Friday, April 09, 2004
Parent Story
I was visiting Rude Cactus a while back, and read this funny mouse story. It reminded me of the mouse story that my mother told me.
My father came home from work every evening with a pocket of pistashio nuts in his suit jacket. One evening, he draped his jacket over a kitchen chair and went to bed.
When he got up in the morning, there was a hole in the jacket, and just below the pocket there were a lot of pistashio shells strewn around.
A Mouse!! So my parents (not sure which one did the deed) diligently set a mouse trap that night and caught a furry little critter.
As it turns out, they repeated the “set a mouse trap” scenerio 17 times and caught 17 mice. They lived in a very nice neighborhood that was not, they thought, vermin infested.
I’m just so glad I wasn’t living at home at that time. The whole scene would have upset me a lot (they’re so cute!!). But thanks, Chris, for reminding me of this story.
Anyone else have any unusual parent stories to share? If you post, I will read. And laugh or cry, whichever seems most appropriate. Buzz, don’t pay any attention to this request.
