So…which do you think is worse: finding an empty mousetrap, or one which has done what it was designed to do?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It probably depends on whether you’re viewing the situation with or without a Y chromosome. I was glad to see that little mousy corpse<\/a> splayed out under the sink this morning, while MLB<\/acronym> was disgusted. To me, the successful baiting (a piece of dog food secured with a blob of peanut butter [Jif extra crunchy, if you must know]) and planting of the trap reinforced my status as the hunter-protector of the household, although perhaps in MLB’s eyes, I should never have allowed the verminary presence in our home to begin with. But she didn’t dare say anything, because there still remained the Disposal Of The Body. Face it, women are endowed by their Creator with the ability to do certain things that men can’t fathom, like seeing dirty socks on the floor, for example. Tossing dead rodents isn’t one of those things, generally speaking. I’ll admit that I wasn’t really looking forward to it myself. I briefly contemplated whether I could rent a hazmat suit for the occasion, but decided that the plague<\/a> was probably easily combated by the avoidance of mouth-breathing during the disposal. And, as I held the little dead guy over the trash, I felt a little tinge of emotion, and a song popped into my head, unbidden, that seemed to capture the full schadenfreude<\/em> of the situation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Hey, Mickey, you’re so pretty And I saw very clearly an image of Toni Basil<\/a> prancing about in that cute little cheerleader’s outfit, pigtails waving in time to the dead mouse’s tail that I was unconsciously dancing over the trashcan… Ahem.<\/em> That’s not really the point, is it? The point is, we’ve rid ourselves of one bad guy, and I’ve set a second trap just to make sure he didn’t bring a second<\/a>. I can’t wait to peek under the sink in the morning. [*Oh, don’t you claim that you wouldn’t have stooped to the same title in a similar circumstance. I know you better than that!]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So…which do you think is worse: finding an empty mousetrap, or one which has done what it was designed to do? It probably depends on whether you’re viewing the situation with or without a Y chromosome. I was glad to see that little mousy corpse splayed out under the sink this morning, while MLB was… Continue reading Of Mice and Men*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t you understand…
You take me by the heart
When you take me by the hand?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n