Mouse in the House

OK people....I just don't know how to say this, but ewww!

You know that in lovely Jacksonville NC roaches are a part of life. I thought that the thing I've been seeing out the corner of my eye for the last little while (and only a few times) was a stinkin' big brown roach the size of an El Camino. I figured, fine, you got past the insecticide barricade because you are a big mama Jamma and were able to pass across unscathed, but you will soon succumb to it and be out of my life. That's called cum-uppance. It happens to the best of us. But as I was sitting on the chair in the living room today talking to Ben, the darn thing came from down the hallway and ran under the entertainment center and the behind a bookshelf. As I sat there in disbelief, knowing that roaches don't have long tails and big ears (ewww), I started recalling many things that have been going on around the house. For instance, the other night while I was reading in bed, I heard something behind the dresser. Again, I thought to myself, that is one big dag on cockroach. Naturally Ben had fallen asleep in 2.2 seconds and didn't hear it, so I smacked him and told him told him there was something in the room. He just sat there and looked at me and said "OK, I can't tell whether I'm dreaming or not". At that point I knew he wasn't going to be any help to me and told him to forget it and go back to bed, thinking that if it was a huge roach and it came flying through the air that it would get him first...like I said, everybody gets theirs. Another day, I was reading and I heard squeaking in the walls....All I thought was, man, I really need to get some sleep. Anyway, to make a long story longer, I went out and bought some sticky traps by order of Ben. I told him that the poor thing was going to be stuck there squeaking at me if it did get caught and if he was at work what the heck was I supposed to do with it. Of course, Ben just said pick it up and take it outside....what??? I'm not touching it. I'll just leave the house...I can go shopping for 8 hours....I will find something to do, but I won't stay in the house with it. Ben of course said that he'd take care of it, he'd taken care of getting rid of a lot of rats in Iraq. When I asked how many all he said was 'enough'. Yeah, I don't want to think about it either. So there you go folks, just when you though roaches were enough to deal with....you get mice. And another thing!!!!!! did you know that they can squeeze through an opening that is only 1/4 inch wide???? EEWWWWWW!!!