces my inconsiderate neighbors leave, via their dogs of course. I know my friend Mark Brunner’s dad probably should’ve used one for an incident Mark told me about. I think my hockey fan comrade Brian would join forces with me to send a case to the Colorado Avalanche or as he affectionately calls them, The al-Qaidarado Divelanche.
The website selling it is quite amusing too.
The story that Steve references in his post about my Dad is as follows: one weekend day, my dad happens to be looking out of our dining room window and spots a guy walking a large-ish dog. The dog jumps the curb and proceeds to do his (#2) business on our front lawn. And we’re not talking a little business, but a whole lot. Large dog = large business. You get the picture. Apparently, the dog owner never misses a step — doesn’t try to stop the dog, doesn’t try to pick up the mess or even get it into the street (there was a storm drain gutter about one yard from where the dog did the deed), and he basically just keeps on down the street.
My dad goes out and sees the guy go inside his house like 8 or 9 houses down the street from us. He goes to the garage, gets a shovel, shovels the business up, and walks down to the guy’s house. There he rings the doorbell and when the guy answers the door, he says “I think you left something on my lawn” and flings the stuff into the guy’s house through the open door. And then he walks away. Is that cool or what!
That’s my dad. He won’t yell at you or get all crazy and “Little League Hockey Dad” on you, but if you cross him, he will figure out a creative way to get back at you. A smart guy that literally doesn’t take any $hi….well, you know the rest.
And to think, Paul could have made his fortune if he had just thought to substitute a dog turd for a HoHo or a DingDong!