11-21-14

Me: So I have a skunk story. On Wednesday Bob & I were getting dressed up to attend Highly's funeral. I had on a dress & Bob a shirt & tie. We thought Bob should bring a suit coat along so he grabbed a nice navy jacket that been handed down to him from our brother-in-law, Dean. Bob hadn't worn the jacket before but it fit perfectly & looked really nice (it had been hanging in our guest closet for a year). As we drove to the church Bob laid the jacket in the back of our car. When we got to the church Bob decided not to wear it as it was warm & others were in a shirt & tie only. A couple hours later after the service we got in the car. I got in first and noticed a strong skunk smell. It was awful!! Bob got in & he agreed the car was reeking of skunk. We rolled down the windows & turned on the air while we looked under the seat for something causing the smell. We wondered if Harley had been sprayed and maybe it rubbed off on the upholstery? But that didn't make sense…we would have noticed at home. Then Bob looked in the back of the car and saw Dean's suit coat and remembered…

Three years ago Dean and Joan's dog, Rudy had been sprayed by a skunk at their Chicago home. It happened the morning they had to drive 6 hours to Iowa for our nieces wedding (and they brought along their dog after several intense washes). Bob & I had flown back to Iowa for the same wedding and when we arrived Joan & Dean were still trying to rid Rudy of his skunk smell. Even when we rode in their car to the wedding we held our noses…those skunks stink up everything! Anyway…fast forward to Wednesday. Bob looked at Dean's jacket in the back of the car and said it must be that jacket and yep, it was!! We concluded Dean wore that jacket to our niece's wedding 3 years ago. Dean & Joan had been in their car for hours with a skunk sprayed dog as they drove to Iowa. It wore off on his clothes. And for 3 years the coat held that stink which we never noticed until it lay in a warm car for 2 hours. The revelation was hysterical. We just couldn't believe it. We called Joan & laughed so hard. As we drove away from the church we dropped off the navy suit coat in a McDonald's trash can.