Stories Collected While Living in France
A Doggy Bag.
Guess what is inside?
The first one to answer correctly wins a doggy bag of their own, and the one with the most creative answer gets one too! Oh boy a Doggy Bag!
Do you think it is fresh pie?
Do you think I really left it on my neighbor's doorstep?
No and no. You are much too polite. Pity, really. 😉
You would never do what should be in there…..so is it perhaps it’s a brownie sitting on roof tile as a plate????
XO
Brown paper package,tied up with string, these are a few of my…POOPer scooper?!
Please, please, don’t let it be what we all think it is!
An adorable cupcake? Nothing at all, just air inside a pretty brown paper bag tied up with a pretty pink ribbon?
I think it is doggy pooh that
your inconsiderate neighbors
leave for others to clean up.
We have to deal with the neighbor’s
cats using our little rose garden
for their litter box.
Jann
I think it is some little cakes……with french husband’s hair in them that he has torn out in frustration at the nasty neighbours!!!!
If you didn’t put his hair in the cakes you could auction it off and move to a grand chateau on the proceeds!!!
p.s. I have watched the video but had to wait in a queue !!!so here’s hoping He wins.
p.p.s I can accept no responsibility whatsoever for french husband being bald in his next photos.
Love from Australia, Chris
I laughed at loud at the notion one could wrap droppings with a pink ribbon; of course, I suspect you are far too refined for such a thing. But maybe you made a batch of chocolate fudge and left it on the doorstep..a kind of sugary subtlety!
– “un ramasse-crottes” (= a poop scoop)
http://www.auberdog.com/Accessoires/pelle-ramasse-crotte-pour-chien.htm
– French pink toilet paper
– gift vouchers from Animalis (so that your neighbours can buy their own dog bags).
– a present to yourself : “du répulsif chiens-chats”
http://photos.plantes-et-jardins.com/270×270/repulsif_chien_chat_bio_neudorff.jpg
– another present to yourself : a pot of herb-of-grace to plant by your door(mind your hands though)
Some brown summer ´bulbs´ that look like poop now, but will be beautiful flowers in summer.
Mmmmm… I think there is some yummy ‘chocolates’ hidden inside the “Doggy bag’ – maybe in the shape of a doggy or the shape of doggy doo!!LOL
Alison
I think you have been very kind and left some doggy biscuits for the dog. You are trying to be a good neighbour and to forgive the owners of the dog
I think you made home made dog biscuits shaped like you know what with a kind note!!!
Yes, you did leave it on your neighbour’s doorstep. It contained:
An invitation to a bring-your-own lunch event
OR
An invitation to a Garden Party
OR
A pet rock painted pink and inscribed with hand-painted gold lettering: “If you don’t keep that dog quiet, I will resort to sterner measures.”
I think preserves…made with Annie!
I had more fun reading all the comments! Well, we can all guess what I thought it was at first – but then you wrote that the person guessing correctly gets the same doggie back and I thought:”No, it can’t be the obvious.” 🙂
I think you are giving them a peace offering, cookies for the owners AND their dog.
Or maybe a pooper scooper as a not so subtle hint?
Totally enjoyed your post! 🙂 Silke
a peace offering….kill them with kindness
can be only pasta 🙂
cookies for sure
or
a dream: you open it and if you deserve it -everybody deserves to dream though- then a pink dream enters your world, so at this night you will dream of a dream that is not but still is
happiness will flow in your heart and mind and when you wake up you can spread it to the world
or a diary: a mysterious one. Each page tells what happened to the people who found it before: a magical night where a hope comes true, an inner one. You will write the next page…
that’s un Corey! Thank you to open “my doggy bag” (dreams)
Corey,
I know French Husbands little cousin call you Caca, and your neighbors certainly deserve to have their own dog’s poop returned to them; however, you always do the unexpected. I’m guessing that the bag tied with a pink ribbon contains something from the Brocante, perhaps a something depicting St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment.
a list of the town “pet laws” and a map to the local town dog play area. How about some great real estate listings from the next town over?
D in VA
Or….an invitation to French Husband’s up and coming Gun and Knife show!!
a big sugar~cookie
shaped
like a
dog~bone.
🙂
{{well,
if not,
you should
have }}
probably a copy of some book on how to be a good neighbor.
Or a extension of friendship, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar?
It must be a poo cookie!
Well, if it was me, I’d be returning the gifts that the dog leaves in my yard……but I know you would never do that. Maybe it’s the address of another house for rent across town…in an area full of dogs.
How about some chocolate truffles??
Corey,
I have been catching up on your antics and I have to say you are having a trying time of it in the patience department with the whole baby bath time and pj thing. Now it is topped off with obnoxious neighbors.
When I was young such packages were not tied up in pretty pink ribbon, no they were lit on fire, the doorbell was rung and we ran to hide within peeking distance. Surely this must be the French version of this trick, a flaming ribbon instead of fire, a peace offering that smells pungent, no?
I am guessing strawberry shortcake…SWEET!
Befriending your neighbors with kindness instead of poopy! The poop seems too obvious! We’ll see! What a pretty package!
Oops…perhaps inside there is a stack of brown paper bags in which to pick up the poop, or a pooper scooper! I’m thinking here!
Michelle in KY
I am hoping it is perhaps a few extra hours of sleep in that bag! I have a beautiful new puppy who we adore (pics on my blog), but it is truly like having a new baby and toddler all rolled into one! Have a lovely weekend, Corey! xox Deb
something nice..maybe baked..you seem too nice to leave them something bad….but you do have a great sense of humor too!
Forget about what’s in the bag – I covet the ribbon around it! It looks yummy! Do you have any extra lying around? Any color will do! lol
please tell me it’s their dog’s poop! and if i’m right, i don’t want one!!! 🙂 xo
Perhaps one of your beautiful antique cups (of kindness) from the brocante? wrapped in blessings, who can resist?
I think it is an old fashing rock candy lollipop.
homemade jam or jelly, wrapped beautifully as only you can do!
A Costco amount of what we call “poopy bags” clean blue plastic bags for animal waste.
Exploding ink.
Corey, I think you left a can of food for the puppy!
I give you food, you give me peace, we will be best friends! This works with people!
It’s a little plaque that says, in beautiful, flowing script:
Love your neighbor;
Have your dog poop at home!!!
Can’t wait to hear what it is. I’m going to do whatever you have done to my neighbors and their cats. We’ll start a worldwide “movement”.
A samll french pooper scooper!
home made doggie biscuits.
Orama,
Your fantasy baseball team is a joke give it up already.
Brother Mat
In the bag? Dog poop.
I know! if it is a doggy bag i something you made, your neighbor ate probably at your place (Annie?) and surprise! you let the leftovers of your delicious Corey’s rose cookies + the recipe
and yes, you really let it at your neighbor steps
Chocolate Chip Cookies
and tell me…why people think is to put doggy things….?
🙂
I think it is a votive candle with a message that says, “I am determined to have St. Peter wave me through the gates of heavan. I give you this candle as a gift and I as that you light this each day for me and pray that I get back to loving my neighbor as I once did”
My first thought was a doggie pie (ie-cow pie) at your neighbors door. I agree, I don’t think you would do that. So it must a peace offering, a blessing for the family and pets. A welcome to the neighborhood gift. I know whatever it is there was much thought that went into it. There must have been with the beautiful pink ribbon tied to it.
Since your new neighbors frequently curse…perhaps you left them a note explaining your frustration with their behavior (complete with curse words)…in ENGLISH? Or perhaps you wrote a sweet note in French asking for a meeting to discuss their not-so-nice behavior & signed FrenchHusbands name?
Chocolate cookies?
I found your blog quite awhile ago, when looking for blogs with a Cheek connection. I have enjoyed your stories and pictures ever since. When I was asked to pass on the Kreativ blogger award, you were among the first to come to mind. Congratulations.
http://cheekfam.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/kreativ-blogger-award/
Seeds???? (Bulbs perhaps?) I’d love to receive seeds from a neighbor in a bag like this…
Stuffed cabbage!
It’s what’s left of the carpenter after changing dates on you!
ok
I think that is a doggy bag, with something supposedly to eat (because that is what doggy bags are for -to put leftovers to carry home-) but if you are going to send what is inside…then….is something that LOOKS LIKE food but is not…like some ceramic cookies?
hahahahaha! you see, you have me thinking 🙂
xoxoxoxox
Itis their mess. Dog poop, etc.
I believe that it is the doggie poop that was left for you by your neighbor’s dog.
Raspberries! : P
Months ago, my husband was so so so frustrated with the neighbors’ Chihuahua crapping in our yard. The neighbor never leashed the dog….just let him outside to wander and crap wherever. Well. One evening, my husband was out in the front yard and noticed a ‘present’ in our front yard…..so under the cover of night, he got our pooper scooper that we use for our dogs, and flung the ‘present’ in the neighbors’ front yard. When he was retelling the story to me, I was looking at him horrified. OUR DOG (a lab mix) had left the present in our front yard and I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning it up! SO…..my husband flung a BIG present in the neighbors’ yard. I said “What is wrong with you that you can’t tell a Chihuahua’s business from a big Lab’s business?!” LOL
Although….come to think about it now….we haven’t had any presents in our yard anymore….hee hee heee…
LOL, is this the neighbor that throws trash on your roof? Did you eventually light the bag on fire?
In all seriousness I am guessing they are candies.
I hope it’s their dog’s poop…and no, I don’t want any. My mother-in-law had to do that to her next door neighbor to make them stop letting their dog poop on her lawn and sidewalk. She wouldn’t have minded so much, if they’d just pick it up, but NOOO, they wouldn’t do that…thus the ‘present’.
O.k., so you went shopping this morning and bought the cutest thing, it made you smile… a key holder of a favorite cartoon character like Obelix. Only when you got home, you realized that it’s a duo pack. Who needs two Obelix key rings?
So you wrapped one up prettily and left it on the doorstep for a neighbor’s child to attach to her back pack.
Or… as you were grocery shopping this morning, you bought a fair amount of the French equivalent of dark chocolate almond bark for a family treat. When you got home you ate a little bit and another little bit until you’d had a great deal of it(as it is your favorite). So guiltily, you left the rest on a dear friend’s doorstep because like you, she adores almond bark…and your family will not have missed a thing!
Denise
It’s got to be the bad neighbor’s dog’s poop. The pink ribbon was the dead giveaway. Don’t put my name in the hat, though, please. I laughed out loud when I saw this…knew right off what it was from your story.
Perhaps it is lovely Anais’ dirty pj’s… or one of those dog collars with the pooper-scooper bags attached – with directions in French! This is THAT neighbor, right?
Oh, maybe you’re trying to kill him (and his dog?) with kindness, so it is a neighborly peace offering of a Corey Amaro photo, smartly framed, and of the pooch in question of course!
Oh right…maybe some scraps for the cats, or burnt paper that floated over or as I’ve seen here…poop. No you wouldn’t really do that? Or would you?…
well I think you are too nice so I think you gave a gift of dog bisquits for the dog and some scones for the neighbor with jam made with annie and said let us be good neighbors. I think the ribbon is so pretty it couldn’t really have poo in it and really why does everyone think a doggy bag has to have something to do with a dog? Inquiring minds would love the answer to that one
Hi Corey,
I think you did leave a “doggy pie” tied with a pretty pink ribbon with a “side” of pooper scooper bags & a sweet little note! Love Thy Neighbor!!! but than decided not too… I would be too scared! Can’t wait to see!
Woo hoo…. I was left a similar parcel at my front door and it was a beautiful glass ornament with a lovely sister poem on it. I was so excited when I opened the door and there was my first ever unexpected gift. I am a very lucky girl. We have challenging neighbours too amd I smile and wave at them and hope things will improve….. I think in your beautiful parcel is a tin of cat food, a doggie biscuit, a spray tin called nomoredogpee, and a box of chocolates. I would love to receive a gift from you, all the way from the South of France. Hopefully things will improve for you and me…..
Love Carol xxxx
Corey would do something kind and giving! A doggie bone, a leash and a collar!
I think you are too nice to put in the bag what we all thought as our first guess!
I think something nice sent in the spirit of friendship to try to get on good terms with your awful neighbours.
I’m up for a joke shop pile of fake doggie poop … but maybe the French aren’t into that kind of childish American humor. NO JOKE SHOPS! Although tied up with a big pink ribbon, in a stylish little brown bag it bears a sweet note of kindness with a gentle reminder that what goes around might eventually come around.
When our neighbor’s giant dog comes a’callin in our yard we gather up his gift in a plastic shopping bag, tie it securely to his collar (where he can’t reach) and send him on his way. We haven’t seen him in quite awhile.
I know what’s in it. What I want to know is what, if anything, happened when they found their gift?
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