Skunked...2

.... I'll be adding more as she finds ways to triumph over Pepe's unwanted aroma. I still have to tell you how she handled the vinegar skunk scent, the lemon skunk scent and the whole Brady Bunch tomato juice saga.... and a flashback about why she was wondering how this was happening again.

Argh....she was back in the house with one really really really really smelly dog, one sorta smelly dog and she herself warn't too fragrant either.  Again??? Did ALL animals really have to like her? She would have been ok if skunks thought she was too icky to deal with. Really, she would. The last one took up residence and while she didn't want it to die, she certainly wouldn't have minded it moving to another country.

....Wavy flashback music....She's back in a condo in West Knoxville, not too far from her house in the present. It's somewhere around 2002 and no dogs are in her life yet. She wakes up to a horrble burning smell. Horrible. 'I'll call my neighbor Susan to see if she smells this too'.  Susan is afraid one of her cats sprayed but no, it wasn't that. 

Lo and behold, maintenance discovered that a skunk had died in the crawl space under her condo. She vacummed, she cleaned the carpet with a profressional machine, she scrubbed and she cleaned again. No dice. 'This stinks. Literally.' When she talked to the landlord, one the office ladies came and brought her little boy with her. From then on, she as known as 'the skunk lady' in the office. 'This is what I want to be called in my life.' 

The apartments offered a new condo but she decided since she was traveling with work so much anyway, she would just move back home for awhile. There was NO staying in that apartment. Even her furniture reaked!!! When the office lady came back to check her out and go over the apartment with her, the lady brought a stick of some sort that when stuck into carpets, detected cat dander. No matter how many times she told her that she didn't have a cat, the lady just looked at her and kept sticking the carpet. Of course she didn't ever find anything. When the lady's back was turned, she stuck her tongue out at her. 'It's your stinky apartment now! You figure it out.'

....Wavy flashback music....Back to the present... She remembered that ammonia didn't work - law no! Almost as bad as skunk by itself is ammonia-scented skunk.

More to come.....we still have to learn about lemon juice, tomato juice and vinegar, as well as her smart Maisy, the only smart creature in the house! :)