The skunk was under the stoop by my front door,\u00a0next to the basement.<\/p>\n
I could hardly breathe in the basement.\u00a0 How was I supposed to play clarinet?<\/p>\n
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Skunks are<\/strong><\/span> bad people.\u00a0 The city won’t deal with them.\u00a0 So I hired a private company, Critter Control.<\/p>\n The Critter Control\u00a0 “technician” liked my collection of Jewish-star necklaces — Purim bling — in my basement.\u00a0 He said he was Jewish.\u00a0(I run into Jewish handymen more often than most people, I think.)\u00a0 He said, “I don’t know much about the ritual and all that, but my mother was Jewish.”<\/p>\n “If you say you’re Jewish, that’s good enough for me,” I said.\u00a0 And get rid of the skunk, please.<\/em> He set a trap under the stoop.<\/p>\n And he sold<\/strong><\/span> me a can of Odor Assassin for $15.\u00a0 Just three squirts of the spray got rid of the skunk smell in the basement.<\/p>\n When the Yiddishe Cup musicians came over for rehearsal that night, the basement smelled tangy and lemon-lime fresh, courtesy of the Odor Assassin.<\/p>\n But the skunk decided to spray, counterattacking during rehearsal. I thought Yiddishe Cup would disband.\u00a0 I said, “Let me get out my\u00a0Odor Assassin.\u00a0 It’ll only take five years off our lives, at most.”<\/p>\n The guys agreed to the chemical battle.<\/p>\n Odor Assassin<\/strong><\/span> saved Yiddishe Cup’s rehearsal.\u00a0 (No small thing. Some Yiddishe Cup musicians drive up to 35 minutes to rehearsal.)<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup rarely endorses products.\u00a0 To date: Golden Herring and all sardines.\u00a0 Add Odor Assassin.<\/p>\n My basement — where Yiddishe Cup rehearses — smelled like a skunk. The skunk was under the stoop by my front door,\u00a0next to the basement. I could hardly breathe in the basement.\u00a0 How was I supposed to play clarinet? Skunks are bad people.\u00a0 The city won’t deal with them.\u00a0 So I hired a private company, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9022,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"odor-assassin\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/odor-assassin-227x300.jpg\" "\\"odor-assassin\\"")
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