Grab a chair....

So I actually have a funny story from today.

I was sitting at my desk, doing my Monday duties (payroll, scheduling, etc....) and I kept hearing this "clicking" noise. It was FREEZING in the office this morning so I figured it was the heat coming on.

After a while I kept hearing it. No big deal but I didn't feel that the office was getting any warmer.

I said something to my co-worker just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. She heard it too. I looked under a table from where the noise was coming from and saw vents, so I figured once again that it was the heat coming on.

The day goes on and every now and then I would hear it, but I really wasn't paying too much attention.

After awhile another co-worker had come back from her meeting. I heard it again and asked her if she did too. She did and asked, "what is that?" I said, "I think it's a heater." Then she said, "what heater?" I said, "the one that's under the table over there....."

She looked under the table and said, "that's not a heater, that's a mouse trap!" I didn't believe her, I saw the vents, I had looked under the table already!

As she pulled the table out, she said, "no, that's a mouse trap." I looked down and noticed that whatever the contraption was, it wasn't attached to the wall. I pulled on it just to make sure and then I saw it......It's nose pointing out of a whole in the back. It was DEFINITELY a mouse! I jumped backwards and ran in the other direction.

We grabbed someone else in the office, but he didn't want to take it outside in fear of being "charged" for the trap. Totally understandable. We ended up calling the exterminator. "One will be out shortly." (well I left at 5:45 and no one had come yet)

After about twenty minutes and the trap was still there, I noticed that no clicking was coming out of it. It was completely silent.

We got someone else who had no qualms about taking it outside and dumping it. Although he came back five minutes later and said that it was empty.

Empty?

EMPTY? No way! I saw him! I heard him! And I wasn't the only one! There is no way that it should have been empty.

And now we have a mouse running around.

GREAT!

Needless to say I didn't get much work done for the rest of the day.