Previously I shared with you my son's matrimonial plans, which involved my demise, and his wedded bliss with my wife, his mom, Cynthia.

(See, Freud and Me" on iBrattleboro. Since the time of that post, my son has also proposed to me, as well as my wife, and has announced that when he grows up, he is going to have a big beard, drive a cement truck and live at home with both of us.)

Now, it is my responsibility to share with you my son's latest pronouncement, which is of a much broader, and ecological nature.

Apparently, the species known to scientists as, Mephitis mephitis, is no more.

Here in his own words, is how the skunk became extinct.

"Some of the skunks didn't want to live and went under the wheels of the cars, and some were chased by swords. I don't know why the swords chased the skunks. And some of the skunks got a disease. And now, all the skunks, all the skunks, are dead, and there are no more skunks."

There you have it.

I don't know that it's true. But I do know that I haven't seen a skunk since my boy made this pronouncement.

So, it could be true, and I will accept it as possibly true until someone sends me photographic proof to the contrary.



Rolf