Entitled teacher gets skunked in the woods after ignoring former student: 'I tried to warn you about the skunk'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 20, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Everyone wishes some kind of comeuppance for that one teacher who gave them a rough time in high school. Perhaps you hope someone calls them out, or they get fired, or they slip on a banana peel in the cafeteria. No one could dream up this perfect confluence of events.

This student, who was now over ten years out of school, was still haunted by the treatment she received from one of her former teachers: Ms. Samantha. Ms. Samantha was an unkind excuse of a "professor" whose words had a long-term impact on this author and their educational future. Years after the damage was done, the author was visiting home and was taking a long walk in the park. That's when a chance encounter with a skunk and another chance encounter with Ms. Samantha herself gave the author the perfect plan. Keep scrolling below for her full account of the tense exchange with Ms. Samantha!

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  • No one has ever thanked a skunk more for anything ever… This student tried to warn Ms. Samantha about the skunk a few paces ahead, but Ms. Samantha was too above it to be bothered by the author's advice. When she came back, she knew that this was justice. Thankfully, who knew that getting attacked by a skunk would be the turning point for Ms. Samantha to show some kindness and generosity to her former student?

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    This happened about a week and a half ago, I was taking a walk in a small park that has a wooded area in and a few walking trails, I decided I wanted to take the shortest path as it was getting
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    late, about halfway through the path I saw a skunk in the middle of the path (and I am sure based on the title, most people already know where this is going). I
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    turned around and decided it was not worth it to proceed further, and approximately halfway was enough.
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    I exited the path the same way I entered and as I was entering I saw an old teacher of mine from High School, let's call her Ms. Samantha (not her real name).
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    Ms. Samantha was a teacher that went out of her way to nitpick everything I did in her class in high school (note it has been almost 12 years since I last saw her and 13 since I was in her class). Anyway with the
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    backstory aside, I went up to greet her and said "Hello, Ms. Samantha have you been-" "Hi, I'm trying to take my daily walk down shortest path, don't bother me." "I wouldn't-“
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    "You said Hello, this conversation is over until I get back from my walk, or you can walk with me and we can catch up. "I just want to warn-'
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    "This conversation is over for now, wait until I finish my walk and we can catch up, understand, JumpingCrowJoker24?"
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    At this point I think for a moment, I am not the type of person who would normally just let someone walk into a potential skunking,
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    but she was just r de to me twice and did nitpick everything I did in high school, so I chose to say nothing and just took a seat at the bench nearby.
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    "See, was that so hard? We don't need to be a know it all, that was your issue back as a student." And Ms. Samantha went down that path, as she did I whipped out my phone and tested my parents that I'd be heading back to my childhood home a bit late,
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    will help them with the dog later, but "eat dinner without me, I'll be here for a bit longer". One thing to take into account is that the entrance and exit for the shortest path we have exit parallel to each other the entrance is on one side of the bench I sat at and the other side
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    was the exit (in this case entrance behind, exit in front so family can wait on the bench and see their relatives exit). Normally I knew I'd see her on the way out
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    if she'd complete the whole route, but in this case I had a feeling I'd smell her coming out first, knowing her attitude. Sadly, my instincts were spot on, as | am on my phone playing a few games, I heard Ms. Samantha's voice vaguely in the background
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    and my thought at the time was "oh no, she ran into the skunk here we go". And I do not joke that just as I finished my thought I heard the sound of a Woman yell, maybe a scream I couldn't really make that out 100%, but
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    the wind was blowing my way so I was downwind of the path, the skunk and her so it wasn't long before I could smell what happened.
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    Ms. Samantha did eventually come out from the path's exit, and the smell she was omitting was awful, it reminded me a bit of raw horseradish getting peeled, as it was really eye watering. "UGH! Uh" she moaned.
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    "I tried to warn you about that skunk" "I figured it out when I got sprayed, you knew I'd react like that didn't you?"
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    I shrugged, "I wagered a guess, ya. By the way mind taking a few steps downwind? So it is easier to talk?"
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    After that she gave me her phone number and asked me to contact her when I planned to come back, she hoped it wouldn't be when she was still reeking in skunk odor, As I said at the beginning of
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    this tale it has been a week and a half, she still has some lingering skunk smell, I found out that up until that moment she was doing okay as well, but she also told me she got sprayed twice, when I asked her why she did not turn back after being sprayed the first
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    time she told me if she already got sprayed and was going to smell like skunk anyway she wanted to complete her walk.
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    A fun little anecdote is that after everything she admitted she was being petty and when I told her I still wanted to study the foreign language she taught and took some classes in college she told
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    me that if I ever wanted to practice to let her know and she'll do it without the pettiness this time. To be honest I think the
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    skunking humbled her quite a bit and hopefully she won't be forced to deal with residual linger odor much longer, but anyway thanks for reading!
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