See title. Thanks!<\/p>\n
Jon was driving to a church council meeting when he chanced upon Flower (the skunk from Bambi) walking down the middle of the road. He honked at it and it refused to move. (Apparently, it thought it was a match for a Volvo station wagon.) He swerved to avoid it… and still ended up hitting it. Apparently Thumper also had a death wish because he ran across the road TWICE and then toward Jon’s headlights. He however did not get hit.<\/p>\n
When Jon got home, I asked him how bad the car was and his response: “Pretty bad.” I stuck my nose outside and was overcome by “l’eau de dead skunk”. Since we live in the middle of freaking nowhere and need this car on a daily basis, we had two choices: drive 100 miles to Havre where there *might* be an automatic carwash or drive 110 miles to Great Falls where I *know* there is an automatic carwash. (The trip to Great Falls is also 90% on the interstate, so it’s mildly safer that hauling tail to Havre at 9:30 at night.)<\/p>\n
I grabbed my crocheting and off we went to Great Falls where the automatic carwash of choice was being remodelled. The nice people did point us to another one and give us a couple coupons for it, so we drove another 4 blocks and went in and got “THE WORKS” package. The people at the counter looked at us like we were insane (which we are, thank you) and warned us that our doors might freeze shut. (Yes… but it’s also easier to get dead skunk off the car when it’s not frozen on.) So we went through the carwash and the end result was a less stinky car. (I’m thinking the smell will wear off in a month?)<\/p>\n
We drove back up to the town of 10 people where we live and got home about 1:15. There was no romantic Valentine’s day activity after that point: just the sound of both of us falling onto the bed and being asleep the second our heads hit the pillow.<\/p>\n
Anyone want to try and beat this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
See title. Thanks! Jon was driving to a church council meeting when he chanced upon Flower (the skunk from Bambi) walking down the middle of the road. He honked at it and it refused to move. (Apparently, it thought it … Continue reading