Last night, I slept with a mouse by my side. I don’t own a pet rodent, so it was quite shocking when I heard faint scratching and squeaking coming from a roll of posters beside my bed. As I peered down the vertical tube of Audi posters, I discovered my little friend. He was doing everything within his power to get out of that prison, but to no avail.
At that moment, I was left with a decision. I could spend the effort to eradicate the rodent, but I was tired and could not think of a quick and easy way to exterminate the critter. So, with the rest of the house in bed, I simply put a book on top of the posters and went to sleep. I was comfortable going to bed with a mouse a mere 12 inches away from my head because he was trapped. So I proceeded to fall asleep.
But because he was trapped, he spent the night trying to get out, which means he continued to make noise. He woke me up several times by his squeaking and scratching. Finally, in the morning, I took a small paper plate, slid it under the posters and took him outside where we let him go, only to have him start darting for the house. Then we cornered him and I grabbed his little tail and flailed him over the fence. He flew with all legs outstretched in Stuart Little style to his new home on the other side of the fence.
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Haha - this is a great post. I could totally see the mouse flying over the fence.
Did he have Michael J. Fox’s voice?
I was down for a wedding last week, and my friend let me stay with her for a night in Slight. I told her, “Don’t worry about getting me sheets. I can totally sleep on the floor.” But she objected, stating that there were deeply offensive intruders that she didn’t want me to encounter there–mice included.
I do love Slight, but there has been several mice sightings. The first time we encountered one was early in the morning as Ian was bobbing in and out of sleep at his desk. He then bolted awake and claimed he saw a mouse. To which our roommate told him he was just seeing things. But Ian was convinced, which was later confirmed.
I did recently see pictures of a friend of mine holding a mouse that ran across her lap in her rental car!!! She threw it out the window and went back to get a different car.
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