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[bluegreen17]

i'm happy because i didn't hit a skunk on the drive home from work tonight.

: )

that is all.

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[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

Good!
How is the smell in the car?

[bluegreen17]

we had a nice breeze going today and it wasn't too hot so i had the windows open. i also put a box of baking soda in the car,though i wasn't hoping for much. it seemed better. i got to work and i didn't smell like skunk. what a relief. and when i got in my car tonight,i hardly noticed a smell at all. maybe i'm just used to it,or maybe the baking soda helped. i drove by where i hit it last night and it still smells!

thanks for asking. silly me freaking out over it!

[ranunculus.livejournal.com]

I don't think that "freaking out" is silly at all. I can remember hitting a snake and feeling awful about it.

[godblossom.livejournal.com]

i had a seagull crash into my windscreen one morning - awful :( i can relate about freaking out over hitting a skunk.

glad its a little fresher though :)

Be thankful

[oxhead.livejournal.com]

It's pretty bad running over a skunk, I guess. But you should be thankful you haven't experienced what I have. Once, when I was getting home from work at night, I saw what I thought was a cat in our fenced-in front yard (we had had a problem with strays).

I took a few steps toward it, raising my arms over my head in an attempt to scare it away. It ran off, and crashed right into the chain link fence. What a strange thing for a cat to do, I thought. Is it OK?

I walked closer to it and BAM! I got sprayed right in the face. Take it from me, the smell is the least of your problems when you get the full skunk treatment because it's like mace, burning your eyes and skin.

Of course, I had to throw away every stitch of clothing I was wearing at the time and I took a tomato juice shower, a folk remedy that works, believe it or not. Still, I had to take the next two days off work because I could still smell that damn skunk odor in my hair.

My family for some reason thought this whole episode was comedic. I did not.

Re: Be thankful

[bluegreen17]

i can see why you didn't think it was funny! ouch! it's weird because the smell was like a burning smell,so...thtat must have really hurt! i guess i will be thankful that i didn't have a face-to-face encounter. the smell still haunts me and i'm sure it was much worse for you!