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April 27, 2007
Mouse Trap - Cover Blown!
Today has been one of those really crazy days. First of all, they never came to get the dumpster yesterday, so i had to borrow Seymen's car in the AM to go to the gym...But he had to be at work @ 8, so I had to cut my trip short...Then I came home and worked a little until the ITS guy called and was trying to help me configure my cisco router...When I finished with him, I had internet connectivity...but my phyiscal set up was wrong...I so I tried to configure the setup myself to how it was before...Well that didn't work out so well...I lost complete access to the Internet...Then I called Seymen and while troubleshooting...AFTER we restored our linksys router to factory defaults...I realized I had the cable plugged into the wrong port.
SOooo, anyway, on with my original story...So I was sitting at home...feeling reallly lonely, and slightly panicky because the internet wouldn't work (and you know I can't go that long without access!)...Seymen was on his way home from work to fix it for me...when someone showed up at the door. I went to answer it and it was some pest control guy.
Me: Hi.
Pest Guy: Hi! I'm here about your mice problem.
Me: Mice problem? Are you sure you have the right house?
Pest Guy: Ummm...Yeah, I have a confirmation here..
Me: 27 Hoyt Place?
Pest Guy: Yup...See here? Seymen...
Me: ...hmmm...OK...well Seymen is on his way home...should be here in a few minutes. But he didn't tell me you were coming. I will call him. So wait? We have MICE???
Pest Guy: Umm I don't know...Did you just move in?
Me: Well, we moved in, in December.
Pest Guy: Oh, hmmm..Well I've been coming here for the past 6 months...
So I get Seymen on the phone. He talks to guy and tells him to wait for him outside. When Seymen arrived, I walked outside...Both him and the pest guy had these guilty looks on their faces...
Me: Umm...Seymen? SO do we have mice??
Seymen: Well...no...not anymore.
Me: WHAT?!?!?! We had mice!!
Seymen: Ummmm...welll, yeah.
Pest Guy: (Laughing) Well aren't you glad you found out AFTER they were all gone?!?!
Me: Actually...YES! I'm REALLY glad!
LOL!!! So after the pest guy left...Seymen and I went to Wendy's for lunch...where the whole story finally spilled out...Apparently Seymen found mouse droppings when we moved in. He has been secretly getting the issue resolved on the DL, while I was either @ the gym, at work when I worked outside of the house, or on business trips. Apparently, the schedule was messed up and the guy wasn't suppposed to come today because they came last Saturday (while I was out of town). Seymen told me that when he was outside with the guy he goes: "Dude...your killing me!" ;-) LOL.
The other funny part is that apparently, everyone knows about this. My mom and Step-dad...my dad...Nate...and no one told me! I told Seymen he was lucky! No one even slipped up in 6 MONTHS!!! That's pretty impressive!
Anyway, I can't stop laughing about it...how much trouble Seymen went to keep me from freaking out and moving out of the house over mice ;-) In a kind of mixed up way, it was really sweet of him, and I definitely love him for being so nice to me :-)...that and I just can't stop laughing everytime I think about him getting a phone call from me to tell him the pest guy is here about MICE :-) He was like...ohhh CRAP.
Posted by beth at April 27, 2007 01:00 PM