Not a huge deal.
We had a hole patched up, we set out traps, we caught one of the cute/scary little buggers.
I kind of thought we were done.
NOPE.
Guess where they were living?
You'll never guess.
Here's a hint: WE SLEEP ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
They live in our box spring.
You know.
The thing with the mattress on top of it.
That we sleep on.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
To be fair, to the mice, the box spring probably already had a bunch of holes in it, since the entire mattress/box spring set was a Craig's List purchase from two years ago for about forty dollars. (I realize it is possible that that may gross you out as much as the mouse-condominium situation...) And in all honesty...I was really hoping we could get a new mattress sort of soon...so....I guess now we can! Er. Have to. Haha. Now I know the trick to getting new furniture, eh?
P & I are sleeping at his aunt & uncle's house, while this goes on in our studio:
This is how I feel about the situation:
Because:
#1: Hello mice, it is finals time around here! Can't you plan your visits a little better?!
#2: Anyone who just might have been willing to sleep over with us at our studio apartment is probably not going to now!
#3: I have to stop decorating with cheese.
But I'm happy because we get a shiny new box spring and mattress. Not used. Not forty dollars, but also not home to mice. ;-)
Ewwwwwwwwwww. I'm so sorry. That's traumatizing. We had a rat living in our car's air filter, and I thought that was bad - I got pretty creeped out getting in the car for a while after that. I can't imagine having rodents in my bed! But Merry Christmas to you guys with your brand new mattress!
ReplyDeleteThis is the scariest thing I have ever heard! Your poor thing!
ReplyDeleteOh my word!! Remind me to tell you the story of when a rat died behind our dish washer in Georgetown last year. I won't go into the gross details here, but there were hundreds of flies and a peculiar smell for weeks before maintenance believed us.
ReplyDeleteDude, this happened to me, but with FLEAS. I got my cat from a friend of friend, who mentioned when she handed Mochi over that she "really should give her a bath first" (little did I know she meant a flea dip!). Anyway, Mochi discovered a tear in the fabric covering the bottom of my box spring, and she had been sleeping inside of it, along with an ever-increasing flea population. It took WEEKS after discovering the infestation for me to figure this out! So many failed flea treatments, such a nightmare. I feel for you!
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