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.
Oh shat, I laughed hysterically at this.
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I was in Safeway Southcenter a couple weeks ago and they were having bird bonanza that day. Seems a sparrow thought it was a good day to shop. It was quite amusing watching a couple girls try to catch it every time it landed. At the rate they were going I'm sure that bird's still in the store.
I worked at Safeway fro about 6 years and my wife worked there about 8 years. We were talking and neither one of us ever saw a mouse, maybe the odd bird. The best was when the store manager had his son come in with a BB gun to shoot a bird. DURING BUSINESS HOURS!!!! Can't remember if he got fired or was handed a extended (probably paid) holiday. Had to love working at Safeway back in the day.
I have one of these bass-tards in my apartment right now. First one after almost 8 years here. I bought one of those electric traps yesterday, no luck yet. Makes my skin crawl thinking that POS is in here somewhere.
I have one of these bass-tards in my apartment right now. First one after almost 8 years here. I bought one of those electric traps yesterday, no luck yet. Makes my skin crawl thinking that POS is in here somewhere.
I'll lend you my cat, she'll have that thing in less than 12 hours, guaranteed.
I delivered Old Dutch Chips for a few summers and one of the stores we went into every bag we picked up deflated.. with little tiny jigsaw puzzle like holes in the bottom.
Every single bag, we ended up throwing out around 100 or so, then we went to the basement to grab the few boxes left and had a mouse jump out as I kicked it.. those bags were significantly worse off than the ones on the floor.
Lesson here: Mice love chips! Easy access and they can smell that grease a mile away. Solution? Well for this Oriental Corner Store a few mouse traps could deal with the family... but for Superstore, with a very large area to cover, such a great number of mice that may or may not voltron when threatened.. that sounds like a Lion o'problem.. you would need something with a little more... rumble, perhaps? Maybe they need to get a glove, on the problem? Perhaps the Staff, should be consulted?
They could really, whip, things into shape that way?
Numbchucks.
Liono the mice are headed for the bakery, snarf! Snarf!
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I have another mouse story, but be warned I am issuing a possible tasteless alert ...
My buddy has been an EMT for a few years. During his first week a few years ago the paramedics started noticing that every call he went to the unfortunate victim ended up dying. As folks in the field tend to develop a dark sense of humour to deal with the realities of the job, he was lovingly given the nickname "the reaper".
One night he went to the scene of a drunk driver who had decided to wrap himself around a tree with very obvious results. They put the body on a gurney, covered it and placed it on a tire in the ditch to keep it out of the way. As my friend is walking by the tire, a mouse runs out from it and scurries up his leg. Of course, given that my friend was focused on his streak of dead people, he naturally assumed that the dead man had fully zombified and decided to reach out and grab his ankle.
According to various paramedic sources, his reaction was among the most legendary they had ever seen.
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I have one of these bass-tards in my apartment right now. First one after almost 8 years here. I bought one of those electric traps yesterday, no luck yet. Makes my skin crawl thinking that POS is in here somewhere.
We get them in our current house as we are near the river valley.
Best tool to get rid of them is the old school wood mouse traps baited with peanut butter. the peanut butter is sticky which gets them fooling around on the trap until whammo.
Those electric ones work, but not nearly as effective as the old school traps.
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Squishing some process cheese into the wood traps works well too.
Another good trap, but more for outside or garage application (or even the warehouse side of Superstore) is a 5 gallon pale 1/3 full of water. You tie a wire from edge to edge across the top of the pale and run the wire length wise through a pop can so the can rotates on the wire. Coat the can with a layer of bacon grease. Lastly, put a stick up against the pale so the mouse has a nice runway up to the top. The mouse tight rope walks the wire, jumps on the tasty can, which spins the mouse off into the water. The mouse cant scale the side of the bucket and then drowns.
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I have one of these bass-tards in my apartment right now. First one after almost 8 years here. I bought one of those electric traps yesterday, no luck yet. Makes my skin crawl thinking that POS is in here somewhere.
I had one get in between the walls of my spare bedroom in the basement. Not sure how it got in there as there was no holes in the wall. Anyway this was during last summer when i was sleeping downstairs as it's cooler. I woke up to the familiar scratching sound a mouse makes. All you could hear was the constant sratching. Of course i freaked out and started looking until i figured it where it was. After 2 days i heard nothing and assumed it died
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I worked at Safeway fro about 6 years and my wife worked there about 8 years. We were talking and neither one of us ever saw a mouse, maybe the odd bird. The best was when the store manager had his son come in with a BB gun to shoot a bird. DURING BUSINESS HOURS!!!! Can't remember if he got fired or was handed a extended (probably paid) holiday. Had to love working at Safeway back in the day.
For every 5 you see there is probably 100 that you don't see. A good pest control regime should eliminate all but a few of the mice. I know most stores have pest control visits regularily. When I worked at Futureshop we had pest control there once a month, sprayed the exterior and set out traps. We never had an issue, mostly preventative. I don't know about Superstore.
Isn't that the truth. I had 'one' in my house last year. A week and 9 wood snap-traps later, they were all gone.
Also, I'm very afraid of mice (apparently this is the most common phobia in the world - I hope so, because being afraid of a tiny mouse makes me feel like a major wuss). Perhaps it's not the mouse that's scary, as I think the unpredictability of them combined with the surprise factor are the scary part.
Yup, scares the shat outta me. A few years ago, I was pissing around on the internet at 3am and I see something at the corner of my eye twitch. Take a peak, there is a mouse 1 feet from my hand. I pretty much freaked. Now I'm normally ok with spiders and bugs, but mice creep the hell out of me.
Another story - I was in Cambodia last year, get to my hotel room, and there is some lizard lying on my bed. (Don't know what its called). It scrambles up to the corner of the ceiling in my room and sets up camp there. I was nervous as hell, but I was in Cambodia and there probably wasn't much the hotel staff could do to get rid of it. So, I nervously and eventually fell asleep with this reptile hanging just above my head.
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