Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Bathroom Shenanigans.

My office has two bathrooms, one of which used to be the women's room. I haven't considered it as the women's room, really, since the guys refacing the building set up the scaffolding outside the window, and I took to using the windowless men's room. Around that time, someone took down the signs on the doors which read, "Innies," and "Outties."

In theory, though, the room with the windows and no heat is the women's room. This plastic rat has been sitting on the mirror above the women's room sink for at least as long as I've worked here:




Yesterday, the rat was sitting along the wall, next to the toilet:



This morning, the rat had mysteriously moved again:


Now, far be it from me to allow Mr. Plastic Rat to build a nest using our toilet paper! We must conserve office supplies - I mean, there's a recession on. Seriously. So I took matters into my own hands:



Yes, that is an ant trap. But - next to it? How about a close up?



A little board gaming on the john? Don't mind if I do!

(P.S. - Did anyone else learn about Rube Goldberg from playing that game? Man, I loved that game, even though it never worked exactly right.)


UPDATE: THE DAY AFTER


MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH Everything is going according to plan . . .


MONDAY UPDATE:





And he took the toilet paper? Oh, rat, this means war. I will string you up by the bits your mama gave you, so help me god.



2 comments:

Leigh Russell said...

We had what the council called a 'casual intruder' - and he wasn't plastic! I was ever-so-slightly upset at having a rat in the house. My husband was more concerned that our 'visitor' had eaten the chocolate biscuits... !
I came here to ask for help but was completely sidetracked into your bathroom.
Here's my call for help all the way from the UK - I have a book out in June which is currently available on every amazon site across the globe except Amazon.uk. I'm hoping lots of people across the pond will order through amazon.com and make the idiots at amazon.uk take notice and sort out the glitch on their website that's stopping my book from being displayed here. Please help me in my huge task of taking on amazon! (Do you think your rat would like a copy? I'm sure he could chew it up nicely.)

rachaelgking said...

So, I was on the Twatter and saw I had a request from you and was all "YAY!" Then I was an asshat and accidentally clicked "block" instead of "accept". Which I then fixed immediately and followed YOU, but it means your request disappeared. I'm so sorry!

Sincerely,

Butterfingers, aka LiLu