At least I felt loved

**Be forewarned. This story is kind of gross, so only read at your own risk! **

Last night shortly after I came home from work, my land-lady came to the door and asked if I wanted to make some money. But she quickly kept going and said that I should know what she wanted me to do. "How are you with dead animals?" she asked.

Lovely! Well, I really haven't dealt too much with dead animals, but if the price is right I will!

So I responded, "Weeellll, what is up?"

On our land-lord's property there is another house that they own and the lady renting that house found a dead animal underneath her bathroom cabinets. She was going to call a "dead animal specialist" to deal with it, but wanted to ask if I wanted to give it a try. So I decided to at least take a look, but I wanted to eat my dinner first!

So after dinner I went down to the house to take a look. After entering the house you could smell that something definitely had died. Great! Mary Jane (the lady who lives in the house), said that it had taken her a long time to figure out where the smell had come from and that she wasn't sure what it was - she thought either a rat or a gopher.

Underneath her bathroom sink/counter there was an opening in the wood which then opened up into the cavity inbetween the cabinets. Sure enough there was a dead rat about a 18 inches back, and it had been dead for quite some time (at least a week or two, but I am not a student of decomposing rodents). Yes, exactly what I wanted to do after dinner! Well, it looked as if I would be able to get this thing out. Mary Jane gave me a garbage bag and a couple of grocery bags, and promptly made sure she left the house!

I reached into a grocery bag with my hand and then reached into the cavity and grabbed all that I could. As I was pulling out my hand the wood surrounding the space folded the bag back over and I was able to then place the rat into the garbage bag without really seeing anything. It took me a couple of times to get all that I could out of the cavity, but overall I was able to remediate almost all of the remains.

Mary Jane and my land-lady were very grateful that I was willing to do this, but all I could think was that it was a fairly easy $50!

It wasn't more than a couple of minutes when there was more knocking at my door. It was Mary Jane and in coincidentally similar fashion to the words my land-landy said at the beginning of this episode she said, "How are you with live animals?"

I had to laugh. She looked really frazzled, she was freaked out by the fact that there was a dead rat in her house, now there was something living in there as well! So we found something to trap whatever it was and we would then decide what to do with it after we caught it. By the time I got down there with my "trap" we could not find "the living creature" anywhere. So I left and didn't hear from Mary Jane for the rest of the night so I am assuming that she didn't see it again either. How much sleep she got last night I am not sure!

They were going to call an exterminator to set some traps so hopefully my services won't be called on again in the near future. But for the time being it was nice to feel appreciated and to fulfill my "manly duties".

Now enjoy your breakfast, lunch or dinner!