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[LordBaal]

it might have been a blood vessel bursting on the back your nose or something due exertion.

Im glad you feel better, but you still should have a check, just in case 

[Magmacube_tr]

My own fucking reflection.

My dumb stupid idiot, foggy as fuck brain somehow forgot that mirrors existed this morning, so as I dragged my feet towards the kitchen by the coat stand and the long and narrow mirror attached to it for my morning coffee, from the corner of my eye I saw this slumped figure in twilight right next to for a split second.

As I made a husky low pitch yelp, my own terrified face greeted me. I was scared out of my mind for a second there, it took me a moment to recognise my own face.

At least it woke me up for good.

[None]

When I was newly single a few years back, I was still adjusting to living alone a few weeks after. Was prepping to call it a night, so I headed past my bedroom towards the bathroom when, from the corner of my eye, I saw someone in my bed. Brain did that silent shriek until it understood that it was just some blankets kinked some way, but for a hot minute there, that cross in wires where your brain understands nobody's there any more, expects someone to be there from memory, and then sees someone there anyways, bbrgh. Metaphorically speaking, I'd seen a ghost.

More recently, I was cleaning the kitchen and swept a big ol' dust bunny out from under the fridge- nasty fuzzy gray thing on the move! I definitely yelped, hahahaha.

Brains are dumb, but the living is good.

[Loud Whispers]

My own fucking reflection.

My dumb stupid idiot, foggy as fuck brain somehow forgot that mirrors existed this morning, so as I dragged my feet towards the kitchen by the coat stand and the long and narrow mirror attached to it for my morning coffee, from the corner of my eye I saw this slumped figure in twilight right next to for a split second.

As I made a husky low pitch yelp, my own terrified face greeted me. I was scared out of my mind for a second there, it took me a moment to recognise my own face.

At least it woke me up for good.

At least this tells you your instincts are calibrated right

[McTraveller]

Not really terrified, but along the lines of a real-life jump scare: I was sitting at my computer desk, and a mouse literally ran across my foot.  At least I was wearing socks.

[dragdeler]

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[McTraveller]

BWAH just about jumped out of my skin - the mouse was walking across my desk behind my monitor where I have all the cables and power supplies and stuff.

Seriously mouse, do you not smell the nice peanut butter in the trap on the floor not 6 feet away?




EDIT: and of course I will likely jump if the trap does go off, since it's behind me and off to the side slightly...

[Magmacube_tr]

Seriously mouse, do you not smell the nice peanut butter in the trap on the floor not 6 feet away?

It knows its a trap. Natural Selection made them extra smart.

[heydude6]

BWAH just about jumped out of my skin - the mouse was walking across my desk behind my monitor where I have all the cables and power supplies and stuff.

Seriously mouse, do you not smell the nice peanut butter in the trap on the floor not 6 feet away?




EDIT: and of course I will likely jump if the trap does go off, since it's behind me and off to the side slightly...

Get a cat friend. That animal is smarter than any trap on the market. It won’t stop until every mouse is gone.

[Loud Whispers]

Get a cat friend. That animal is smarter than any trap on the market. It won’t stop until every mouse is gone.

Depends; my ginger cat will rarely catch a mouse if he feels like it. My black and white cat is the T-1000 of mouse catchers.

[King Zultan]

Had a mouse running around my house awhile back and I saw it dart into the bathroom a couple of times but I could never find it, and then a little bit later I go in there to find the mouse had committed suicide in the toilet.

[McTraveller]

I could probably tolerate a cat, but the wife's allergic.

I did find a trapped mouse this morning. Not in the trap in my office, but in the utility room on the other side of the wall from my office.  Of course, I don't know if it's the desk-walking mouse or not.

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This brings the count to 7 caught mice in the past month and a half or so.

[LordBaal]

That sounds like an infestation dude.

[delphonso]

Do you live pretty far north/south? If it's starting to cool down, they're probably seeking out refuge for the winter.

[LordBaal]

Probably north, south has spring starting now.