It's nice to come home from a trip, and settle back into some familiar activities, and unpack your suitcase, and then get in your car for a trip to the grocery to replenish your refrigerator, and OHMYGODWHATISTHATSMELL!!! Yes, while I was gone, somehow my car got skunked. I'm not even sure it was an actual skunk, but since I didn't leave a sirloin steak or a bag of tomatoes under my front seat sealed up in a hot car for a week, it's the only explanation I have...unless someone came in my house while I was gone, took my car keys, and then drove my car through four states at about 800 miles an hour with the emergency brake on, making skid marks with my tires. Because all I can smell is something awfully close to burning rubber, which several sources say is very skunk-like.
It's not full-on skunk, thank goodness. It's innocent bystander skunk, like maybe the skunk sprayed an unfortunate victim close to my front tires, and it wafted into my car like some kind of mutated Chanel No. 5 on steroids.
It made me want to go get some of that "Febreze Stick & Refresh," the product they keep advertising by taking people blindfolded into hoarder houses with what must be dead animals under mountains of pizza boxes, and the blindfolded paid actors exclaim, "It smells like a garden! Like fresh flowers and a day at the beach! I love the way this smells with my blindfold on!" And then they take off the blindfolds, and boy are they surprised they're standing in the middle of a skeevy mess!
Yes, that's what I'll do. I'll get some of that. I just have to figure out how to drive with that blindfold on.
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