Thursday, June 4, 2009

Three Dead (and currently blind) Mice

So today I cleaned out the lab... way fun.  I threw out a lot of shit and was moving / sweeping things and then I turn around and all of the sudden there is a dead mouse in the middle of the lab floor.  I guess most people would not be as terrified as I was; however, I have a slight (big) phobia of mice...  

Many many years ago I went hunting with my dad (yes I go hunting, well use to) and we stayed in this trailer that hadn't been inhabited in a while, and it was literally filled with mice.  I slept on the couch and you could hear them crawling all over and in the kitchen.  It was disgusting; we killed like a dozen mice in one day.  That's when I think the phobia started.  Now I can hardly look at them without freaking out and running away.

Thus, the mouse in the lab was quite horrible, not to mention the obscene amounts of mouse shit I was cleaning off every surface...  So I mustered the courage to remove the mouse (after calling Dror to bitch), and threw him into the bush.  Then, I continued to clean.  100 lysol wipes later I look down and what's right by my foot but another dead mouse!  Fuck!  These things are appearing everywhere.  I scream, jump back and then am just pissed because this is silly, two dead mice just appearing out of nowhere.  I shovel this one up and throw it away.  Cleaning continued for a few more hours...

Now for the third... I went for a run and on the last stretch back I look down and... yes another dead mouse that I most trip over.  Thankfully I was in the zone and kept on.


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