Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This
is Forest Stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,
a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,
none of it would be possible if it wasn't for
this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I
talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's
time that you get to know what has inspired me
for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.
Welcome back to the forest. Every once in a while,
you've got to share the story of the bag of shame.
Speaker 2: You know, the bag of shame. All dog owners are
supposed to have the bag of shame. If you take
your fuzzy child out for a walk, you got to
have the bag because that's how you're going to pick
up with the dog as autographic earth with. You know,
it's a good thing that people do that because many
of us, as we're walking down a path inside of forest,
we never really get into anything more than everything that
we're receiving. And when we step into that pile, you
know what you just received. It could become a long
day's worth of embarrassment, because everywhere you go you can't
shake that smell that should have been in the bag
of shame now one of my pet peeves, and it's
not that bad, but it's pretty bad. Thank you so
much for cleaning up after your dog. But if you
take note here, you left your classic bag behind and
according to science, that little surprise on the inside could
last a thousand years. Why do people do that? They
leave their bags of shame on the ground. Are they
expecting people like myself to come by and clean up
after them? No, I wouldn't clean up after your dog. Hm,
the bag of shame. Nobody really likes to do it,
but we do and we're good people for doing it.
And then the bag of shame that's left on the ground.
Thanks for being a part of the conversation.