Oh, Even Steven, you silly pranking jokester! Can you not even let The Pony have some peace at home? The Pony works hard, and only wants to relax once the job part of the day is done. Many evenings, this includes falling asleep on the couch after supper, then waking up in the wee hours of the morning when nature calls. But no, Even (sometimes known as EVIL) Steven! You have to keep The Pony on his toes with your constant shenanigans.
On one of our morning phone calls this week, The Pony revealed the latest calamity.
"I fell asleep on the couch again. It's a good thing I turned on the light this time when I went to my hall bathroom. There was a SLUG on the toilet seat!"
"YUCK! Was it gray, or one of those spotted ones? We used to get them all the time on the sidewalk at my $17,000 house. And sometimes in the basement. I'd use salt on the sidewalk slugs, but the basement ones I had to pick up with a paper towel and throw outside."
"I think this was just a plain gray one. I got a piece of toilet paper and shoved it in the toilet and flushed. Good thing I didn't sit down on it in the dark!"
"Yeah!"
"In shock, I might have stumbled trying to get up, and gouged my eye out on that door latch!"
I suppose one slug in the three years he's lived there is not too bad. I know slugs are just like snails without shells, but they repulse me! Except those cartoon slugs in the movie "Flushed Away," which The Pony reminded me about. We must have watched it a hundred times. Those cartoon slugs sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Much cuter than the real thing, who I never heard sing a single time, heh, heh.
Not sure what Even Steven will come up with next...
Gross! In my house, in 50 years, I only saw one slug. It was on the fireplace. At least there was no chance of sitting on it with a bare behind. That one slug haunted me as I feared one would come out of the three other fireplaces. I had four fronts to monitor. Maybe he can take measures to keep more from coming in.
ReplyDeleteI don't think The Pony is having an invasion of slugs. One in three years, no need to panic and seal every entry (and exit) to his house, heh, heh! At least he doesn't have roaches or ants or rats or bats!
DeleteNor does The Pony have the millipedes we used to get occasionally in our basement here. I hated them so much. One time I made 10-year-old Genius put a glass bowl over one to keep it there until Hick got home to dispose of it. Genius swore the millipede was moving that bowl, trying to get away.
Well, I only had one in fifty years, but for many years I was convinced it was an invasion. I have had roaches here due to his negligence. I did have mice and then rats try to take over my house. I would hate bats and millipedes as much as I did rats and ants. I did not have anyone to cover pests.
DeleteMy daughter and I were terrified by camel crickets that occasionally came inside. They jumped straight at us every time. Horrors!
Ooh! I hate crickets of any kind! I don't like that jumping when I am trying to MURDER them!
DeleteOur neighbor's daughter in a different city had an infestation of bats in her attic. She could not use an exterminator to get rid of them, because they were a protected species! Not sure what she was expected to do. Leave the house and declare it a loss, or a bat sanctuary? Or live in it, exposing herself to health hazards from the bats?
I give a big UGH to slugs too, though I know they are just "homeless snails". I rarely see any these days, it's just too dry outside for them I think, probably I'll see a few later in autumn, or more likely early spring. We're in for a stinker of a week, with most days being 36C-37C (96-99F), summer just doesn't want to let go it seems.
ReplyDeleteYour summer, and our winter, out-staying their welcome!
DeletePoor Pony. I hate slugs too. We had them in our house in Florida. They were not uncommon I guess since it is a humid & swampy environment. And it was a fairly new home too! I wad so glad to leave that place. I hope Pony gets a break from Even Stevens.
ReplyDeleteMy $17,000 house was on a hillside, so the water ran down, and the basement sometimes flooded a few inches. We had a sump pump, but there was a door to the outside with steps going down to it. I'm guessing the slugs got in under that door. It was an old house, built before the 1920s. The Pony's house is about 4 blocks away, though on a different hill. I'm guessing his slug came in through his pipes.
DeleteAlso, there was an old cistern at the back door of my house, concreted over. Definitely a lot of moisture there to entice the slugs.
In my yard there were slugs. The worst thing was scooping up a slug in the toe or side of my sandal and squishing it. I HATED cleaning slugs off my toes and side/bottom of my feet. Even if I stayed strictly on the steppingstone, I still managed to get slugs in my sandals.
ReplyDeleteEEEEE! I never stepped on a slug with bare feet. I much prefer the bee I stepped on in a patch of clover. It stung and itched for several days, but IT WAS NOT A SLUG! That's horrific! Apparently, you were a slug magnet...
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