The 'Eat Your Food and Like It' Complaint Thread
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Which will catch mice outside and bring them inside, given half a chance. Two cats back used to catch baby rabbits and then climb up the trellis on the side of the garage, leap out to hook her paws into the gutter, swing up on to the garage roof, and come in through my side window with a muffled but triumphant meow to let us know she's snuck another live one in.
Hmmm..., well then, you must have clever mice. I'm sorry for you. Mine are apparently not so clever. Although, I use peanut butter and I keep putting the three traps in the same three places (near stove, behind trash, silverware drawer) and they stumble into one of them. Unfortunately it seems to be more often than not, my silverware drawer.
I have recently started using mint fragrance packets under my sink area (which I think is where they are entering). Designed as a mouse deterent, supposedly. They seem to be working, and the undercabinet smells minty instead of musty but haven't seen a mouse in a while.
The problem with that is I have open cupboards which means the cat would ignore the mice while emptying the cupboards onto the floor ,plus my parrot wouldn't be happy ,of course he's not happy about the mouse either .
yup yup
Just ordered some mint packs as well as peanut butter and corn bread mix to mix with baking soda ,though I'm kinda afraid that will cause little mouse corpses where I can't get to them ......
Electric mouse traps, friends. If you're not doing catch-and-release, This Is The Way.
It's a plastic tube with a mouse-sized entry point at the end of one of the long sides. The kind I have uses batteries. (You can get ones that plug into the wall, but then you can only put it near a plug. Which... not convenient.)
You turn it on, the light on the top blinks a couple times to let you know it's ready for service, and it sits there until a mouse smells the bait and crawls in.
ZAP! Fast, effective, and as humane as possible. If there's a moment of pain or fear, it's brief.
The light blinks every ten seconds when it needs to be emptied, and I take it down to the garage can and close my eyes as I pull the top off and let the mouse fall out. (I'm a softie, I cry if I see it; the soft 'plop' as it hits the trash bag is bad enough.) So it's a nearly zero-contact disposal.
Also, no cleanup necessary. I used mine all last winter, and it never once got icky inside.
Rebait (I use half of a cracker), put the top back on, put it back out, ready for the next one. Once in a while it gets confused and is still blinking, but turning it off and on again fixes that.
Battery usage seems to be minimal; I didn't change and it was still working as spring came. (It's 2 or 3 AA or AAA, I can't recall exactly.)
ETA: my little stinkers are clever and often escape the live traps a few times before I manage to get them. I've never had one get the bait and get out of the electric kind.
Hmmm I'll keep that in mind ......
That's a good idea. We have mice all the time, despite having 4 cats. Well, two cats and two 8 month old kittens. It's an old* house with lots of places for them to enter, apparently.
*The American defninition of old, i.e. built in 1930, as opposed to the European definition of old.
Non-complaint: At noon today I toddled up to the local grocery for just a couple of things, and to catch the annual Memorial Day parade. Typical small town parade, high school band, old cars, tractors, firetrucks, ancient veterans on a hay wagon, FFA members (Future Farmers of America). But the parade is getting smaller every year. It used to fill the downtown area with hundreds of people lining the street, and the parade would go on for an hour. Today's parade hardly lasted 20 minutes and there were perhaps 75 or 80 people along the streets. Grocery store is right on the corner in the middle of town along the parade route. I popped into the grocery before the parade was over to avoid the post-parade crowd. I'd gotten past the first two isles and then the crowd decended on the store, whole families of 7 or 8, wending their way through the grocery isles, like a string of ducks.
Those seem worth checking. The break-back traps can be cruel, sometimes only a limb gets caught and the poor creature is either left struggling or (the first few times, before wwe learnt the lesson and attached a string) crawls off taking the trap with it.
Non-Complaint: The chemical plant event is basically done out here. Combo of cooler weather, a cracked tank that wasn't supposed to happen, and the hazmat & fire responders.
I can't help but keep thinking about the almost 800 responders fighting this, some unknown number of them working inside the "Total Desctuction zone" of the potential blast radius for several days.
To help people like myself and my family, and around 50,000 others. Yeah...Hero is the right word.
I did a lot of research, and they seemed too good to be true, but they've really proven themselves.
So, so glad everyone is safe. Hopefully this will spark change to prevent a similar disaster in the future.
So glad the "bomb" didn't go off.
Could'a been baaaad.
Non-Complaint: I got my spreadsheet all balanced again, even with the unexpected purchase of a new (but smaller) A/C unit, my checking account is still in the black for this pay period without having to raid my savings again (yet). It's gonna be close though.
I still have three more weeks before "payday". If I can keep the doctors at bay, and my body functioning adequately, it should be doable.
Not taking any trips into the city for the last two weeks has been a big help. As has eating out of cans from my well stocked pantry. However, I'm getting a severe case of wanderlust and/or cabin fever. And I do have a dentist appointment nine days from now, that is probably going to result in a root canal operation ($$$$) that can be paid for with "future money"(i.e. CC) But my tooth isn't hurting right now so, I'm gonna see if I can talk him out of it for a few more months (yes, I have risky, masochistic tendencies
). Still haven't found a local buyer for the mistakenly purchased too large A/C unit still serving as an ad-hoc kitchen shelf.
But if it sells, that will put me solidly back in the safe zone.
Temps here are going to 80F again today, but will be cool for several days afterward, but my new A/C is here, waiting for maintenance guy to carry it upstairs and install it for me. Fingers crossed.
Speaking of dead rodent issues: Back in the early '90s I was still in central Washington, DC living with my Max. I'd sold our three story townhouse and we moved temporarily into a nice apartment in the three story building next door. The building owner was a friend of ours and lived in the equally nice apartment above us. He'd had the building completely renovated with three big apartments, one on each floor. One evening, the neighbor (owner) from upstairs knocked on our door and asked us to come up and look at his kitchen ceiling light. He wasn't sure what he was looking at.... admitting that he was, at the moment, very high on LSD.
We, being not inexperienced, knew that sometimes one under that influence couldn't always believe one's eyes.
OK, so we go up and walk into his kitchen, nice new modern kitchen, and there coming out of the ceiling light fixture, and piling up on the floor below it, were maggots. Another one dropping from the ceiling now and then.
"Yes", we said. "You do have maggots coming out of your light. You're not imagining it."
He, not being in a condition conducive to grabbing a screwdriver and checking the source of the problem asked me to do it (of course he did
) After all, we were his friends, and tenants, and not tripping (although, I would have thought the situation to have been a landlord problem). With the light fixture unmounted from the ceiling we found a dead rat, not mouse, a big city rat. Apparently killed by the poison set earlier in the week, and that had picked an inconvenient place to die. I was able to slide the rat and maggot swarm into a bag and replace the light. Owner went back to his private mental world for the rest of the evening. We went back to TV. So, that's my major rodent story.
I should have asked for a month's free rent.
Note: There are more stories about that apartment building, but those are for another day.
Got the little Bturd ...unforunately for it ,it nose dived into the sticky trap couldn't complain about being there so when I checked this morning there it's tiny furry self was stuck firm ,so it got a warm bath .Gonna check into the electric traps when buget allows.For now stuck another sticky trap behind the micro in case there are more furry freeloaders .
Been watching the chemical tank issue glad it's under control .
Complaint: It's not enough that I had to buy a power supply and I had to pay the computer repair guy who didn't repair anything. And that I had to pay for my cat's vet appointment. And that she needs surgery. And that my air conditioner broke. No, now my washing machine broke. The washing machine repair guy gave it a temporary fix that cost $176 and should last for maybe 6 to 12 months. But the actual, proper repair is "not cost effective." He said I should just buy a new one when it gives out again, because fixing it properly would cost more. Nothing else had better break is all I'm saying. My funds are definitely not endless.
Non-complaint: At least he got it running for now. So I can kick that can down the road a bit.
I think you've had your fair share for now. Sending good karma across the Atlantic.
Yikes. The bad luck bird seriously needs to stop pooping on you.
complaint: Got a spontaneous bill for $700 for one of Little Dude's psych appointments (in March). So I called and asked what was up with that, as insurance should have covered it.
Them: Well, his insurance wasn't active until 4/1, and the appointment was on 3/27.
Me: Correct. He had different insurance prior to that, which was active until 3/31. Have you tried billing the insurance that was active when he had the appointment?
Them: ...no....
Me: Do you need the info?
Them: No, I see it here in his file.
Me: How about you try billing them, then.
I just can't with the stupidity in the world these days. I finally got as far as sending the equipment list to the timecard place so they could purchase it (because that's how that works, I guess). I did it on a very basic Excel spreadsheet, assuming this might make it more difficult for them to muck up. You'd think I'd handed over the holy grail or something; my account manager is stripping my data out and sending a blank version to all her coworkers so they can use it going forward because it's just perfect and would make their lives so much easier.
How. Just how. Did you not. Think of that. Yourselves.
non-complaint: I think I might be her new favorite person, so maybe that'll come in handy down the road.
...that bird needs to stop pooping on a lot of us,
Complaint:
Aren't "smart" meters wonderful. They can do all sorts of stuff that make life a whole lot easier for you. Stuff like preventing you from getting electricity, or gas (or in my case both). Couldn't make it up, could you. For the past five days I've been living between two flats, cause there's no energy at the new one!
Final move-in day has now been extended to next Monday because of the meters. Call me sarcastic, but I much preferred to take a meter reading, and turn the tap or flip the switch! The fun doesn't stop there, either. Because once the bloody things are supplying energy, I intend to move them to a different supplier anyway. Since I'm not the owner of BP or Shell, I've decided both Gas and Electric are going on Pay As You Go, and both are going on Zero Standing Charge tariffs as well.
Non-Complaint:
On the plus side, my current flat costs me as much in standing charges as it does in energy, so I'll be much better off under those new plans in the new flat once I have them sorted (even though the energy tariff is higher for certain hours of the day). Apparently I can just top up my gas or electric at any time using either their website or the iPhone/iPad app they supply. Must admit I do prefer that aspect of it, and love the idea of only paying for what I use (Zero Standing Charges), so will never receive a paper gas or electricity bill again. Plus, after doing a bit of research, I know for a fact that the meters are compatible with the supplier I intend to switch to, so at least I'll be ready for those energy suppliers if they try pulling any BS on me!
PS: For those wondering why this stuff is big deal, the UK already has the highest energy bills in the world (and they're about to jump considerably higher) !!!
Isn't pay-as-you-go usually an expensive way to buy?
Yes, please
In general it's more expensive, because for most households, the higher price per energy unit (on Zero Standing Charge Tariffs) is enough to offset the savings. The one I chose does have a higher than normal rate, but then automatically drops to a lower rate each day after the first 36p or something. That alone tells me it will work out cheaper since the meter at my old flat costs more than that (per day) for the standing charge alone. So by switching, not only is that first 36p only accumulated by using actual energy, I'm already way ahead because a separate standing charge does not exist.
Another benefit is that the new flat is both gas and electric, whereas my old flat was all electric. The price of gas is four times cheaper per equivalent power, so not only do I save in the way just described, I would also never run-up anywhere near the amount of electricity that I used to in my old flat (since in my old flat everything from the heating to the cooker, the oven, everything was electric at four times the cost per equivalent energy unit of gas).
Especially the invisible birds. Went to open my car door and splat, I looked up, and there was no bird in sight. Come to think of it, it could have been worse when I looked up, then splat.
There is a theory in psychology that hypothesizes dreams are the brain's way of processing information we are exposed to. I caught up on reading this thread last night, went to sleep, and all night long I dreamed about MICE.
Complaint: One of my brothers was found dead on his couch today.
Hahahahah I'm sorry that's funny !!