Back in the old days we built our businesses 100% face to face and belly to belly. So back in my first company my enroller Mary Coop and I did alot of meetings together. This particular night we had a meeting about an hour east of KC out in the middle of nowhere. When I say in the middle of nowhere I mean nowhere. LOL!
It was about 10:30pm CST at night and we had just finished our presentation. We had a few enrollments and were very happy about the meeting. We were chatting along as we rode back to Mary’s.
All of sudden as we top this hill we see this big fat skunk right in the middle of the road. Mary was driving her 280Z. It was a real beater banger car. The car was mechanically sound but it was not the prettiest thing to look at. It had holes in the floorboards on both the driver side and the passenger side of the car. They had placed cardboard over the holes as to not let exhaust fumes in and the cold in as well. That night it did not matter! Keep in mind we are on a two lane road in the middle of nowhere just topping this hill. Mary had to think quick. She did everything to avoid the skunk but all for nothing. We hit the skunk head on!
The look on the face of the skunk was that of terror. The look on both of our faces was the “deer in the headlights” look but we knew what was inevitable. Have you ever run over a skunk? You know that smell they put out? That car filled quickly with the odor. It was horrendous! We talked about that experience all the way home. It was over a 45 minute ride home. So the topic of the enrollment meeting was drowned out by the talk of the skunk in the road.
As we arrived back at Mary’s house her husband could actually smell us coming up her long drive way. It was embarrassing to say the least.
Mary and I still talk about that experience like it was yesterday. This event actually happened in 1998.
Until next time!
written by Willy Nelson Jr.
