A bat flying about my bedroom woke me up at 4:00 AM. I heard fluttering on the mattress beside me then something hit the fan. I bolted up from sleep. I thought someone was in the house, it took a while to realize it was a bat. I put the lights on and he disappeared. I mustered some courage and crept downstairs, turning lights on as I moved forward and I got to my laptop, put a message on Facebook and began to Google "how to get rid of a bat in the house." Everything I found told me not to kill it but to wear gloves, and gather it in a towel and move it outside. I knew I could NOT pick it up with a towel. I was too frightened to even look for it. I sent an email to my boss telling him about my dilemma and that I would be late, maybe not even make it in today. He emailed me when he woke up and was very understanding, suggested I call pest control if I couldn't manage. I sent an email to my condo property management company asking if any people in my block had complained of a bat problem. I could handle the telephone and computer...sitting on the couch but wasn't comfortable moving around the house.
After daylight I called my son, he promised to come soon. Craig arrived while I was on the telephone in the bedroom with the door shut. I didn't even know he was in the house, he checked upstairs first, then the basement and quickly found him near the ceiling. He picked him off the wall with a tea towel and came into the bedroom (I gasped!) and calmly announced, "it's ok, I got him." Second reaction from me was relief, third one "THAT'S MY TEA TOWEL!" He told me to come and watch him let it go. It didn't move for quite a while when he put it in the garden box, it seemed stunned but eventually got its bearings and hopped under the holly shrub. I guess it will fly away tonight.
My boss and his director simultaneously broke into song--the theme from Batman--when I came to the office around lunchtime.
3 comments:
I should have read this before posting a caption on your momentile. Fascinating little yarn. :)
Dominie thank you for the caption...and for your comment here. Nice to meet you! I am enjoying your momentiles.
Sounds like your boss has a great sense of humour..
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