Brad, I experienced a new side effect of electric cars this morning. Oh, good. That's life with a new paradigm shifting product, right? And every day is a new adventure. I mean, it is. I had to get up this morning and go to the grocery store right when they opened at six. And I walked out and we have skunks in our neighborhood. So you like, you kind of take a look when you step out on the front porch and give it an eyeball, make sure there's nothing around. but I got all the way into the car.

I unplugged the car.

I got into the car. And as I was sitting down, I see a little white bushy tail just walking right right, right underneath the front right corner of the car. Wait, cars out on the driveway. This is not in the garage. The garage is full of crap. There's

no cars fitting in there. Of course. Yeah, it's California. We don't have closets. So I see the bushy tail and I'm like, well, shit, what do I do? Because normally you just kind of start the car and then the skunk would scurry out and it'd be like, oh, this is a sound I'm familiar with. But the electric car kind of doesn't make a startup sound. Oh, no. It goes wher, where, we're driving down the street so you don't like tag somebody. I'm sorry. This is a full category difference on the type of problem that I thought you were going to come in here and talk about. No. So I was sitting in there. I was like, how do I deal with, like, I don't want to honk because I don't want to startle it. I turned off the air conditioning and the vent first. That was the number one, right? Your number one priority here is to not prevent spray, right? Setting aside the actual priority of you also don't want to run over it, which both kills the animal and also still releases the stink.

That's a sometimes problem. Oh, does that not always happen? They do not always release on death. Ah, okay. Well, you don't want to run over it or have it spray. I like generally speaking, even though they're incredibly destructive to my yard, which is not beautiful. I kind of like the skunks. They're very cute. They're quite affable.

And I think we've talked about before, I had a crazy aunt who had a pet skunk for a while.

What?

Did I not have I told you this? No in the house. Oh, yeah. What? So she was a nature cinematographer and she found a, uh, a baby skunk whose mom had been killed in an accident when she's on a shoot

out in like Missouri or Nebraska or someplace one time and violating, but I'm sure are several

federal and state laws. She brought it back to Northern Virginia with her. And, uh, its name was

squirt. It was, it never, it, she had it for like six years. It didn't spray ever. Not once. Not, uh, that I'm aware of. She had leaked occasionally. Mm. Just like a little, little, little, little taste of. But generally speaking, squirt was really chill, very affectionate, would like sit on your

lap and was very snugly, almost like a cat. Where you held the skunk? I've, I've held a pet skunk. Yeah, she found a vet that would help her take care of it. Um, that would like give it shots and stuff so it could get, I assume rabies vaccines. I don't know. I didn't ask. I was young when this happened. And then eventually when it got to a,

when it got to a point where it was starting to leak more often, she gave it to like nature,

like a, like a children's nature museum type situation. Good, I guess. I have to imagine after

six years, that's probably not easy to part. I mean, I'm going to go and tell you when it started leaking more, it became a pretty easy decision. I see. Yes. Also, I say she was a little bit like, look, the house always had a little bit of a funk, right? It was not like skunk free. But anyway, so the skunks under the front of the car and I'm like well this is

an intractable position because I didn't see it come back out I like I load up the doorbell

camera to see if I can see it walking around out there nope nothing I put the overhead because

the car has the whole around the car cameras and I hit that button after a minute or two and I

realized but then I was like well after a minute or two when I realized

but then I was like well crap what do I do I don't I don't know I don't know what to do here

so I sat there for a minute and then I like rolled forward just a smidge and nothing shot out from

under the car and so then I drove off and it was fine it must have gone out the back when back when I wasn't looking. Just, okay. No idea how it resolves away. Hang on, just to back up or are you saying that skunks in the area have become accustomed to the sound of combustion engines and no to get out of the way? I think generally speaking, animals that live in suburban areas are familiar with the sound of combustion engines and know not to be there.

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