Day 30---Day 10

Describe your most embarrassing moment.

This one was easy! I mean...I have a lot of embarrassing moments to choose from but the one that stands out above all the others.....

I was in 4th grade.

I woke up on this particular day -it happened to be Dr. Seuss's birthday...I remember the library teacher wearing her hat and read us Dr. Seuss books- to get ready for school. Anyways. I had a terrible taste in my mouth. It was bad...and then I smelled it. It was an awful smell. The smell of a skunk. Gross.

I crawl out of bed and walk to the kitchen to find my family there. I remember fixing myself a cup of orange juice to try and get the awful taste out of my mouth. I asked my mom what was going on. I found out our house had been sprayed by a skunk. Somehow, they managed to crawl through a tiny hole to get under our house.

Everything smelled like a skunk. Everything.

I was terrified of going to school and smelling like a skunk. I remember eating my breakfast and asking dad if anybody would be able to smell me. He said that I should be fine. Devin had already left for school and went to the neighbors to see if he smelled of skunk or not. He didn't.

So off to school I went. I walked into the gym and sat down with my class. Immediately a classmate of mine says, "Ewwww. It smells like skunk."

I was humiliated. And I just sat there keeping my distance from people even though I knew they could still smell it. Never did I say that it was me...I just sat there. The entire day. I probably said nothing but a couple of words that whole school day. I guess I thought maybe if I sat there and moved as little as possible and talking only when asked a question, no one would notice. It was probably the longest 7 hours of my life.

Why did I smell and nobody else in my family did? The skunk sprayed directly under my room. Perfect.

Worst. Day. Ever.

To this day I do not have a good relationship with skunks. Not only did they spray our house that one time but two or three times. We had to go stay at a hotel because it was so bad. And there was no way I was going back to school smelling like a skunk.

In high school, I was driving home from my piano lesson (my teacher lives out in the country) and ran over a skunk leaving my car to smell like skunk for quite sometime. There was no way for me to avoid hitting it...I was coming up to the top of the hill and it ran right out in front of me leaving no time to even think about hitting my breaks or trying to miss it.

So to this day, when I hear the word skunk, or smell one, I shiver. It's a constant reminder of that awful day in 4th grade... Dr. Seuss's birthday...