Here in Bellingham there is a little company called BioBug. I used to pass by their place on Holly Street all the time and think that their design for their sign and name was very catchy. I think either the owner must be a "gen x" member or was advised by one. Anyway, since moving to Sudden Valley I have become acquainted with the little co. Perhaps much more acquainted than I'd like to be. Because, you see, my house is infested. OK maybe infested is a little harsh, but to me it is not an exageration. I hate rodents. If I see a hamster or a gerbil I start to shake and get nervous and my heartbeat goes up. We have mice in our garage and that is just not OK. When somebody told me recently that she had mice in her garage I told her that if that happened to me I would just pour gas all over my house, take my kids and put them in the car, back the car up onto the street, walk down and throw in a lighted match, and just drive away. Well, that was a pretty stupid way to tempt fate. We had mice in our storage unit: we could tell from all the droppings we found in our stuff. But, we went through all that and now there are new droppings in the garage. As soon as I found those I got right on the horn with BioBug and said, "yeah, hi, it's me. come right now. OK. bye." So they did. And the guy, John, was definitely not what I expected, which was that John Goodman exterminator character in that movie...was it "Arachniphobia"? Anyway, he was a cute little guy, very professional, not at all creepy, and he even wore a cool pair of sunglasses.
Unfortunately, their prices have gone up...my sister in law paid around $64 for what I am paying $140 or so. That bummed me out a bit.
But then last night, as I was in the garage, finishing up taking the garbage out to the street and packing for our camping trip, I happened to look into an empty white garbage can and saw a dead brown mouse. OK. That is all I can say about it because I am starting to shiver and feel creepy crawly things all over me. It was friggin' sick and I would pay good old John A THOUSAND DOLLARS to come and get it and take it away and all of its little friends and neighbors too. Man, I hate mice. The image of it just keeps playing in my mind. Out! Out! So BioBug will come today, I will leave for 24 hours to go camping and I will come back and the house will be a mouse fighting machine. And I will have a phone number I can call and say, "yeah, hi, it's me. there's a mouse. yeah. come get it now. OK. bye."
