2013-07-11, 09:35 PM
This story has a sad ending.
I was just waking up from my evening slumber when I felt something in my hair. I brushed it away, and I noticed a big black object leap off of my bed and down on the floor next to my nightstand.
I jolted out of bed. "Jesus Christ what is that!?" My poor vision blurred the black object about the size of my fist as it rocketed across the carpet out of my bedroom. Was that a centipede? Spider?
Carefully standing up, I put on my glasses and tiptoed out of my bedroom and into the dining room of my apartment. I peered into every nook and cranny I could think of until I could get to the lightswitch. I flicked it on.
A black thing was coming right toward me and my feet. I shrieked and jumped back. It skittered back into the shadows. I thought about going for the flashlight, but I didn't want to risk getting surprised again. So since this thing - whatever it was - didn't seem nearly as afraid of me as I was of it, I just stood in stone silence and waited for The Black Thing to show its head again.
Then I saw the black thing come out of the darkness. It was about the size of my fist, as I recalled. It was fluffy with four legs and a scrawny tail. "Oh, it's just a cute little mouse!" My eyes followed him as he started going, literally, around the room. He climbed up the moulding - he went under my refrigerator, but he always circumnavigated the room. It appeared he was looking for food.
But how do I get him out of here? I could tell my landlord, but then he'd just setup mousetraps and kill the bugger. I don't want him to die. I just want him to leave. I opened my front door and began closing off the other doors to my apartment - slowly sectioning him off. Eventually I stomped on the floor and chased him out of my apartment..
There. Now I don't have to deal with a mouse in my apartment while I'm at work.
About fifteen minutes later I exited my apartment and walked through the gravel walkway to my car, and then I saw him. There was a small furball with four legs and a scrawny tail - squished.
R.I.P. Mouse. You will be missed. I should have given you some cheese.
I was just waking up from my evening slumber when I felt something in my hair. I brushed it away, and I noticed a big black object leap off of my bed and down on the floor next to my nightstand.
I jolted out of bed. "Jesus Christ what is that!?" My poor vision blurred the black object about the size of my fist as it rocketed across the carpet out of my bedroom. Was that a centipede? Spider?
Carefully standing up, I put on my glasses and tiptoed out of my bedroom and into the dining room of my apartment. I peered into every nook and cranny I could think of until I could get to the lightswitch. I flicked it on.
A black thing was coming right toward me and my feet. I shrieked and jumped back. It skittered back into the shadows. I thought about going for the flashlight, but I didn't want to risk getting surprised again. So since this thing - whatever it was - didn't seem nearly as afraid of me as I was of it, I just stood in stone silence and waited for The Black Thing to show its head again.
Then I saw the black thing come out of the darkness. It was about the size of my fist, as I recalled. It was fluffy with four legs and a scrawny tail. "Oh, it's just a cute little mouse!" My eyes followed him as he started going, literally, around the room. He climbed up the moulding - he went under my refrigerator, but he always circumnavigated the room. It appeared he was looking for food.
But how do I get him out of here? I could tell my landlord, but then he'd just setup mousetraps and kill the bugger. I don't want him to die. I just want him to leave. I opened my front door and began closing off the other doors to my apartment - slowly sectioning him off. Eventually I stomped on the floor and chased him out of my apartment..
There. Now I don't have to deal with a mouse in my apartment while I'm at work.
About fifteen minutes later I exited my apartment and walked through the gravel walkway to my car, and then I saw him. There was a small furball with four legs and a scrawny tail - squished.
R.I.P. Mouse. You will be missed. I should have given you some cheese.