May 17, 2007
first the frog, now this
Actual e-mail from my friend Rebecca:
There’s a rat living under our house that’s been getting into my rose pot EVERY NIGHT and I have to put all the soil back and clean up the mess with a broom for like 2 weeks. How do I KNOW it’s a rat you might ask? Because tonight after turning off “Idol” I decided to open the back door and take a look and I see something in the pot. So, like an idiot I ask what’s that and start to walk toward the small creature in the pot only to discover it’s a rat (about 10 feet away at this point, but he was very fat) and then he starts running AT ME at which point I scream and run in the house. Tom asks what it was as he walks back outside leaving the door OPEN at which point I start screaming again IT’S A RAT CLOSE THE DOOR IT’S GOING TO COME IN at which point the rat starts running at HIM! This is a very bold rat. He’s now under the house and this is why I’m not happy we have crawl space and why even though it’s 10:45p.m. I’m not going to be sleeping anytime soon.
I read this first thing this morning, before I showered or had coffee, and I couldn’t decide if I should laugh or scream. And then Rebecca called me later in the morning and the first thing I said was “OH MY GOD THAT RAT!!! AAAAAAA!!!”
We’re sophisticated grown-ups that way.
We’re planning a girls’ weekend in California in the fall, Rebecca and Krista and Christa and me, and today Rebecca said that we could either stay at her house or in a hotel. I think I will need to see pictures of the rat before I make my decision, though. If it’s anything like the frog, I’ll be staying in a hotel.
Nature. Eeeew.
Edited to add: How could I forget THIS? On the phone, Rebecca asked how I felt about animals; what she wanted to know was would I be interested in going horseback riding while we were in Cali. But all I could think was I AM OPPOSED TO RATS . . . and large frogs, too.
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May 17th, 2007 at 12:52 pm, Anonymous Says:
I am afraid that rats are EVERYWHERE in California. They are not as big as the ones I’m used to seeing scurrying along the subway tracks in NYC, but they are RATS, with those tails! I just saw one in broad daylight on the sidewalk in my cute, little town….
May 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm, Annika Says:
What part of California? We don’t have ANY rats here in LA. Not one.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:32 pm, Mimi Says:
we had a mouse problem. They kept escaping from the mouse traps! We had to get a rat trap to get them, but they were mice! And we caught 2 snakes, a lizard/gekko thing and a bird in the “rat traps” too.
Damn sticky boards!
May 17th, 2007 at 6:00 pm, foodmomiac Says:
Oh you poor thing - the rats are going to follow you everywhere. We have a ton of them in Chicago. I saw one on my back porch last fall when I was with my mom. It might have been worth her reaction, though.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:05 pm, wordgirl Says:
Any more animals trying to come into your house and I’m going to predict the beginning of a Biblical-style plague. Locusts are next.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:16 pm, Irene Says:
Mice I can handle. It’s the big rats (so big that you can ride them to the grocery store) that I cannot handle.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:32 pm, dani Says:
Ack! Rats! We had rats in our old house. But I’m sure they aren’t there now… please buy our house! If you come to the bay area you have to let me meet you somewhere to buy you that promised martini!
May 17th, 2007 at 11:33 pm, dani Says:
It’s very late here in California, which is the only explanation I have for my super exlamation-pointy last comment. yeshk.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:08 am, MonkeyKisses - Liz Says:
eeeeekkkkkkkk… i dont know if i would leave the house..
May 21st, 2007 at 6:43 pm, Karianna Says:
I live in California and have no rats! (But I do have a cat…)