Monday, July 19, 2004

Little Brown Mice
 
Jessi, here's another interesting story for you...
Alright so, we've been having a bit of a mouse problem at the youth centre that I'm working at. The little jerks entirely ate a package of oriental noodles, and ruined a perfectly bag of chips, besides leaving their excrements all over the place (disgusting!). I set out traps with cheese and they were talented enough to eat the cheese without setting off the trap (and were probably thanking me to be gracious enought to leave food out for them).
Anyhow I was sitting in the office with two girls chatting it up, this little brown mouse came crawling out from behind a door! Of course I chased the rodent and it ran behind a whiteboard propped up against the wall and got pinched there. So I took a glass, and got the girls to bang on the wall on the other side of the mouse so as to scare it my way and managed to catch this little mouse.
Of course once I had caught the mouse I wasn't sure exactly what to do with it, so while we were getting expert advice we watched the mouse clamber around in my large A&W mug and despite it's annoying habits, it struck me as quite cute.  So I realeased my prisoner outside into the wilderness that is a town. I actually let him go in some think grass and bushes... maybe he won't find his way back to my office...