.... that something so ridiculous and disgusting could happen to me twice in my lifetime. Have I piqued your interest? Good. Here's the story....
I was driving along the road on the way to my gym, which is only about a mile or so from my house. It was almost 7 pm, so nice and dark outside, which explains why I didn't see that darn skunk until it was a split second away from my tires.
Sheesh... so I run it over. Yuck. But at first the smell really isn't that bad (or so I think). I decide not to let this little incident deter me from working out (I'm very hardcore about my running and yoga... that is if you call hardcore taking 15 minutes to run a mile and going to yoga once every month or so...) so I go to my yoga class at 7.
We joke a little about hitting the skunk and we we get out of the class the skunk smell outside is overwhelming.
Ok.. so maybe it did spray when I hit it. So, I decide to go upstairs and run (read slowly jog) a mile before heading home. Well... I also ate a couple of pieces of pizza before working out(read bad idea!) so the running didn't last long because my stomach was hurting.
I grab my keys and my yoga mat and head to my car, and as I do the skunk smell is (not
surprisingly) getting stronger as I get closer to my little blue jeep. When I open the door the smell nearly knocks me over, but I have to get home somehow, so I jump in and roll the windows down and drive home.
On the way I start gagging from the combination of the putrid smell and my already churning stomach. I pull quickly
into our garage and half-run, half-stagger into the house.
Macey is going nuts trying to smell me and Patrick's on the phone and doesn't seem to notice at first. I head straight to the bathroom where I promptly lose the pizza. Patrick is now coming in the bathroom saying, " What's that smell.... oh.. are you
ok?" So I tell him the whole story, and he (being the sweet husband he is) takes my jeep immediately (after he stops laughing) to the car wash hoping to get some of the smell off. I took a shower right away and most of the smell
dissipated from the house pretty quickly.
This morning however, I had to ride to work with the windows down (and of course this week our balmy weather turned to the low 30s). Hopefully the stink will wear off soon! Merry Christmas to me!
Oh... and you see that I said twice in my life?? Well that's because a few years ago I was riding with my friend Breanne
McLendon and we drove over a skunk (didn't even hurt it) and it sprayed the bottom of her car. So we ended up smelling like skunks for a few days during that little escapade too. It doesn't seem right that it should happen to me again!!
Oh well... I guess I'll laugh about it later. (maybe after I've had a nap to get rid of my skunk smell headache)
