Why oh why?

I am seriously considering quitting this blog thing because it seems that very strange things have been happening to me so that I have something interesting to write about. I have been trying to think up a funny "why did the chicken cross the road" joke since yesterday and it hasn't come, so this story will just have to do without it. This last Wednesday, I pulled out a whole chicken to cook in my crock pot but when I opened the packaging, it smelled awful! Something like rotten eggs and skunk! That alone should have been enough for me to throw it out, but I needed a second opinion since it hadn't hit the "sell by" date yet. I called my sister Jen who is the expert at stuff like this and she informed me that the chicken probably wasn't kept at the right temperature somewhere along the line and yes, i should throw it away. She was smart enough to also tell me to keep it in my fridge until garbage day so I didn't cook in my garbage can all week. GENIUS! I carefully put it in a Ziploc and then in a grocery bag and tied it tight. Six days later, yesterday, was garbage day and finally my chance to get rid of the thing. I ran it out to the garbage and bid it a fond farewell. Not 10 minutes had passed when I heard the garbage truck drive by. I went out to bring my can back in from the road and this is what I found...! Are you kidding me! It had somehow jumped out of the garbage can and had been run over by the garbage man! It came completely out of both bags and the insides, like the neck and gizzards, were shot 10 feet down the road in front of my house. It was totally disgusting and I immediately called Jake and Jen to tell them of my misfortune. They both thought it was really funny and Jake even offered to let me leave it there so he could clean it up when he got home from work. It was a very kind offer, but I didn't want it to cook in the road all day and attract who-knows-what! I ended up shoveling that nasty thing out of the road and bagging it again and throwing it in my neighbor's garbage can across the street since their trash hadn't been picked up yet, at least I didn't think it had....