My KC Neighborhood Luxuries
Here’s a couple of photos from my early morning walks in Kansas City.
In a racially divided city I live in a white neighbourhood.
The first photo depicts two retail businesses whose being next door to each other has always tickled me.
If you can’t make them out, and let’s pretend you don’t know, that’s Pampered Paws Grooming on the left. They do exactly what they say on the tin, and have been “Pampering Pets in Waldo Since 1989″ and I’d link to their website only it has automatic sound files from 1989.
And on the right in the red is Priscilla’s, who list lingerie, novelties, and cards as their business, but I suspect they do more than what they say on the tin.
For some reason their juxtapostion has always struck me as indicative of too many people having too much money. And I speak as a man who likes his pets groomed and his lingerie novel. With cards.
And you might well disagree with me about people having too much money, but directly across the road reaching into the sky is this testament to where we’re at:
Stinkies: We Scoop Poop They do, but watch out for sound effects of dogs panting and being shot. I think.
Yes, I’ll take photographs of such things in Ireland when I get there.
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Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Unfortunately, Irish signs are not quite as imaginative. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “We Scoop Poop” sign. We just let people walk in it and carry it home to wipe on their carpets.
Great photos, Eolai!
Especially the second one.
I do believe that one could win any number
of photo contests.
There’s just something magnificent about the
immensity of the physical sign and hardware
as compared to the absolute total banality
of the message itself.
That just so perfectly… I don’t know how
else to describe it… AMERICAN!
My God. Is this a great country, or what.
Hope you are surviving the heat.
It’s been REALLY BAD down here in Arkansas.
Are people really that lazy that they can’t pick up dog poo? Dear jeebus, that’s sad.
I see you found one of our billboards interesting. Great photo. I think I’ll call it “The Morning Doo”
But seriously, I’m sure our service is used by some out of pure laziness. Some other reasons are as follows…
1. Some pet owners don’t seem to have the time. Family, work, kids with activities…keeping up with the dog waste, I guess they would rather outsource that.
2. Some simply don’t have the desire. If they can fit our rates into their budget, why not.
3. Some of our customers have working dogs. Either they are blind, handicapped or other impairment that won’t allow them to doo it themselves.
4. Many are senior citizens who find it difficult to walk the yard, bend over and keep up with it.
5. Some may be lazy. (would never say that out loud
)
6. A few are commercial customers, i.e. pet friendly apartments, condos, HOA’s.
Their are many, many luxury services out there that people utilize. Many don’t seem to be such a luxury anymore as time has passed but more like normal or mandatory.
We help people keeps thier yards clean so they don’t step in it, keep down the possible spread of disease, help decrease waste water runoff, help them enjoy their pet, and last but not least….keep marriages together…LOL.
We service around 400 dogs each week and growing…I like to say I’m laughing all the way to the bank.
Great blog and again, thanks for the interest and the photo!
Thanks for that, Shon.
I’m impressed that you help keep some marriages together. Are you sure it’s just poop you’re scooping?
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