Here is my attempt at using this intriguing format:
Unfortunately I unwittingly brought a mouse home in my school bag on the last day before Christmas break. (Is there such a word as "wittingly" so that one could do the opposite of "unwittingly" doing something --- not bring home a mouse, of course!) Fortunately it didn't show itself during the hours I spent wrapping gifts sitting on the floor in the upstairs bedroom (where I put my school gift bag). Unfortunately when I moved the bag after Christmas it ran out and scared the holy-not-a-nice-word out of me. Fortunately it nibbled on my Christmas chocolate so I was not in the least tempted to nibble on it myself. Unfortunately it's the smartest doggone mouse on the planet and has evaded all attempts to catch it. Fortunately I had a few weeks where I saw no evidence of the blasted thing, and thought perhaps it had vacated the premises. Unfortunately it was BAAAAAACK, making noise in a closet or behind a dresser at 1:15 a.m. last night. Fortunately I have several sticky traps and have moved them all to within mere feet of where I think it may be stealthily sequestered. Unfortunately when searching other bedrooms upstairs I found "evidence" in each of them and I don't think it's old evidence because it would have been vacuumed up. Fortunately it hasn't made its way down the stairs to the main floor and kitchen. Unfortunately I have trouble sleeping thinking that it's up there on the same floor (or in the very room where I am seeking to simple slumber) with me. Fortunately a student offered to loan me his cat for a month or a year (yes, really, he says a month but mom extended a more open-ended offer). Unfortunately I cannot convince my husband that a cat is a viable solution—he thinks it's better to have a mouse. Fortunately a custodian at school suggested a means to get the pesky intruder: put out a small shallow dish of Coke because it will come and drink it and then won't be able to expel the gas in it and will explode???? (This sounds like a rejected idea for Myth Busters!) Unfortunately exploding mouse is not a vision I can remotely handle. Fortunately I've put peanut butter on my sticky traps (inhumane, I know) in hopes of luring the small rodent to imbibe in a special snack. Unfortunately after 8 hours I've had no luck with my peanut-buttery plans of entrapment. Fortunately I am an eternal optimist—believing that one day success will be mine! Unfortunately today doesn't seem to be that day. Fortunately there's always that cat...perhaps when my husband next travels on a business trip...
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3/24/2017 07:11:10 pm
I love your story in the fortunately, unfortunately form. I hope the mouse finds it way out soon.
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I love that format. I encountered it today in Instructional Coaching training as a way to share a coaching story. Your mouse story is adorable...please don't think I'm insensitive to your disgust with rodents. I get rats brought in by my cat, which are usually dead. There was that one time I went to put an exceptionally large one in the dust pan and it started running across the kitchen floor......
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Vanessa Worrell
3/24/2017 08:44:01 pm
This made me chuckle! I thought I was the only one that once brought a mouse home in my purse! I worked at a rural school and had chocolate in my purse. Opened my purse at Penney's to pay for an order and he ran out of my purse on to the cash register. The startled cashier asked if it was my pet! lol.. ugh
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3/25/2017 02:52:01 am
reminds me of "I've got some good news and some bad news" -- and an old joke about breaking bad news to someone in steps.
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Lisa
3/25/2017 11:44:11 am
Thanks so much for your comments!! Oh my - Laura and Vanessa W - your stories made my heart clutch up and skip a beat at the very thought.....
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3/25/2017 08:45:32 pm
Great Slice. I love the format of this! I am really hoping you catch that mouse soon!
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