{"id":2596,"date":"2014-02-07T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2014-02-07T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:19:18","slug":"a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/a-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mouse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mouse_profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2597\" alt=\"Mouse, Profile\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mouse_profile-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mouse_profile-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mouse_profile-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mouse_profile.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As with every winter, there are mice in our office building.<\/p>\n<p>Not rats, mice.<\/p>\n<p>Little teensy tiny brown mice.\u00a0 Annoying, and kind of gross, if you think about it.\u00a0 But never something I&#8217;ve been particularly afraid of.\u00a0 I always thought that the vision of people climbing up on desks and shrieking in fear when seeing a mouse was a joke.<\/p>\n<p>I thought wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 If a mouse were to suddenly run across my desk in front of me while working, I would probably gasp audibly.\u00a0 But not because of fear, because of being startled.\u00a0\u00a0 And I would prefer they be elsewhere.\u00a0 But I do not fear them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the mere mention of a mouse in the office has sent some of my coworkers fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>I am kind of surprised at the way our building management is handling the mice.\u00a0 Apparently, snap traps are frowned upon, so instead we have unbaited glue traps.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, unbaited.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because apparently people complained about the smell of the peanut butter in the traps.<\/p>\n<p>I asked one of the guys if the unbaited glue traps worked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not really,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>So we continue to share space with the mice.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve started naming them, much to my boss&#8217;s chagrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with every winter, there are mice in our office building. 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