Monday, December 05, 2005
Roadkill
 | Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell |
So I was coming back from my parents' place. I'd just gotten into town and was close to home, and then I saw it. A skunk was waddling across Colorado Blvd, and the most I could do to avoid it was swerve a little. Thunk. I hit the damn thing with my driver side rear tire. The smell...oh man. So I immediately stopped at the car wash and soaped it and rinsed it off and headed home. I forgot something in the car, and when I went out to get it, I could literally smell that stuff the second I left my apartment. The car is parked 30 feet away from my door.Apparently tomato juice helps get rid of the odor. I go to Kroger and get a couple huge cans of tomato juice and pour it all over the tire, then drive to the car wash. I pour another can on the back bumper and more on the tire. Another soap and rinse down. I decide to drive down to Ft. Worth and back with the sunroof open, hoping that the air and pavement will take some of the stench away. I get back into town and go through a $7 deluxe-super-awesome-auto-carwash. The Pathfinder's now sitting under my carport with the sunroof open so it doesn't reek inside. I don't think the smell was ever too bad inside, just on the back tire. We'll see in the morning.
I hate skunks.
