One day, a friend of mine came over to visit, and he — also me and my roommate. So it was the three of us visiting, my roommate and I on one side of a very small porch, he on the other side, and we had decided to order pizza. So, we’re eating pizza on the porch in a city, and I’m — and, I should say, if this makes a difference to anyone, that I owned the home that we were at, so I’m not being a total animal when I describe what happened next. But I’m eating the pizza, and I don’t really like crusts that much, so I was throwing the crusts into the bushes. And in my head I’m thinking, “Eventually, something, some critter, will find this.”
So as I’m doing this, my roommate who by nature is anxious — and during COVID was beyond anxious, to the point that it was often stressful to be around her. So, anyway, I’m throwing these crusts into the bushes and she says something about, “You need to be careful or you’re gonna lure, you know, like a skunk here.” So, you know, in my head I’m thinking, “Yeah, it could be a skunk that eventually eats this. It could be a raccoon or a possum or birds, you know, why does it have to be the worst thing?” So that’s the first thought I have. And the second thought I have is like, “Okay, well that’s not gonna happen anytime soon.” And I say as much, I say, “Yeah, I’m really not that worried about it, it’s fine.”
As I’m saying that, middle of the day, a skunk walks across the street, right towards where I was throwing these crusts. And honestly, I think skunks can have rabies, and they definitely are not usually active during the day, or at least I don’t normally see them, especially in an urban setting, but it was just like comedic timing. Immediately after I said that, this thing waddles across the street and I’m like, “Come on.” Like most of the time when my roommate is being very anxious, it is unfounded. And this time when I thought maybe it was unfounded, it turned out that I was very wrong. So thankfully, we just kind of slowly — I and my roommate — slowly went in the house. And my friend was able to go off the porch and avoid the skunk, so we disbanded at that point. But yeah, that was a funny moment that immediately, I was proven wrong.