I was only 7 or 8, but I remember the day the truck came. It had a hose, corroded with a decade of shit from the residents of this town in Virginia. In the middle of our gravel driveway, they lifted back the concrete slab. Below was this horrifying scene of some pink/brown goo; what looked like toilet paper glistened in the sun. The gruffiest old man you could imagine, wearing shorts, a def leopard tshirt, and not a glove in site, grabs the shit hose, starts a loud motor, and shoves it into the pink sludge. The sound… gurgling. The motor would surge as the hose got jammed with what I only imagined was this monster log of poop that could have only been my grandmother’s. It seemed like seconds, but it was probably hours of watching this shit fill up a truck, only to be driven away and taken I had no idea where.

30 years later, I still have no idea why it looked pink.

Edit: thanks for the gold kinda stranger I didn’t expect this post to blow up!