After getting a shower and getting dressed, Myrtle was meowing incessantly outside the bathroom door. I opened it and she came in..... then meowed again to get back out. As soon as she exited, a little mouse came around the corner into the bathroom -- I've had an experience with a mouse before.
So I quickly closed the door, and little mouse hid against the bathtub under the draping of the shower curtain.
I pull the shower curtain into the tub to reveal his hiding spot. looking for a tool or device of sorts to capture it. It runs behind the toilet - I toss the towel. It runs behind the toilet paper holder - I move it.
There are no more hiding spaces, and it is clearly to frightened to try and squeeze under the door. 210 pounds vs. an ounce - who will win?
This next bit is not for the faint of heart ...... I'm still trembling a little from the adrenaline rush.
I toss the towel over it and try to apply some sudden pressure (knocking the towel against the floor - by now I'm on my knees). It escapes. Could I have another 'super mouse' on my hands?
I toss the towel again, this time capturing it (and my underwear) within the towel's grasp. Again I apply sudden pressure. Rather than take chances, I open the towel over the toilet.
210 pounds wins.
Little mouse had met its demise in my bathroom, and was buried at sea, so t speak.
Now to go back to preparing for a big day at work.
4 comments:
Just one small detail...was your underwear buried at sea too?
Shuddering - what a way to start the day. It's not like you guys have a huge bathroom! I don't think I could have done it.
i KNOW i could not have done it.
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hey my word verificatioin for this comment is JETTA ... do you think that's a sign that I am going to win one? :)
As I told you before, where's there is one mouse there more 'mouses' in the houses- take it from a ole farm boy, that an expontential principle is at work here where 1 plus 1 does not equal two. You have an equation like the following. Firstly you have an XX where XX is a female mouse and XY is male mouse to the power of L which is God's law of procreation or the "love factor" as it is known in less informed circles. You have something like this: L(XY + XX) = XyXX Squared. Now in 6 weeks you take that XyXX squared, factor in L and suddenly you have XXXXXXXXyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXyXXXXXX
XyXXXyXXXyXYYyYYYYYXYXYXYXYXYXY
XYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYyXYXYXYXYXXYX
YXYXYXYyXYXYyXYXYXXYXYXyYXYXYXYX
YXYXYXYXYXYXYXXYXYXYXYXYXyYXYXYX
YXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYYYXXXXXXXX
Congradulations you have generation 2 and in six weeks more -- well, good luck with that! Your going to need more than underwear --
...... the towel and underwear got the pleasure of an extra long wash cycle......
and today I was able to swap mouse stories with someone else being taunted by a mouse at their parents house, where he is housesitting. He's going to try my trap (mop handle, bucket, peanut butter) as his other traps have failed.
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