Hudson Heights Skunk'd?
This is how it all went down...
10:30 Watching Flip This House on the TiVO -- it's kinda like Dukes of Hazzard meets Trading Spaces.
10:35 Lucy awakens from her couch nap, sniffs the air -- barks once.
10:36 We discuss how Lucy never barks ... Lucy plops to the floor, proceeds to bedroom ... barks once more.
10:36:20 We cover our faces as dog fart stench hits us ... but wait, no -- is that skunk?
10:37 The apartment is awash in skunk juice horror ... we panic, thinking maybe one of the little bastards (but I hear they make great pets) has wandered into the building.
10:38 But wait -- we're in Manhattan! Okay, Washington Heights -- but STILL Manhattan. I almost faint. I gasp and my man tells me to stop being so dramatic. Then he makes one of those false barf sounds.
10:40 We hear screams from upstairs. The stench is spreading. They may have been watching a scary movie, but I'm willing to bet it's skunk horror.
10:47 The waves of death recede as the wind picks up. Life returns to normal. The Flip This House people fail to flip this house.
3:37 AM I wake. No -- you're kidding me. AGAIN! I start stuffing towels around the air conditioner. Where's that duct tape I bought two years ago? We are under attack. This time it is worse. Is he UNDER the bed? Lucy barks once, and returns to sleep. The man doesn't even stir. I lay awake ... it's an hour before i fall back asleep.
Skunks. Who knew? Take THAT downtown, with your "oh no, I smell maple syrup!" Anyone else from the 190th/Ft. Wash area experience the attack? Let me know....
Also: Skunks As Pets
UPDATE: Wow. My shirt smells like skunk. It was on a hanger in my room last night -- and now smells like skunk. How embarrassing. Send TOMATO JUICE!
10 comments:
I live on 181st & Amsterdam and I see these 2 cute racoons all the time. They are out every night on Laurel Hill Terrace munching there way through the garbage. Must say they sure are cute. They run right up the nearest tree as soon as they see my dog. Sure hope those skunks dont come down our way!
ohhh i used to have a pet skunk! but his stinker was removed when he was a baby.
Oh mah GAWD! You smelled a BAD SMELL for maybe twenty minutes.
Holy cripes. In Canada, skunks are all over. Sure, maybe if one gets you in the FACE you can whine, but for everything else? Puh. Lease.
Wow -- Canadians (me being one of them) can usually have a little fun. I guess we know who you voted for not long ago....
I shared a house for years in Connecticut with skunks who had a den just below the kitchen floorboards. I'd take their odor over the neverending stench in the Lex/51st St. subway station any day. Do New Yorkers actually get to the point where they ignore the aroma of raw sewage?
I betcha it was the new super skunk "evil-weed" being partaken in the downstairs appartment..lol
Just say No!
:)
Having grown up what New Yorkers call 'the country' (a New England suburb), I'm actually kind of fond of skunk odor, at least from a distance. If I'm driving and pass through a cloud of the stuff, I'll generally turn around and head back for another whiff. My wife thinks I'm insane, but I know there are others like me.
Hey, I can blend all these threads... I lived in Canada, now live on 181st street (though I haven't seen the racoons), a New England suburb, AND stank of skunk for the first month at my new school thanks to an amusing terrier-skunk encounter under our porch (mmm, skunk).
Here in San Diego, a skunk stops by once a week and blasts my bedroom window. The smell actually wakes me up. Wakes the cat up too. Together we stagger out of the room.
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