Of Mice And Men

Phone rings!
Ding a linga ling....

Me: Hello?!

Friend: Blah blah blah blah blah. (conversation ensues but I won't bore you with our chit chat.....)

After a while....

Me: Oh yeah I wrote a blog post the other day regarding that very same topic.... if you want to know my views you should read it and I'd love your comments....

Friend: Well how do you leave comments?

Me: You click on the word comments at the end of the post and you just follow the instructions. It's very easy.

Friend: Ok

Me: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  ( I won't bore you with the remainder of that conversation...)

It was after that, that I noticed a comment on one of my blog posts, but, I must admit, it wasn't what I was anticipating...

Someone has serious issues with...

I sweated for a few days wondering who it could be because it couldn't be my friend.... I looked on the stat counter and found out that the person leaving those "rude" remarks was from Kamloops...... I thought who in the world has mouse issues....

Now, I'll be honest, pictures of mice and the real thing running around your house are two very different things. Regularly my old black cat, who is a great mouser deposits mice on my doorstep as an offering.... or I should say parts of mice..... It's quite gruesome...

But at Christmas time I love my Christmas mice decorations. And pictures of them are quite alright.... Those little whiskery noses are cute.... (the paws are disgusting though)!

Mice do have their place in nature. There are many animals that survive only because they eat mice. Many hawks and birds of prey exist mainly on a diet of mice. Coyotes, though the farmers around here won't admit it.... love mice and eat thousands of them. So in a way we really need mice.   It is a good thing that they breed so quickly because all those animals in the wild that eat them would starve.

Anyway, I kept thinking about the person who had left rodent remarks. She even told me to get my EYES CHECKED when I said they were cute!!!! Hmmm.... : (

I began to stew, and Teapot kept telling me to get over it.....he reminded me that not everybody is going to be positive about everything I say..... and he had a point.

Yesterday, I was looking at the stat counter again and I noticed that the Kamloops commenter was coming back regularly and it was then that it dawned on me that the unexpected comment came just after the phone conversation that you read above..... well, being the "awesome sleuth" (smirk) that I am, I started to think about the person from Kamloops..... hmmm... my server says that I come from Calgary,and Red Deer most often..... but occasionally from Edmonton and I am nowhere near that..... so possibly the Kamloops person was not really from Kamloops, maybe it was just her server routing her through there...... hmmm!

Phone rings......
Ding a linga ling.....

Me: Hello?!

Friend: Yadda yadda yadda yadda  (further conversations ensue.....).

After a while I get the guts up to ask.....

Me: Did you ever leave comments on my blog.....

Friend: Yes?!!! Sure you answered them....

Me: (dawning light coming on in my head) Ohhhh! That was you!!!!

Friend: Yeah! I figured you had to know...

Me: (with relief in my voice) Right! You're the one with rodent issues!

Friend: Well you know I hate mice....

Me: But you're coming up as someone from Kamloops....

Friend: I am...?!!!!  I'm the lady from Kamloops... ha ha ha ha ha...

Me: You gave me quite a turn.

I must say that I got off the phone and had a good laugh over the whole misunderstanding.....

So to my friend who has rodent issues....

You can knit 'em!

You can eat 'em!

You can laugh at 'em!

You can have coffee with 'em!

You can go to church with 'em!

You can even get drunk with 'em!

But never, ever, ever, tease your friends about them..... ; )

I know... I know..... "I'm such a brat!" : )