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Post by finreporter on Jul 16, 2018 21:24:28 GMT
Great idea! I will ask around about mothballs and rats.
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Post by wildcat on Jul 16, 2018 23:27:17 GMT
finreporter, you have jinxed me because I just discovered a bat in my house.
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Post by zazzles on Jul 16, 2018 23:29:58 GMT
finreporter , you have jinxed me because I just discovered a bat in my house. OMG!
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Post by wildcat on Jul 17, 2018 13:24:19 GMT
finreporter , you have jinxed me because I just discovered a bat in my house. OMG! Exactly. But I survived and eventually captured the little bastard and let him loose outside. I should have let the finely tuned killing machine over there in my avatar try to take care of it, but I didn't want her getting rabies or something.
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jul 17, 2018 21:26:58 GMT
WC is my new hero. After I woke up from fainting of course. You captured him?!
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Jul 18, 2018 0:07:50 GMT
I agree on WC being a hero for capturing a bat!!
We used to get them every year when I was a kid. My mom ran out of the bedroom and locked my dad in with a bat one time. All he had was his slippers and a coke bottle. Somehow he killed it! I hate those things.
My annoyance today is that my legs are very spastic for some reason. They are twitching like crazy, it's bouncing my laptop all over the place!
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Post by wildcat on Jul 18, 2018 13:24:15 GMT
It was all quite dramatic. I can't remember if the cat meowed or what, but for whatever reason I looked up and she was sitting near me just looking at something on the floor. And then I saw that what she was looking at was bat shaped - it was flat on the ground and its wings were just flipping a little and it was making some sad little squeaks. So I thought she had pretty much killed it and it was dying. I threw a blanket on the floor on top of the bat and got the cat out of there because I didn't want her getting rabies or something. This particular room has a door, so I shut the door and thought, I can just wait for the bat to die under the blanket and then throw it outside. So I waited like 10 minutes, gathered up all my courage and took the blanket outside and shook it. And THERE WAS NO BAT! It was like a horror movie, like at the end of Halloween when they look out the window and Michael Myers isn't down there. So anyway, I guess the little asshole had just been playing dead and it snuck out from under the blanket while I was waiting for it to die. Anyway, it was flying around when I went back inside (thank God I still had the door to the room closed or it would have gotten into the rest of the house and I'd never have gotten it). So I used the blanket sort of like a net to catch it and I threw it outside and it went flying off into the sunset.
Coincidentally I had an aluminum baseball bat in the room with me because a raccoon had come up to the door a few days ago in broad daylight - I am legit terrified of raccoons so I've been taking a weapon with me when I go out to the garden in case I'm being stalked by a rabid raccoon. Anyway, I thought about trying to kill the bat with a bat, but I figured I'd probably just break everything in the room trying to hit it. So the blanket approach worked better and had the fringe benefit of not having to deal with a little bat corpse. Plus I'd always rather not kill an animal if I have the option.
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jul 18, 2018 14:04:14 GMT
wildcat I am legitimately both horrified and roflmao. You should definitely become a writer.
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Post by doordie50 on Jul 18, 2018 14:14:00 GMT
Creeped out and laughing here too!
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Post by cyndee on Jul 18, 2018 14:23:24 GMT
Whenever my husband joins me to do grocery shopping, we always end up leaving there with 3X more groceries than I would shopping alone.
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Post by hpeterson1951 on Jul 18, 2018 14:45:18 GMT
WC- that is a heck of a story. I would have loved to watch it- from far away! Cyndee- That's why I always grocery shop alone even though I hate it. So much easier to just get it done Haven't been annoyed yet today, but it's only 10:45- give it time
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Post by zazzles on Jul 18, 2018 16:48:09 GMT
Just got one of those GD robocalls on my cell phone, Since all my stuff is integrated, the call popped up on my computer screen, interrupting what I was doing. I answered it, unusual for me, and it was one of those recording designed to sound like a real person. So I played along answering a few questions to get to a live person and, after it got the answers, it hung up on me.
WHEN will CONGRESS and the FTC get this shit resolved? I know most of these illegal calls are coming in from other countries; just identify the countries, give them 30 days to get it stopped, then block all Internet telephony calls coming from those countries. GRRRR.
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Post by zazzles on Jul 18, 2018 16:49:54 GMT
"Amazon’s website crashed as soon as Prime Day began" Naturally! Though my DH would tell me "it's a sign -don't buy anything!" Moreover, I was in the midst of placing an order at about 11:58 and got around to clicking the Checkout button at 12:02 and then couldn't complete the order due to their IT woes. Apparently they've started hiring IT people away from WW!
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Post by zazzles on Jul 18, 2018 16:55:30 GMT
Coincidentally I had an aluminum baseball bat in the room with me because a raccoon had come up to the door a few days ago in broad daylight - I am legit terrified of raccoons so I've been taking a weapon with me when I go out to the garden in case I'm being stalked by a rabid raccoon. Anyway, I thought about trying to kill the bat with a bat, but I figured I'd probably just break everything in the room trying to hit it. So the blanket approach worked better and had the fringe benefit of not having to deal with a little bat corpse. Plus I'd always rather not kill an animal if I have the option. You are cracking me up. I am so ROFLOL. You chasing a Bat with a baseball bat dredged up a mental image of Chevy Chase and the movie Christmas Vacation (or any of those other National Lampoon movies).
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Post by wildcat on Jul 19, 2018 13:09:51 GMT
Look zazzles, don't make fun of me and my bat killing bat - I was trying to think on my feet! I've only encountered a bat once before, when I was a teenager. I saw something dark fly by my bedroom door and I remember that I accused my dad of playing some kind of trick on me, but he denied it. And then the next day the cat showed up with a dead bat. So I'd never had to actually deal with a live one before! This all also reminds me of the time when I was in high school when our cat (who was mostly indoor but occasinally went outside) came inside carrying a snake, which she put down and it slithered off and disappeared. I was so freaked out - I am not afraid of snakes generally and I'm fine if I see one outside. But I don't want one in the house sneaking up on me, and I was particularly afraid that it would crawl on me while I was sleeping. With all of my teenage dramatic flair, I said I refused to stay in the house until they found the snake, but my mom told me that snakes couldn't climb stairs so I would be fine since my bedroom was upstairs. And I believed her. When I was about 25 a boyfriend finally informed me that snakes can indeed climb stairs.
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