SkUnKeD!

my artist rendition of what it might have looked like. 

I'm sleeping soundly with the dogs. Cpap on, window open. woken up around 3:30 am with the half asleep memory of maybe hearing a woman shriek outside. I turn off my Cpap take a listen but don't hear anything and the dogs are not disturbed so I turn my machine back on and try to go to sleep. Then the overwhelming stench of skunk is being blasted straight into my nose through the Cpap. I get up to close the window and see my neighbors with their garage door open wondering what they're doing up and I notice they're frantically trying to wash their dog in the driveway. Must have been a late night pee walk and got skunked somewhere in front of my house and the shriek was my neighbor lady getting skunked.

My whole house smelled like skunk for an hour and I couldn't go back to sleep. Sorry, neighbors. That's gotta suck.

Also I'm not sure if I ever told this story here but I'm deathly afraid of skunks but not because of the above situation. It's totally irrational. I once had a dream where I was being chased by a wild pack of skunks through my old high school field. It was like 20 of them and they were angry. I was more afraid they were going to tear me up and eat me or something. Of course rationally I'm afraid of getting skunked too. I once hit a skunk with my car and my car smelled like skunk for like a year. Skunks, man. I hate em.