I worked at a Debajis back in the day ... man there was a mouse problem that would freak you out. My four most memorable stories are:
1. Putting a watermelon out on a table and for some strange reason giving one a second look. In the back of it was a mouse sized hole filled with mouse feces. Not sure why I gave that watermelon a second look. To this day not a big fan of watermelon.
2. The bakery would always get giant pails of butter delivered to them. Once we found one that had a complex Viet Cong-like tunnel system dug out of it with a fat mouse living inside. I assume he was the leader.
3. We played "moustrap price is right" one day. The object of the game was to guess the number of dead mice in the traps around the store - whoever guessed closest without going over won. If I recall I was the winner with 19.
4. One day a mouse decided that he had enough of this world and decided to pass into the other. Legend has it that it was the butter tunnel mouse who'd reached the peak of living and couldn't stand the fact that he'd achieved perfection and had nothing to work towards. We also had a cafe waitress that could have been considered the most skittish and jumpy of all the workers. For whatever reason the mouse picked her to be the only witness to his recital of the macabre. He jumped off the highest ledge in the back room and did a faceplant into the concrete not 3 feet from her. I thought she was going to piss herself. It was a brilliant way to go.
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