It's winter so how about a summer story to warm us up

Ok - so here's one from last summer. There are mounted police in Seattle. Men in uniform on the back of very large, very well taken care of horses cause quite a stir with the tourists that converge on Pike Place Market every summer. Police on horseback seem to be a good way of monitering the ner-do-well activity that can take place in such a congested environment. There's a park across the street and you can look over and see one of the mounted police perched atop a small grassy hill surveying his beat. Pike Place itself is very picturesqe with a red brick road surface and interesting old buildings set in a historic district overlooking the waterfront.

The horses bring more than photo ops. They bring very large poop droppings, quite often in the middle of the road. This incident happened on a "Summer Sunday" when the street is closed and our booths are set up all along the sidewalk. We had a "code 2" (this is the code used for maintenance to come and clean up the horse poop). The day was hot for Seattle - 80 degrees, sunny and so brightly blue your eyes hurt. The "code 2" was left piled high in the street for quite some time just steaming in the sun. I looked over and noticed something glinting and twinkling in the sun. I walked over to investigate. People had started to use it as a wishing well/pile of poop. There were pennies and other coins stuck to it from top to bottom just glittering in the sun. All I could think of was if the homeless people would get to it before the clean up crew.