Modern City Living 

When you decide to have a couple of beers with your wife on the deck, to chat and watch the moon play hide and seek in the clouds, neighbourhood skunk will come around and let you know that it is time to go in. It’s probably true in the country as well.

 Fortunately it was just a gentle reminder, not an odoriferous assertion, on the part of the skunk.

You might say that the beer almost went skunky. Or the skunk almost went beery.