Deb, over at Nope, Not Pam, has this weekly challenge called A Letter a Week where she gives us a place, an emotion, an adjective, a verb, and an animal all starting with the same letter. Then she asks us to write a post using those items and the letter she has given us, which this week is the letter S.
Here are Deb’s S-words:
Place – school
Emotion – sense of wonder
Adjective – snug
Verb – scrubbed
Animal – skunk
I really, really liked school. As a kid with a keen sense of wonder, I always felt snug as a bug in a rug when I was in the classroom learning things.
One day, a kid in my class brought his pet skunk, Pepe Le Pew, to school for Show and Tell.
I had always wondered about skunks, and seeing one in real life was fascinating.
My curiosity about the skunk brought me very close to the skunk’s cage. Perhaps too close. I may have frightened the little fellow, because he suddenly turned around, raised his tail, and sprayed me. It was awful.
I had to throw away the clothes I wore that day because no matter how strenuously my mother scrubbed them, she couldn’t get the stink out. And no matter how many times I washed my hair and body, it took a few weeks before the stink from the skunk finally completely faded away.
This, That, and the Other 
🦨 🤧 I could say this story stinks but you might take it the wrong way! A nice fun enjoyable read! Better you than me lol!! Working on my story and taking a whole different route. 😳
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It’s the different routes that make these prompts enjoyable.
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A good friend of mine had a descented pet skunk and he also had a pet snake. He was so spoiled, and he got whatever he wanted from his parents.
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Sheesh. Why didn’t they just get him a cat and a hamster?
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The snake was such a useless pet, as all it ever did was lay in the bottom of its cage, but my friend enjoyed watching it eat live mice.
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There’s a cure from this, tomato juice.
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According to my dog’s groomer, the tomato juice remedy is a myth. Hydrogen peroxide or special products, such as “Nature’s Miracle” is what she recommends.
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When my dog got sprayed, I used Dawn dishwashing soap, tomato juice, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda. And even with that, every time he got wet (from rain), the skunk smell returned for about 3-4 months.
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Must be very tough.
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SSSSSuperb use of the prompts!
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Thanks!
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I’ve always wondered if the smell is that bad, gather it is from this tale 😳
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The smell is all that everyone says it is…and worse.
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Lol, true story? Or fiction! 💖💖
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This was fiction, but my dog and I did once get sprayed by a skunk.
https://fivedotoh.com/2021/01/20/close-encounters-of-the-worst-kind/
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I’m sad we don’t have these little creatures down here. They look so cute……….
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You really don’t have skunks in Australia? That stinks. Well, actually it’s skunks that stink.
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We are skunkless. But lots of snakes…….
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Smelling dead skunks on the roadway is the closest I have even been to being sprayed… I can’t imagine how awful it would be!
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It’s bad. Very, very bad.
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