What’s That Smell?
Stupid things I do October 20th, 2009
4:15 AM
Me: Dave, I think there’s a fire in the house.
Hubs: What?
Me: It smells like fire.
Hubs: What? Go back to sleep.
Me: Wait. No. It smells like burnt coffee.
Hubs: Uh. No. It’s a skunk.
Me: Is not.
Hubs: Skunk sprayed outside.
Me: Maybe the furnace is broken.
Hubs: Skunk.
Me, on the floor, smelling the heating vent: Well, it’s not the heat.
Hubs: Skunk.
Me: I swear, it smells like burnt coffee. Maybe the cats turned on the coffee maker somehow. The pot’s not empty. Remember how Lucky called your brother stepping on my cell phone? He could totally turn on the coffee maker.
Hubs: It’s a skunk. And if you say one more thing, I’m putting a pillow over your head.
Stumble it!
October 21st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
“”Ew. Pickles that Werent Pickles?”
Nope. It was a whole gallon of white vinegar. It was so bad that I blogged about the smell, too
http://thesnackhound.com/2009/10/21/the-pathogens-are-out-to-get-me/
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October 21st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I didn’t realize burnt coffee smells like skunk. I’ll have to make sure to buy the deskunkinated coffee next time.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 am
LoL….Not so funny if you lay there and the house really is on fire but your detectors aren’t working. I have ready too many reports of this happening. Think you should have checked? When my heat came on the first time it did smell like something burning. Just the heat though I checked. Now it find.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 am
My family lived in the country for a while when I was a teenager. One night, a skunk got into our basement and sprayed down there–that is a funk of such incredible magnitude that you never forget it. We had to stay in a hotel for a few days while the house aired out. I’m glad your famous nose was confused this time, and your house wasn’t burning!
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
So, I gotta know. Did he toot and pull the covers over your head just for the fun of it. Maybe, it wasn’t a skunk…but him!
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October 22nd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Me: It smells like fire.
Hubs: What? Go back to sleep.
Best response ever.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Love the pic… I think I can smell the skunk too!
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I think it was a skunk making coffee, but what do I know?
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October 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I hate that when it happens…hope you solved the mystery.
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
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October 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Did you really check it out and investigate where the smell came from?
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October 24th, 2009 at 2:25 am
One clothes peg. Problem solved. Just sayin’. 🙂
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October 24th, 2009 at 8:51 am
LOL! Nice story. Was what it really?! A burning coffee?! A skunk?! or A fire because the skunk turned on the coffee maker with Lucy’s help?! 😉
October 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
TheSnackHound — I could definitely see how a bowl full of vinegar would permeate the whole house. Wow. That’s nasty!
AVCr8teur — Neither did my sister, who promptly emailed me to say she and her co-workers were just arguing over whether skunk can smell like coffee. All her coworkers who read my post got to say “See??? Kathy says so!”
AuntieE — I thought of getting up and checking for a split second, but then I thought it was just our furnace kicking in. Then the coffee. I do wonder how many people wait a while before discovering a real fire in their houses. Time is so critical. I promise next time I’ll check.
absepa — In a hotel for only a few days? I would have thought two weeks. I can’t imagine the smell in there. I mean, when you pass an area where a skunk was hit by a car, you can smell it for a mile in all directions. My God. You have my deepest sympathies.
MA Fat Woman — My husband knows not to EVER do that to me or I’ll divorce him just as soon as I punch him in the teeth.
Jeff — He is a man of few words and doesn’t really care to argue the finer points of smells in the middle of the night.
Nessa — Yeah, that was a good one. Went well with the stench in here.
Knucklehead — I have a funny image in my head of a skunk sitting at my kitchen table, reading the paper over a cup of Folgers. He’s a cartoon, though, so no smell.
Dorothy Stahlnecker — It definitely was a skunk. An idiot skunk who decided our house made a good mark.
roxx — Well, we determined it was really a skunk. No fire, no smoke, no burnt coffee. I did look out on the back porch to see if a skunk was dead out there, but we figure he just sprayed somewhere and went on his merry, smelly way.
Spencey — That would have been too easy. Good to see you here! Love your blog!
Bread Maker Matt — It was a skunk all right. No mistaking it. It would have been funny to see Lucky explaining the coffee maker to a skunk. “See, now this is how you do it. There’s a lot of buttons here, but you only need this one to turn it on. Now make me breakfast.”
October 24th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Ugh- my cat was out in the yard PLAYING with a skunk recently; can you believe it? I consider us infinitely lucky that the skunk seemed to enjoy it, rather than respond as their kind is known to do.
October 25th, 2009 at 7:31 am
I’m such an over-smeller of stuff, too. For instance, I’ll pick my cats up, and snuggle their tummies, and often smell something funny. Like my boy-cat, Mr Taro, will sometimes smell of millipede or ant, though my fiancé says neither of those creatures have smells, but I’m 100% sure they do! Sometimes the cats smell like other stuff, like icing sugar, though I don’t know why.
My girl-cat, Puk, spends less time outside, I think that’s why she has less odd smells about her. >^-^<
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October 26th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Haha! Maybe your cat got sprayed by a skunk, or brought one home! I hope that you were able to find the smell to take care of it!!
October 28th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Christian — Aren’t they supposed to know that’s a bad idea? Like having some kind of inborn warning system that developed over millennia?
Elisha — Oh! Oh! I think bugs and stuff can smell, too! I think worms have a smell. It’s like wet, rotting blanket. Now, the icing sugar thing is interesting. I would love for my cats to smell of that. Is one of your cats named Cupcake, by any chance?
Laser John — Thankfully, none of my cats go outside anymore. If they had a run-in with a skunk, they’d be eating their meals outside for a month.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Hehehe, no, the boy cat is named Mr Taro. Taro is a Japanese name which means ‘First born son’ as a name, but ‘big boy’ as a word. He’s both our first male cat, and a big boy… he’s fat in the midsection. ^-^
Our girl-cat, who began the Japanese name tradition, is named Puk after A Midsummer Night’s Dream – different spelling I know – and her other name is Punkuma, which was the word written on a teddy bear on a tea cup I have that came from Japan. I knew Kuma meant ‘bear’ so I thought the word meant ‘teddy bear’ but it’s actually a character’s name and it means either ‘bakery bear’ or ‘bread bear’. ^-^
Worms seem to have a very yucky smell, but I’ll still rescue them from a hot foot-path. ^-^
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Elisha — I love the stories behind your cats’ names! Nothing wrong with Bakery Bear or Bread Bear in my book. I used to collect bears and most have been given names. Can’t help it. Pets and bears gotta have names. You’re a good soul for saving worms.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:03 am
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