For the past...I dono...2 weeks now, I have been hearing a weird noise. It was very noticeable at night...but maybe that was due to being in this room on the computer at that time. The noise was soo loud I had the heebie jeebies. I called my Father. He informed me it may be a mouse...rat or even squirrel. WHAT!!!! Um, only 3 living things belong in this house right now. Me, Kalee and Bear! No 4 legged rodent is welcome! So I listen....jump when I hear it tumble from one side to another....and decided to quickly e-mail Max informing him that if he sees a Motel 8 on the charge card he'll know why! I left the room, shut the door and shoved towels under it. I was freaked out! I called Mom who gave me ideas about setting traps. Yeah I'll set em' but who's gunna clean them up? Surely not I!!! At 6am the next morning I was awakened to a chewing on metal sound. AAAH! I opened my blinds and laid in bed looking at the trees in the back to see if I saw maybe a squirrel...or five! It was pouring cats and dogs...why would a squirrel go out there when it, or they, could be cozy in MY wall? I swear what ever it was made itself a home!
So as I woke up for the second and final time with the kids...3-4 hours later (we have a weird schedule I can't seem to break) I opened google.com. The old folks would use the phone book....but it takes too long. I can't seem to think as backwards as these Virginians to find something as simple as Best Buy. So good ol' google gave me several companies...and I called them ALL!
"Hi, my name is freaked out and I'm deathly afraid of 4 or more legged rodents. It sounds like I have a large colony of something using my wall insides as a jungle gym. Can you get someone here NOW to investigate so I don't have to send my husband an e-mail explaining a Hilton charge on our credit card?"
"Um, between 1 and 3? That is like 3-5 hours from now! The things can chew threw the drywall (my father told me so) and be pushing each other in my son's Tonka truck across the room buy then!"
I managed to line up 3 different companies to give free estimates by 4pm. The first guy..."Ma'am, I'm sorry but I don't see any activity." The second company..."Wellllllp (really, that is what he said with his long drawn out Southern accent) I ain't seen evidence of droppins', but yaught ta try hittin' the wall when you hear the noise. If he stops movin' for a sec and then continues fluffin his bed ya prolly got a mouse. If it squeals like a pig and runs I becha got a squirrel." All I can say is WOW! And the third company asked after inspecting all attic areas..."Ma'am, do you have a ladder that would reach the second floor gutters?" So here is when I haul out my husbands newest toy. He reaches the top, looks around and made a noise. "Is this what your hearing?" YEAH! YEAH, that IS the noise! That is exactly what I have been....
And he threw a PLASTIC BALL down!!! What the.........? Evidently, water was in the gutter...how about that, it's been raining....and the wind was spinning the floating ball against the metal making a "chewing" noise.
I profusely apologised to these pest control techs and said "That's why your the experts!!!"
5 comments:
Oh my gosh I am so glad it wasn't anything else. I was worried for you. I love you and happy all is well
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! YOu had me laughing so hard. You poor thing the same thing would have happened to me. I am glad for your sake that it wasn't anything but a ferocious ball attacking your home.
I would have been equally as freaked out! We had a similar experience at Stacy's where a bird actually flew in the vent behind the stove and got trapped behind the mounted microwave- every time I heard it scratching or flapping I got the chills!
Dang...I know that was freaking you out...good thing it was only a ball. I really hate to think what you would have done if were a RAT! LOL. I am with the j snow...you had me laughing!
Hahahaha!!!! Only in your life Averi!!! You should be taped for television. I think your life is far more interesting than "Seven Strangers picked to live in a house". Hahaha.
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