Woes of the Exit.

[JCourneyaP]

This morning on the way home from work I stopped on the “Loop” exiting Highway 610 to Highway 10. This exit has tall grass on one side and a pond with some bushes on the other.

The cars stacked up behind me. One kind soul a few cars back in a lowered Dodge Ram Full Size Pickup hit the horn. “What a waste to lower a full size truck!” Anyway I raised a finger in acknowledgement to his Good Morning.

Now Flashback about 17 years! I had a 1980 Chevy Malibu 2 Door with a manual 3 on the floor. I put a new rebuilt cam’d 350 into it. Pulled some heads off a Corvette and had them machined. Intake. Holly carburetor. Headers. High output distributer and so forth.

I raised the @&& end and threw a set of Keystone Classics with wide back tires. You all know the type of car.... I had her polished and styling.

On the way into work one evening a “Skunk” was crossing the freeway. I timed it just right. Went over the top of him and saw him going the opposite direction in my rearview mirror. Good no squish!

However the little Bastard sprayed the bottom of my car. I must have pressure washed that thing every day for a month. Geez did it smell bad. I ended up stinking just riding in it. It took a long time for the stink to go away.

Now to the present! Peppy La Pew was crossing the road in front of me on the loop towards the pond. Small enough to run over or I could try and swerve??

The flashback of my car told me to stop until his wiggly little butt was out of site.

I proceeded when the air was clear only to see Peppy in my mirror coming back out onto the road under the truck…..

[frisco-rigid]

Fantastic----

Ya just can't make up stuff like that,, waaay more fun than fiction..

Hope Peppy gave him a double surprise.

[BlueBob]

Sweet justice!

Poetic Justice! Awesome story.

I thought my ride in the pouring rain yesterday was irritating. I couldn't imagine getting sprayed by a skunk. YUCK!

Better Peppy than you! LMAO!

[botzman]

Speakin of skunks...few years back while riding through PA and camping, sitting around the fire this dang skunk had the b*lls to walk right through the campsite between us and the fire. I guess he had the nozzle set to stink if we messed with him. For once we were smart enough not to fool with mother nature. Now ....two six packs later and we probably would have all smelled like skunk funk. BOtz

[AdamWilliams]

Here's a skunk related tip learned from experience: Now that the warm season has arrived, the skunkers are out in force at night foraging, thus increasing the potential to hit one, or pass fresh skunk-kill. If you're in a car, make sure your vents are closed when you're out and about. If they're open and the guy in front of you just pancaked poor Pepe, you'll get one hellish cloud of eau-de-skunk in your vehicle courtesy of those open vents.

If yer on a bike, you'll be one smelly mofo.

[SamW]

Woe is me. I rode over a skunk once and then tried to sell the bike. Let's just say it wasn't exactly like selling hos on a battleship.

[GOMO]

Another stinker of a flashback:

Cruising around in a '69 Camaro convertable one summers eve at dusk when one of those white striped aromic wood cats scurried out into my path. Too late to avoid the little ba$tard, I forged ahead only to hear a thump but no view of the varmit in my rear view mirror. Wound up that the little fella got caught up in the emergency brake cable and I not only dragged him to the point of the power bag unloading the smell we all speak of, but it became rear axle ground meat that took a long pole and a fistful of quarters at the self serve car wash to try to even reduce the odor damage............love those memories