Great story Dame! Would have freaked me out as well. As long as we are all telling spooky [insert small/furry/mostly harmless/slimy/scary animal here] invasion stories, I'll jump on for one. I tend to be long winded, so I apologize if I bore you.
Back in June of '04 we were moving into our first house from a small apartment. We also had one of those "secured" storage units. In said storage unit was a few double bagged black trash bags full of my ex's old stuffed animals from her childhood. The bags were hoisted high on top of a very large piece of furniture, so that certain critters would stay out, oh yeah, did I tell you that I tied the bags
tight so nothing could get in
cratch:.
now that i think back on that i should have been given some kind of an idiot award. So all of us are helping to empty our storage unit when some "friend" of mine thought that it would be a good idea to tell me that there are holes in the bags, "looks like mice got in", he said. Now that I have firmly planted in my head, "I can't bring mice in the house, let alone all the terds in the bag", so what do I do when were unloading the U-haul at the new house? I put them in the
basement. Of course!
cratch:
Fast forward a week or two (forgot about the bags by now):
Wife: Honey, what are all those little black things on the kitchen floor?
Me: Hmmm...dunno, kinda looks like little pieces of dirt, but why are they only located near the stove and by the wall?
Wife: Do you think its mice?
Me: Nawww, its summertime out and its warm, mice want to be outdoors right?
Wife: Don't you think it could be? Those garbage bags are still in the basement
Me: Yeah, but we don't know if there were...wait a minute...Oh Sh*t! You're right.
So I grag the two bags, bring them upstairs and I notice that only one of the bags has holes in it. It went right to the garage and into a trash can, did not even look at it. I could only imagine all the poo all over Donald Duck and My Little Pony. The other bag looked untouched, I did tie it
tight remember? So there it sat at the top of the stairs, problem solved. Now, mice are on the brain. I'm panicking like a pansy. Still have no physical evidence of any mice, besides little dirt balls on the kitchen floor.
Around 3 am, I am quiety and gently awakened by a light scratching on the tip of my thumb. "Why am I scratching my thumb?", I thought. As I became more awake, I realized that I was not scratching my thumb. My wife was sound asleep. I lay there motionless, trying to figure out what the hell was doing that. Then my subconscious reminded me about the mice, so my conscious reacted by twitching my hand as fast as it could to "catch" whatever it was. All I was able to feel was this tiny furry thing run out from under my hand and off the bed.
It was on after that.
Me and my ex spent the next 2.5 hours searching all of our rooms for that damned thing. The little fu*ker managed to go into the one room that was not unpacked yet. No lights hooked up in the room, just a flashlight with weak batteries. I managed to barricade the little helpless field mouse into a corner by using boxes to create a wall(man those fu*kers are fast!). Slowly I moved the barricade closer and closer to the wall to tighen the space so I could grab him, but he disappeared. Turns out I broke its neck when I was sliding a box closer to the wall and I pinched him between the box and wall. As I was being admonished for killing a cute little mouse, I spotted another one. To catch this one I crumbled up a cracker and put a little trail from his hiding spot to the middle of the room so I could throw a small trash can over its head. Success! Took him outside and let him go by some brush next to my garage.
In the next 6 months, we caught 2 more. One we murdered by a peanut butter laden mouse trap and the other I took outside and threw a hail mary in the street, but I felt so bad. I killed a cute and fuzzy mouse. I went to the penalty box and felt shame. Got over it real quick.
Now I'm hopefully mouse free.
Oh yeah, the other bag got tossed as well. Probably could've got some nice money for some of those toys on eBay. :wink:
