Thursday, February 23, 2023

T-Hoe is a Stinker

I had to do my errands a day early this week. Of course rain started pouring when it was time for me to leave. On my way to the bank, I passed a dead skunk in the middle of the road. That's a song, too, you know. From the 70s.

Anyhoo... it was mutilated, lying on the center line. Nothing anybody could do but continue driving past. When I put T-Hoe's window down at the bank drive-thru, I smelled SKUNK! I was hoping the smell wasn't in the water droplets along the window edge, since my armpit was resting there when I reached for the canister.

When I got to the Sis-Town Casey's for T-Hoe's gas, the smell was strong when I got out. Surely all that rain would have washed off the skunky spray during my travels! Yet when I came back out to the pumps, there was the smell again. 

By the time I left the School-Turn Casey's and started back towards Backroads, I'd had enough of that smell. Maybe it was INSIDE the car! I put down the front passenger window, and the back seat window behind me. Temps were in the mid-50s, so I wasn't cold. I made sure the ventilation was not on recirculate. I drove five miles like that. It seemed to clear out the odor. Yet when I got out at Country Mart to get my $3 scratchers from the machine, the skunk smell was waiting for me as I stepped out.

I don't know what to expect when I go out to the garage tomorrow, considering that T-Hoe has been marinating in skunk juice for 24 hours.

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  1. I have faith that Hick will be able to resolve this issue! I bet some of the skunk's body had washed into the entire road surface and your tires are the culprit. Maybe you should pour vinegar on them?

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    1. I thought maybe some of the spray had splashed up onto T-Hoe from the road water. I didn't tell Hick yet, because he got home later than normal and I was making supper. Surely the smell will eventually dissipate...

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  2. You've probably got bits of skunk in the treads of T-Hoe's tyres. You're going to have to crawl around and dig that out with an old chopstick or something. or hose them out with a strong jet of water.

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    1. Heh, heh! I am snorting at the vision of me lying on a car-creeper, hacking at T-Hoe's tires with an old chopstick! Everybody knows Val can't use chopsticks!

      The smell was ALMOST gone when I went to the garage. I wasn't even thinking about it, but a tiny whiff reminded me. Once in the driver's seat, I didn't notice it any more.

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    2. I can just see you sliding under your car, chopstick in hand ..... Too funny!

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    3. I hope you're enjoying that image with SMELLEVISION!

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