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Rat Escapades Part 1

May 16, 2008 on 3:59 pm | In Just Stuff |

Ok. So here’s the update on the rat. It escaped from the confines of the room by getting inside one of the woofer speakers and sitting there very quietly and happily. So far, it had tossed the bread I had kept aside for it(generously topped with rat poison of course) very contemptuously. The bread was in one corner and the rat poison was strewn around everywhere. No sign of any dead rat. Because of course it was sitting inside the speaker.

When the speaker came outside into the hall, it had escaped into the hall without our notice. We thought that it had either died or ran outside the house when the doors had been open. A couple of nights ago, Tuesday night to be precise…I was alone in the house. Sab had gone with ammi and Mansoor had gone to the restaurant.(He runs a small fast food restaurant in BTM Layout, our erstwhile neighbourhood).

At eight pm, the house was quiet and I stepped out of my room bored. There was no TV yet. Bang opposite my room is a small wash basin and I heard some rustling sounds coming from there. I shut my bedroom door and then quickly took a stick and pushed it behind the wash basin. Nothing happened. I peered around but theres not much space to peer as there’s a wall next to the wash basin. I saw a black tail hanging out from behind the wash basin. Horrified I poked the stick at the tail and the rat ran outside and scrambled madly before hiding behind a cupboard that we have kept in the hall.

My heart was racing as I dumped Az on the sofa and came to see behind the cupboard. There was a small gap between the cupboard and the wall. You know, when you’re looking for a rat, you do tend to look down right? That’s what I did. No rat there. The, purely by chance I lifted my eyes. What do you think I saw there?

Yes…a little like in this picture, the rat was actually spreadeagled between the wall and the cupboard while he looked straight ahead, hoping I would not spot him. What a moment that was!!!! I still feel prickly when I think of that!!! I didn’t know whether to stand there amazed, or to chase it again or to take a picture. I regret not taking a picture! I shooed it with the stick and it slithered and ran all the way down and disappeared.

We had no idea where it had disappeared after that. I was hoping it would have run off outside the house. Read the next post and you will know that I was wrong!!!:D