How To Liven Up Your Sewing Day
We finally got springtime weather here, and the wife had the shop door open to take advantage of the cool breeze at about 10 in the morning. The flies aren’t out bad yet, and we get cabin fever just like everyone else. There was nobody in the shop but her as she worked on some alterations, and the door motion detector had been silent, when she got the slight whiff of a skunk. She was just thinking to herself that she hoped that skunk didn’t try to come into the shop, when she noticed movement by her left foot. Her sewing table is about 20 feet in from the doorway.
The skunk was already in the shop with her! She pretty much froze like a deer in the headlights, except her left toe moved just a little, and the skunk retreated back toward the open door but decided to rummage around on a shelf under the backside of the checkout counter for a while. About that time, a customer headed into the shop out on the sidewalk. The wife called “don’t come in, I have a skunk in here!” at which time the customer came into the shop and asked her what she’d said.
The wife got the customer on in away from the checkout counter. The skunk got out from under the counter and hopped up onto the front display window platform, and then headed along the window across toward the open door. Then it turned and headed back across it away from the door. Then it went the other way again. The ladies had differing views on either side of the counter, and neither could see an area directly behind the counter, so they began calling the action that “he’s over by the door” and “he’s back over on my side now”.
The skunk reversed travel a couple more times before finally hopping down into the open doorway, out the door, and on out onto the sidewalk. The last time that the ladies saw the skunk, it had crossed the street and headed up the alley to go liven up someone else’s day. The wife closed the front door.
It wasn’t a full-grown skunk, but it wasn’t a little baby one either. After he left, there was no lingering smell, no damage, just a close call, and a great (true) story. Small town life can be so interesting. And no, she didn’t get any photos of it, but thanked me for asking......
CD in Oklahoma