Rotten Tomatoes

(I am getting a shirt out of the laundry room and notice a bottle of Bloody-Mary mix next to the wash tub.)

Me: “Why is there bloody Mary mix in the laundry room?”

Dad: “Your mom heard that tomato juice gets skunk smell out.”

Me: “That doesn’t really answer my question.”

Dad: “The dog rolled in skunk smell, and we didn’t have any tomato juice.”

Me: “…so you washed her in Bloody-Mary mix?”

Dad: “Yes.”

(For the rest of the day, both parents kept asking me to smell the dog too, to make sure it ‘worked’.)