This morning we had a visitor in the dorm. He got a couple guys pretty excited, too, to the point that they woke up everyone else in the dorm. I was already awake so I saw our visitor run in through a small hole in the wall. A mouse!
The unit must go through phases of mouse life because we seem to hit high rodent activity for a couple of weeks, then see nothing for a few months. Unfortunately for this mouse, he woke up and chose to be active.
The mouse stayed close to the wall as Biscuit and Jimmy tried to catch him with a broom and a jar. Under the bunk went the mouse; over and around went Biscuit and Jimmy. Their loud strategizing and banging around is what wakened the other guys. Finally, after several minutes of hooting and hollering, Biscuit caught the mouse's tail under the broom and Jimmy persuaded the mouse to crawl into the empty peanut butter jar.
Once caught, Biscuit wanted to keep the mouse and see how long it would live. However someone had other plans. Greg took the jar over to the hot water reservoir and emptied water to fill about a quarter of the jar. Ten seconds at most was all the time the poor mouse had to writhe in the scalding water. Satisfied that it was dead, Greg dumped the mouse into the toilet and flushed. The excitement certainly was short-lived.
* "A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river." - Chinese proverb
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