Last night, when I was so tired from my lack of sleep, I was looking forward to bedtime. David and Joe went to see Hangover, and I was home with Heather (age 21). It suddenly started to pour, and I quickly opened the door to let Bing the Cat in, and then I ran upstairs to close the windows.
As I was coming down the stairs, I saw a dead mouse in the hall. I assume Bing brought it in to proudly show us what he had been doing outside.
Me: (screaming) "HEATHER!!!"
Heather: "WHAT?"
Me: "There's a dead mouse in the front hall!!!"
Heather: "So what do you want me to do?"
Me: "KILL IT!"
Heather: "NO - you kill it!"
Me: "I can't."
I did venture a little closer to make sure it was dead. Today I was discussing with a co-worker whether it's better to find a dead mouse or a live mouse, and we agreed it would be better to find a dead one. I thought ok, maybe I can pick it up with an oven mitt. But that was just too gross for me to handle. So I moved the garbage can into the hall and got a broom and a dustpan.
Me: "HEATHER!"
Heather (annoyed): "WHAT?"
Me: "Come and help me."
Amazingly, Heather appeared. I handed her the dust pan.
Heather: "You're giving me a dustpan?"
Me: "yes. I'll sweep it in and you hold the dustpan."
Amazingly, she took the dust pan. I took that broom and swung like it was a golf club. We both screamed. It landed in the dust pan.
Me: "Throw it in the trash!"
She did.
Me: "Help me close the trash."
She did.
I grabbed the trash bag, screamed, and ran outside with it.
We are such wusses.
5 comments:
OMG I was totally LOL!!!!!!!! That would TOTALLY be me and my DD!!! You are not wussess! That is totally yucky!!! LOL!!
Oh, my - that is so funny! Reminded me of all the times our cat did that...and sometimes brought just 'part' of the mouse...shudder!
Thanks for the laugh!
You are indeed wusses!
Ha! I love it -- "There's a dead mouse! Kill it!"
The Gyp cheerfully brought me a mouse I thought was dead at the lake last summer. "Drop it," I said (and the cat that doesn't do much by command miraculously obeyed. The mouse ran and we were on a chase, finally nailing it in a corner under a wastebasket, which I walked about three blocks away to dump in the woods!
I wish you could get rid of my giant ants and kitchen moths...
Funny. I like how the first instinct at the arrival of a Dead mouse is to kill it(!)
I found a dead mouse this morning and now is my first night sleeping with the thought of mice crawling around my apt.....
But now I wonder - why was it dead in the middle of my room??? what happened? did it eat some of my food and just keel over? uh oh.
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