Heart still pounding, feeling hot and sweaty, kicking myself for being foolish! Tonight after a lovely evening eating dinner with my family, watching Oz the Great and Powerful, eating delicious homemade chocolate ice cream, and marveling at the amazing full moon, I packed up and headed up to my house. I make the trek between the two houses many times each day, and plenty of times in the dark. Tonight as I walked up the driveway I heard a lot of crunching. Shining my light around, which I just realized was very weak and getting weaker, I spotted a mass of black and white fluff waddling toward me. Skunk! I calmly walked backwards down the driveway, losing sight of his eyes as I walked. Suddenly his eyes reappeared closer than they should have been. I sprinted down the driveway and slammed into the front door; dad had locked it after me. Naturally I did what any rational person would do, knocked and rang the doorbell till someone came to let me in. After making it safely inside and explaining my situation, dad went out to investigate. After several minutes I thought I would go check on him, you all know where this is going don’t you? I stood on the porch looking around for dad, saw his flashlight, and started to walk toward him. Suddenly another rustle alerted me to the aforementioned animal just a few feet away!!! Thankfully he hurried away from me just as fast as I hurried away from him. Unfortunately he nearly ran straight into dad in the process, but we ended up having a smelly-free evening in the end. Moral of the story, do not go to investigate people going to investigate skunks, it could result in a scary, or stinky, encounter.
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