Last Thursday night I really had trouble going to sleep. Every time I would get even close to a light doze our hooligan cats would start running around, jumping off of furniture hissing and snarling at each other. It was one of those rare occasions where I could not wait for morning to arrive.
Finally it was time to get up, my wife got up to take her shower after a moment I heard some sort of muted scream, seconds later she crawled back into bed. She looked at me and said, “I can’t deal with it, you have too.” With great trepidation and sinking heart I headed into the bathroom and found nothing out of the ordinary. I pulled back the shower curtain, evidently at some point during the night a full blown slaughter had taken place. The first thing I noticed was the mouse butt and back feet, the front of the mouse was missing. Over in the corner I found part of the head, under the shower seat there was another chunk, amongst the cat puke I noticed some other mouse parts.
I did manage to clean up the mess without puking, but I came awfully close, I did spend the next 2 hours in deep focused concentration reciting the mantra in my head, ‘do not throw up, do not throw up,’ For the next day and a half every time thought about the mouse parts I had to concentrate on not throwing up. Even now three days later I still feel a little nauseous in this retelling of the tale.
This is our prime suspect.
Saturday night we decided to pick up some pizza. We took the dog and as usual she jumped into the back of our SUV I leaned in the side door and secured her into the back. We do this so she does not become a projectile should we get into some sort of accident. Everything looking good I jumped behind the wheel and backed out of the garage. CRRUUNNCH! My wife and I look at each other, WTF?
Neither my wife nor I closed the back of the car. When the back hatch is up it won’t clear the lip of the garage door. While the hatch was bent out of shape, we could open and close it but the door simply would not stay shut. It took us half an hour to figure out how to secure the bloody door so we could still drive the car. The inside of the door is smooth as is the outside, no holes, no latches nothing to secure a rope too. Eventually we were able to pry the back panel up just enough to spot a hole on either side of the door, I fit a bungee cord into each hole and I hooked the other end onto the mounts for the child safety seat. Worked like a charm. Now of course we have the bother of sorting things out with the insurance company and having the door either replaced or fixed. Not sure if they can fix it, and they are no longer making Saturn’s so it should be interesting.
This evening we had some errands that we had to run. Once again I made sure the back of the car wouldn’t spring open and off we went. Upon arrival back home I unlocked the front door, and as I was pulling my key out of the lock the key somehow slipped off the key ring and fell through the less than the quarter inch gap in the boards of our deck.
My key is down there.
Mouse parts…. ugh. Ick. Yuck.
Sorry about the shower. And keys. And car. Not “sorry” like it was my fault, sorry that it happened to you, or anyone. Mouse parts… ick.
I can live with the key. It’s a problem and a nuisance but it’s get solved. I didn’t need the mouse in the shower. I have my own problems. I’m sorry about the door on the SUV. You probably want to kick yourself over that one. But it could be worse, Bob Little ran over his dog in his driveway. Many other like stories, Ronna pulling the front bumper of her right off by trying to climb one of those concrete stoppers in a parking lot. One other small thing and it will save me an email. The lease on my car is up, so we just made a deal on a new Ford Fusion. It’s fully loaded. Although it is physically smaller, (a good thing), the only luxury I am giving up is the moon roof. Not terrible as every time I open this one, Mommy closes it. The only time she allows it to open is when Jakie or Samantha ask. Did manage some new luxuries though. Satellite radio, bluetooth pairing through the radio, programable garage door opener built into the sun visor, and a 23% reduction in gas consumption. Oh yes, it comes with 5 years free maintenance. The only thing I will have to pay for is tires for 5 years. Everything else is covered including brakes. Maybe should have sent the email.
Oh my!
First, I love the picture of the culprit! It captures the “heh-heh” factor!
Second, I hope things go smoothly with your vehicle repair. Who doesn’t hate dealing with something like that?!?
Third, you’ve contributed an artifact to the earth with your key. It will go down in the soil and hundreds of years from now it will be found and be a source of excitement for the one finding it.
Fourth, they say things like this happen in 3’s. You guys should be good for a while!
Actually with a wire hanger and a long metal thing I found in the garage I managed to rescue the key.
I was going to say things happen in 3’s but Lois beat me to it! Have a happy and healthy New Year!
I’m getting on I guess. I just read this blog and I said to myself as I read it that I must have missed this one. Then I saw I commented on it. I can’t imagine that I don’t remember it at all.
I had to re read it myself. That was a horrible time. Can laugh now.