That could've sucked

I just walked in the door, and was changing clothes in my bedroom. I heard a sort of scuffling sound outside my window. Its a narrow little space of not more than a foot and a half between the wall on this side of the apartment and the neighbor's fence, but the noise was clearly coming from there. I heard a distinct scuffling sound, but I couldn't tell if it was a person, animal, or what... I squinted out my window to try and see, but the reflection from my ceiling light blocked me from seeing into the dark outside. I kept hearing the noise and was pretty convinced that it was just a rat or something.. maybe a possum. I was just about to make a big noise and try and startle whatever was out there and scare it away then it shuffled into an area I could see. I saw a black animal with two white stripes and a big fluffy tail. Skunk! I was just moments away from leaning out the window to try and scare it, which could've been a disaster. I closed the window and wrote this post instead.