COLUMN: Stuck in the mud

I'm pretty sure that it could be 100 degrees outside for a straight week and I could still find a way to come inside with mud on my shoes and various part of my clothing. I'm not sure why, but I always find a way to dirty up the bottom of my shoes no matter what I'm doing.

I would probably get a lot more done if I didn't take the short cut from the office to the bank in an alley and spend about 15 minutes scrapping the mud off my shoes. I'm not sure what happened the other day, but mud ended up all over our car and I don't remember anyone actually stepping in mud. There were streaks of i...