Comments on: Rats! http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/09/rats/ Peace, Justice and Hockey Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Steve http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/09/rats/#comment-17753 Steve Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:22:10 +0000 http://morehockeylesswar.org/?p=433#comment-17753 Some of the "best" stuff never made the list. For a while before we knew there was a rat problem, the peanut butter grinder was getting hit... you know the little bit of PB that's left coming out of the spout? Every morning, there were little teeth marks there. They bulk manager started putting foil over it. Eventually, they had to empty it every night... big hassle. (I think this was just "background" activity that occurred some time before the great infestation of '96.) Another pre-infestation sighting, during a period when they were using poison bait, a customer told me he wasn't sure, maybe it was a cat (we had a store cat, Pooter), but he thought he saw a rat in produce. So I trooped out there with a box, and found a very groggy, very large rat schlumping around the produce floor. Then once, they were cutting a panel off one of the produce table to create storage space beneath. We found a pile, probably two feet in diameter, peaking out at around six inches, of empty Nectar Nugget wrappers. (Nectar Nuggets are fancy peanut butter cups with caramel.) There were hundreds of wrappers. Hey, but it was worth it! I must have been making six or seven bucks an hour! Some of the “best” stuff never made the list. For a while before we knew there was a rat problem, the peanut butter grinder was getting hit… you know the little bit of PB that’s left coming out of the spout? Every morning, there were little teeth marks there. They bulk manager started putting foil over it. Eventually, they had to empty it every night… big hassle. (I think this was just “background” activity that occurred some time before the great infestation of ‘96.)

Another pre-infestation sighting, during a period when they were using poison bait, a customer told me he wasn’t sure, maybe it was a cat (we had a store cat, Pooter), but he thought he saw a rat in produce.

So I trooped out there with a box, and found a very groggy, very large rat schlumping around the produce floor.

Then once, they were cutting a panel off one of the produce table to create storage space beneath. We found a pile, probably two feet in diameter, peaking out at around six inches, of empty Nectar Nugget wrappers. (Nectar Nuggets are fancy peanut butter cups with caramel.) There were hundreds of wrappers.

Hey, but it was worth it! I must have been making six or seven bucks an hour!

]]> By: Wacky Mommy http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/09/rats/#comment-17751 Wacky Mommy Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:17:02 +0000 http://morehockeylesswar.org/?p=433#comment-17751 My favorite line was: "Killed by a totally traumatized pg manager with a shovel. Couldn’t find the valium in the medicine cabinet either." My favorite line was: “Killed by a totally traumatized pg manager with a shovel. Couldn’t find the valium in the medicine cabinet either.”

]]> By: Lelo http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/09/rats/#comment-17750 Lelo Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:09:56 +0000 http://morehockeylesswar.org/?p=433#comment-17750 Love this so much it hurts. I think life is more interesting with lists. And I encourage more of them. Like, lists of my dog getting into the cat litter box. Lists about e mails that make me laugh out loud. Life is better with lists. That should be a bumper sticker. Rats! Love this so much it hurts. I think life is more interesting with lists. And I encourage more of them. Like, lists of my dog getting into the cat litter box. Lists about e mails that make me laugh out loud. Life is better with lists. That should be a bumper sticker.
Rats!

]]> By: Wacky Mommy http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/09/rats/#comment-17732 Wacky Mommy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:14:20 +0000 http://morehockeylesswar.org/?p=433#comment-17732 This is one of my favorite "lists" ever. This is one of my favorite “lists” ever.

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