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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:59 pm
We've had them for awhile, I'm the one who saw them for the first time. Luckily for me I'm not afraid of mice as long as they don't sneak upon me, I actually tried to catch the first one so I could take it to a field (though it would've just come back later.) Our stores recently built on a former field and our stockroom with all its boxes and broken containers of food and stored bedspreads and pillows make a great home for them. So of course they've bred and we've stumbled on whole families since then.
They haven't been much of a problem until recently. They mostly stuck to the store room or came out at night. Now they're nibbling on food boxes on the sales floor and getting braver about coming out when there are customers. The other day I saw one go running past in the middle of the afternoon, right past the feet of 2 ladies talking. One caught it out of the corner of her eye and looked around for it, but it'd run under a shelf by then. When her friend asked what she was looking at she said she thought she saw a ball role by. I had to turn around real quick to hide a laugh. If she thinks it's a stray ball I'm certainly not going to correct her.
I don't mind them in the store, until they start leaving droppings I have to clean up or explain to customers or one shows up dead. They don't scare me, but a dead one still grosses me out to no end. Traumatic childhood memories thanks to my cousins cats. Uhg, I can just imagine a customer bringing home a bedspread and pulling it out only to have a dead mouse roll out from inside. That is not a return I would want to do, I know plenty of people who would bring the corpse back along with the blanket just to be an a$$. *shudder*
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:37 am
That's...uh...not good. xd Are you guys doing anything to get rid of them?
I can just see someone freaking out and trying to jump on a shelf, knocking everything all over the place in the process.
We live near a field, so the occasional mouse isn't much of a shock. Sure as heck scared the crap out of my aunt though. One was brave enough to walk out while she was there. My aunt freaked. She screamed bloody murder and tried to jump on the counter, nearly knocking me in the trash can in the process. Luckily, it'd just been changed. xd
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:06 pm
There's not a whole lot we can do. The very first time I saw one the old assistant manager called an exterminator but he basically laughed at her. Even if we got the clearence and money from corporate to gas the place we'd just get more. The areas still under construction, like I said it used to be a field, so it's really our own fault for digging up their homes.
The manager brought some old fashioned traps in but our staff of 30 something only includes 3 guys. Needless to say the girls all freaked at the very idea of running into a mouse in a trap, better to let them stay in hiding.
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