the mouse in my house...

ok i dunno if you all remember reading that book...when i was younger i loved it...until it happened to me...i realized as i was reading becky's bat story that i had my own vermin tale to tell...while it wasnt a bat it was still vermin and what made me remember it was becky being on the phone in hysterics late late at night.
ok so way back (ok three years ago) i lived in midtown in kansas city missouri (like 34th and armour) yeah i know how i got out of there in one piece with all my stuff i will never know but it was wonderful being there with the police helicopters and search lights that would pop up at night...yeah...anyhoo i lived in a converted house where my apartment was the first floor, it was an older house and so due to it settling there were small gaps around the doors. i never really thought too much about it until one night i heard one of what seemed like two hundred thousand stray cats in the neighborhood cryout and then heard this thump on my door. (side note my back door led straight into my bedroom and there was no screen just one door). so i hear this god awful cat noise something even worse than when they are in heat and then this terrible thump on my door...well other than freaking out a bit i thought nothing more of it until i was sitting at my computer one evening and i see this little brown/gray bump scurry across the baseboard and to my dismay it dives under my couch...now at this time im thinking its just cause its late im just seeing things...but no that bump had a tail and pink feet...oh my god!...*shudder* still gives me the heebie geebies, i wasnt scared just flustered. well next time i see my landlord i mentioned it especially since i noticed holes being chewed in bags and etc and so forth, so i went out and bought for the first time in my life mouse traps...well i guess i shouldnt call them mouse traps cause they didnt catch any mice, they were glue traps and all they caught were some *whoooo* sorry spiders...i hate spiders....bleh! so my traps caught nothing and unbeknownst to me my landlord put out bait. well couple days later im heading towards the bathroom only to see this little lump on the kitchen floor...which made me stop and look...it was the mouse...sitting in the middle of my kitchen floor not moving, just shaking a bit...now mind you its 2am or so by this time so i start calling all my friends first...cause i dunno what to do and when i couldnt get a hold of any of them i finally got up enough nerve to put a tupperware container over the top of the mouse...to which he didnt move at all...thats when i realized he was sick...from the bait...so i give up and call my parents...now in hysterics because i didnt want to kill the mouse but i couldnt go to sleep with it sitting in my kitchen and no one else would answer the phone, i finally got my parents to which once telling my mom she freaks out (she hates mice) and then once telling my dad thru tears how traumatized i was he yells at me to just put it outside to which i cry but that will kill it! he yelled back that it was probably going to die anyway and so did i want it to die in my kitchen or die outside...im not sure ive ever been though a more traumatic ordeal...i finally had to carefully scoop up the mouse with the lid...the one and only time he decided to jump...which of course scared the living shit out of me...how i managed to not drop the whole thing i dunno...then i had to force myself to put the little guy (yeah he was really quite little) in the trash can and leave him there...and did i mention it was below freezing out there? man oh man what a night! and i just cried and cried cause he was sick from the poison but i felt guilty about that cause he was just trying to live and then i had to go and garuntee him death by putting him outside...poor thing i checked on him the next day which was kinda funny cause i siddled up to the trash can and then kinda poked at the tupperware container and jumped away just in case it started to move...but unfortunately it didnt...and then i cried somemore. yeah i dont ever want to have to go through that again. it was terrible cause he was so cute and little and literally looked like the mouse in the book the mouse in my house
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