Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Mouse story Part II
I come home from work and I carefully tread my way upstairs. 1st mouse trap check: nothing 2nd mouse trap check--the one I reset this morning--: there lies MR. MOUSE! I peer over the chair to look because I thought one might be there. I saw it flipped over and knew I’d caught one. “Well, I can’t leave it here ‘til Dad gets back because Sadie and Tiger will be up here before then and I don’t want them to get it.” –more thinking-- "Uh oh..that means I have to clean it up."
Utterly grossed out I searched for some rubber gloves. FOUND SOME! They had been used to clean out Bunny's cage. But Bunny found a new home..so, “Yes I'll use these.”
I put them on...feeling pebbles and little pieces of something in the gloves, but trying to ignore and not think about what they might be. I search around my bedroom for a plastic bag, "There's got to be one somewhere!" No, so onto the next room. “AH-HAH!” I found a big trash bag that someone started to fill and then neglected. I grab the bag and make my way over to the SOTC (scene of the crime). Moving boxes and papers 6 inches away from the "zone", I notice that when the trap flipped, it made the mouse protrude a few centimeters off the paper towel. "Gross, he's touching my floor."
I analyze the situation, trying to figure out how to dispose of this thing without having to really look at it or touch it. "It's near impossible," I think to myself.
So, I go in for the kill..WAIT, he's already dead hah! Ever so carefully, I pick up 2 opposite corners of the paper towel so that it makes like a pocket thing for the mouse + trap. As I maneuver the trap, his tail brushes the wall. “Noo!! Now I have mouse germs on my wall!!!” I set it down to get a better grip, so he doesn't drop out of the paper towel completely--because that! could potentially cause a rumble in my stomach. One more try and PLOP! he's in the bag! Quickly, I pull the bag's drawstrings so I don’t have to look at it again (however, I did pause and give him a moment of silence to see how exactly the he had been trapped). Out to the trash barrel I go. Back inside the house, I'm cool and confident. I grab another mouse trap, "This time I'll set it myself." I place it in the same position where I found Mr. Mouse this afternoon. And THAT, is my mouse tail. (HA!)
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4 comments:
HIP! HIP! HURRAY!!! You go girl!
Her's a BIG girl, now!
Paper towel? You are way too clean. But I'm proud of you for taking ahold of the situation all by your little self. Good job!
BC
You go girl! My little Mirm is growing up...awww (tear). I am so proud of you. I would have just called Denny, so you are so much stronger than I. Sleep peaceful and mice free!!!
Miriam,
Don't EVER change! You are too funny! I hope there were no more mouse tails to see! We have moved out to the country and by a corn field. I figure we will be seeing/hearing/whatever the little darlings soon too. I can hardly wait! Since we now live by a corn field, if I need a trap set...can I call you!?!
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