Pooh On Street

[nikad]

The porteño way to make you feel good about any incidents with dog s**t, bird s**t and any other type of s**t ? they will tell you that it brings good luck!!!! lmao, this is not a joke, when you walk on s**t, get s***ed by some pigeon, dream of s***t etc, that is what they say. Ask around for your amusement!

 

[rrptownley]

The porteño way to make you feel good about any incidents with dog s**t, bird s**t and any other type of s**t ? they will tell you that it brings good luck!!!! lmao, this is not a joke, when you walk on s**t, get s***ed by some pigeon, dream of s***t etc, that is what they say. Ask around for your amusement!

It is good luck here. If you step in shit, go straight to a Lotto office and buy a ticket. There is a special shit ticket. I'm not joking I assure you all.

Look at #71 here

 

[etoile]

It is good luck here. If you step in shit, go straight to a Lotto office and buy a ticket. There is a special shit ticket. I'm not joking I assure you all.

Look at #71 here

Hahahahahaha

 

[pitipur]

The porteño way to make you feel good about any incidents with dog s**t, bird s**t and any other type of s**t ? they will tell you that it brings good luck!!!! lmao, this is not a joke, when you walk on s**t, get s***ed by some pigeon, dream of s***t etc, that is what they say. Ask around for your amusement!

Haha my family is of Middle Eastern origin and it's the same for us...it's always good luck!!

That being said, my two week stay last month was in Palermo Soho (close to my office where I was working) and the dog waste seemed to be more concentrated there than anywhere else I went to.

 

[mariano-BCN]

what I don't understand is how the owners of dogs cope with not cleaning the pooh while they live in the n'hood. It's not the excuse porteños usually use for the filthy around: they said people who live outside the city and come to work here are the ones to blame for making it all worse. But when it comes down to dog-pooh the neighbors are for sure the ones to blame.
And indeed: outside Buenos Aires is less, I was in La Plata this week and was surprised how clean it is there on the walk side.
Besides: I don't see or notice any, but any, initiative of the Macri-Governement to do something about this issue.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I know where I'm: Buenos Aires, the city of pooh on street. Never been in a city with so much pooh on street, where owners of dogs don't care about taking care of the excrements of their dogs. I try to watch every step but yesterday I stepped on pooh on both shoes. This happened in Palermo.

I wonder how other foreigners look at and deal with this issue. Am I the only one who is annoyed? And while looking for a place to buy I've now another criteria for finding a place: in a n'hood with more responsible citizens/owners of dogs. Any suggestions?

I am a dog lover (as you might guess), and it bothers me a lot (I do not bring my malamute to BA, even though I would like to). In my own neighborhood, near the Botánico and the zoo, it's more common to see people carrying plastic bags for cleanup than it used to be, though it's still a minority. I usually carry a few extras in my daypack and, when I see someone's dog dumping, I hand him or her a bag with the comment "Se te cayó algo."

 

[EricLovesBA]

Hey hey, a fun conversation in zona 4!

This is the new phrase I've coined for conversations about shit, vomit, boogers, piss, farts, etc. I made it up after becoming enamored of an Eleanor Roosevelt quote: “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” So for a while any time (read: every day) I would find myself or family caught up in the neighborhood gossip session, I would say, "Well, here we are, back in category 3, talking about people again!".

Then some weeks later I began to be aware of this whole other category. Maybe yes or no it shows up after a bit of beer, but invariably after looking at a few pages of jokes on facebook, at which point I endearingly proclaim "Here we are, back in zona 4! whoo hoooo!!"

 

[nlaruccia]

Why haven't I really felt this is such a big deal? When I was reading the forums before coming down here I thought there would be almost enough poop to shovel it. I don't know if it's because of where my apt is, but I really don't see THAT much. And I walk almost everywhere. That notion that you have to dodge poop every step you take, well, I just don't see it. Sure I see some, and maybe 30% of the sidewalks are in rough shape. But is it really that big a deal? Maybe gets much worse in the summer.

You're lucky you can spot it and avoid the dog crap. Lots of blind people and those in wheelchairs can't help but step in it or roll through it. Yet no one ever seems to think about much less care about those with limited capabilities.

 

[nlaruccia]

We walk barefoot to keep our shoes clean.

It is (mostly) a BsAs problem. One of the times we discussed the problem (a couple of years back) somebody suggested planted a small Argentine flag in each sh*t - it has worked well elsewhere.

That's so classic!

In NYC I shared an enormous first floor garden with an asado and patio furniture with empty apartment next door until a French woman new to the States moved in it with her poodle. My friends stopped wanting have asados in my garden because of the dog crap all over the place. After asking my new neighbor many, many times to please clean up her dog shit I became fed-up with her refusal to keep the garden clean. She confused NYC with Paris so I reminded her that New Yorker's don't take shit from anyone. I started collecting all the little turds her dog would leave behind and deposit them on the mat right under her doorstep so that every time she would step outside to enjoy the garden she would accidentally step right into all that luscious shit. She got really angry with me and told me to stop being passive aggressive and I responded that she's the one who refused to play nice in the first place. Deal with it, clean up your dog crap, or move. She changed her behavior and I never saw another dog pooh in the garden. Now, if I could just find the apartments of all the irresponsible porteño owners who dirty the sidewalks with their dogs so I could leave them little Easter baskets on their doorsteps.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Where can I buy a bunch of little Argentine flags?

I was running at the Rosedal last summer when I came up on 2 women and their Lab. The Lab stopped and dropped a massive pile of used dog food. The women took note of the Lab's drop but kept walking as if they didn't see it. As I passed them I suggested that they clean up their dog's shit.

One replied to me, "Go home to your country!" At which point I ran a long wide loop back to the dog pile. I found a plastic bag nearby on the ground (no surprise), scooped up as much of the crap as I could, and then as I ran past them a second time I slapped the dog shit all over her shoulders.

I shouted, "Me encanta Argentina!" Vengeance 1. Diplomacy 0.