As of tonight...this is HOPEFULLY the only kind of mouse still in my house.
But the conclusion of the matter came with a bit of comedy of its own, so I thought I'd share it with you.
I asked our secretary if she would be kind enough to serve on mouse disposal duty today, and she agreed. Eagerly, even. Bless her heart.
She came home with me on my lunch hour and went right to work finding Mr. Mouse. I stepped out of the room...it seemed best...and in five minutes flat, she had removed the mouse from the house AND the trap, cleaned everything out from under my kitchen sink, cleaned up all remnants of mouse visitation, thrown away a few things I didn't even know were there, wrapped the base of the plumbing with aluminum foil (the suspected entry point....and a method to stop it), replaced everything and reset the trap. Five minutes.
Just as she finished up, my doorbell rang, so I went to check on that. It was some guy selling meat products out of a truck. And by this, I don't mean the Schwan man. I mean a pickup truck and a copy paper menu. As I stood there stammering around for a decent response, she came gliding gracefully up behind me and cheerfully said, "Oh I'm SO sorry but we're vegetarians in this house! We wouldn't dream of eating meat or killing animals." That man went slinking back to his truck and I stood there laughing and shaking my head...
...and I reached out to sign for the package the FedEx man brought to me. What in the world! The house is usually so quiet and in the span of ten minutes I had the Mouse Removal Lady, the Meat Out of A Truck Man and the FedEx man. Welcome to grand central station!
And now...it is time for me to make a batch of peanut butter fudge in extreme appreciation for her work.
4 comments:
Jonathan volunteers to empty your traps in the future . . . he heard there was fudge involved! :)
Well where was Jonathan on my lunch hour today when Mickey Junior showed up in the trap?
Wow, meat from a truck stops at your house?
All we get are Jehovah's Witnesses and pushy vacuum salespeople.
I'm jealous...(not really). Love the vegetarian line though. Wish that worked on Jehovah's Witnesses.
That's the first time he's stopped.
We have had some Jehovah's Witnesses lately and I noticed they stayed a while at my neighbor's house one day. He's a pastor. I bet he was a great one to talk to!
I think I have had the vacuum people before too. WHY OH WHY do there have to be such visits??
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