D'vorahDavida
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Ghost Poop Dance
Fri Sep 12 2003

Today was garbage day in our neighborhood.

This explains the ghost poop dance.*

On the way to work, as I drove out into the fields at the edge of the housing development, lo and behold, racing along in the brisk morning wind ahead of me was a veritable hoe down of ghost poops.
They were dosey doeing all over the road. Some were even doing acrobatic leaps like those guys in tights and toe shoes.

They had escaped from the garbage truck, which is pretty easy for ghost poops since they are so light and all… Anyway….

(Excuse me there cupcake, I know your on a roll here, but WHAT the heck are ghost poops?)

Oh, sorry. Styrofoam packing peanuts. Or whatever other shapes they come in. I have seen pink, green, yellow and white ones. Peanuts and little “cap” shaped ones and ones that defy description.

ANYWAY, it was a ghost poop festival. Something like a “harmonic convergence” in the styro world.

Just thought you would like to know!


*Not to be confused with the Hamster Dance, which would have been a LOT more messy.


(If she thinks this is going to pass as a decent diary entry, she’s got another thing coming.)

8 Comments
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    Oh, DO tell us about the hamster dance.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    LOL Now THAT is funny!
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    hehehehe, ghost poop :))))))
    i'll always remember your description whenever i see those styrofoam pellets now

    sez
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    I'm so glad you explained that. I had *no* idea. ;-)
  • From:
    Calichef (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    On a very windy day in spring many years ago, as I was leaving our local health food store, I witnessed something similar. Thousands of packing peanuts all traveling across and then down the street at the same pace and in the same direction. I remember thinking that they must look like lemmings headed for the sea. But I like ghost poops, too!
    ~Cali
  • From:
    Parett (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME BEFORE!!!!???? All these years you have been coming to the dentist, KNOWING about this and letting me continue to pack hundreds of dental impressions in boxes full of 'Ghost Poop'....without rubber gloves. I just feel so used and dirty....What would OSHA say??!!

  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Sep 12 2003
    Ghost poop now that's original and when you think about completley accurate. I have a pathological hatred of polystyrene it's my big hate so I'm marvelling at the fact you could stand there watching it, I would have been running in the other direction like it was lava.
  • From:
    Yarngirl (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Feb 18 2004
    We've got enough ghost poop in bags and boxes for Rick's website to open our own Mail Boxes etc. I've not heard the term ghost poop before but it is apt. And now I'm going to be feeling guilty all the time about sending out poop. ;o)

    Julie