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Rat carcass in alley this evening. Tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

Sad when you almost step in vermin, and the first panel of Watchmen is the thing that leaps to mind. At least I didn't skid in it, like once before.

Current Location: Chicago, IL
Current Music: Two Gallants, "Seems Like Home to Me"

You always wondered what really goes into Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell food, right?

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Location: New York, NY
Current Music: Chick Corea Quartet, "Terrain"

So, we came back late Sunday night from a weekend away to find another mouse snared by one of our traps.

( Ew, that's disgusting! )

Surely there can't have been more than five mice in the house. Right?

Current Mood: disgusted
Current Music: The White Stripes, "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine"

I'm just sayin'.

Current Music: Ween, "Israel"

Okay, for everyone who thought they did indeed want to see the flattened mouse, here you go. I guess it really isn't as flat as all that, but it's certainly flatter than a mouse should be.

(There's a little blood in the picture, just so you know.)

Current Music: Chuck Mangione, "Chase the Clouds Away"

The other night, Laura and I were startled by screaming and running sounds from the apartment upstairs. I was up to my elbows in cleaning, so Laura investigated. Turns out the three roommates up there had spotted a mouse. And had named it Ernest.

When our landlord started renovating the apartment upstairs (and he's still not finished), the cockroaches moved downstairs to ours. Just as we were getting them under control, the mice showed up. We killed one mouse within an hour of laying out our first traps. It took a couple of weeks more, plus a long trip out of town, to kill our second. We've spotted other mice at various times, and Ella has even chased one to ground beneath the oven.

( The gruesome murder )

Current Mood: murderous
Current Music: The Hues Corporation, "Rock the Boat"

When you get back from a trip, check the mousetraps immediately. Don't wait a couple of days.

I waited a couple of days. One of the mousetraps, way back underneath a large piece of furniture, was, ahem, occupied. It had flipped over in the process of snapping, and said occupant was, er, stuck to the floor.

Let's just say that disposing of that little installation and cleaning up after it was not the most fun I've had in recent memory.

Well, at least we didn't have a roach bomb explode on us, like some of our fellow Astorians apparently did.

Current Mood: grossed out
Current Music: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

They say that stepping in dogshit first thing in the morning is good luck, right? Please tell me that's what they say.

Oh, well, I guess it wasn't as bad as the day in November when I was carrying Laura's brother's suitcase out to the cab in the street and I stepped—and slid—in the dead rat.

Gotta love New York.

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: Medeski Martin & Wood, "We Are Rolling"

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Inhuman Swill

Entries tagged with vermin

But it's only aesthetical in a comic book

Aw, rats!

Humans 5, Mice ?

Humans 4, Mice ?

Give the people what they want

Humans 3, Mice ?

More useful travel hints

I spent fifteen minutes in the men's room cleaning it out of my tread

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