Today on the way to the main post office, I encountered a dead animal on the road. It was an old dead, not a new dead. In fact, that animal was so flat that I couldn't even tell what species might claim it. This was on a main street in town. It wasn't a very big carcass, so I figured it might have once been a squirrel. I could see a fluffy white, kind of like the lighter color found on the belly of a squirrel. There was a car in the other lane, so I couldn't swerve over to avoid crunching (okay, it was beyond crunching, it was so flat) the remains, and I couldn't get over on the shoulder because it's a residential area, and cars were parked along there.
I didn't have too much regret. You can't kill an animal any deader. It had obviously been there a little while. As I proceeded to the post office, however, I began to feel a bit of regret. The aroma of SKUNK filled T-Hoe's cabin. I guess his tires picked up the scent as they smooshed the carcass. I breathed a sigh of relief when we passed a yard full of smoke from burning leaves, and that aroma replaced the skunkiness.
My breath of relief was short-lived. When I climbed out of T-Hoe in the post office parking garage area, the skunk smell returned. Of course I looked all around, wrinkling up my nose, for the benefit of other post office patrons. No way was I going to make a comment and reveal that it was MY car emitting that smell.
By the time I got home, the odor had pretty much evaporated. Or so I surmise. I'm sure I'll find out tomorrow when I open the garage door.
7 comments:
Take a facemask and proceed carefully tomorrow. Or take your chances and walk in there breathing deeply :)
If the smell is still there, I suggest driving through several deep puddles to wash the tyres clean.
Even flat skunks must be avoided!!
Yuck! Since my Martha is such a good hunter, I am always afraid he might kill a skunk and bring home a big chunk of smelly carcass.
Or get Farmer H to buy a bunch of auction cologne, spray the whole vehicle down...
River,
I'm sure Farmer H has some face masks in his hoard! I didn't notice the smell today, though. Maybe my nose was just stuffy.
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fishducky,
You ain't a-woofin'!
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Kathy,
At least your screen got fixed so Martha can't just drag it in the house without you knowing.
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Sioux,
That could easily become a reality. He almost has one of everything already. Cologne is probably on his unofficial list to purchase.
About that screen door ..... still doesn't close without a gap and probably never will.
Kathy,
That's the way things get fixed around here! The front door that wouldn't close got the old doorknob put back on. The old doorknob that was replaced because something was wrong with it. Now we don't remember what.
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