Raoul...

Yesterday when I came home I saw a rat. It was black with a body the size of the diameter of a salad plate and a very long tail. It ran between my desk and the wall. I reacted by screaming and running out the door. Once out I realized I had nothing, so I ran as quickly as possible to grab my purse which had my car key and phone in it. It did not have the apt key in it but I could care less at that point about locking the door!

I immediately drove to the apartment office. I told the lady I needed to fill out a maintenance request form. I wrote.... "Rat, get it out!" She said the pest control normally doesn't come until Wednesday but she called and they said they would come on Tuesday for me.

JP invited me to hang out with him at his work party to escape the rat. After that I talked to Laurel for a long time during this ordeal. We decided the rat was Raoul the rat.

The rest of the night I was so paranoid and I wouldn't go into the apartment. I finally went and bought some sound repellant at Lowes which lets out a noise that only the rats can hear. To them it sounds as obnoxious as a fire alarm.

This whole time JP is totally cool with living with a rat. To quote him, "half the world eats rats" He did however at one point attempt to find the rat and bash him over the head with an iron skillet. He was unsuccessful. Last night I demanded to sleep in the middle of the bed (apparently i felt safer from the rat?) so poor JP was kind enough to scrunch over on his side so I could sleep in the middle.

This morning the pest control guy came while JP was still at home. He found some mouse poop (i still think i saw a rat not a mouse) in the bathroom. There was already some poison behind the fridge and stove that hadn't been messed with and there was a cheerio and sweetart under the stove. If Raoul was living here then those things would not have been here. We determined Raoul was just visiting and not hopefully not a permanent resident. The pest control guy put down some more rat poison so hopefully Raoul will transfer his business elsewhere!

Rat's are NOT cute at all so I don't think they should make children's cartoons out of them!