Memo: Do not spill the popcorn bag with 10 billion kernels in the cupboard.

Bag | RACookPE

[1_Rain_Drop]

"And the number that fell in the heating duct remains unknown."

Not for long if you have mice. They will gather those kernels and hide them throughout your house.

Happened to me. Mice sneaked into my pantry when I was away for a few months and helped themselves to rice, peas, corn and 10 lbs of papaya bits. They left the bags empty. I was devastated. Well, that spring, while doing spring cleaning, I recouped all of the lost grains. Found them in piles behind books on the bookshelves, inside shoes, in unsealed boxes, in drawers... The funniest stash place was a roll of paper towels standing on end. The inside of the tube was completely filled with corn.

I gathered all I could find and placed it in a bag so that the mice could re-steal the grains. The grains for human consumption in the pantry were now placed in glass jars.

[firebrand]

The funniest stash place was a roll of paper towels standing on end. The inside of the tube was completely filled with corn.

I thought my half-used spaghetti box standing on end was safe. Turns out the mice could jump on top of the closed oatmeal cylinder next to it and pull the spaghetti out.

[Ponyexpress9790]

One Christmas my wife and I got my son an electric guitar for Christmas, bought it on line and came in its own box, my son opened it and it was packed with bubble wrap and the rest with packing peanuts,you know what happened next, peanuts all over the floor, —then the heater kicked on and sucked them into the floor return air vent, took me three hours inside and out to get them out. :(

[21twelve]

In India the farmers will pay the rat catchers something like 25 cents for each rat they get. Plus, the rat catchers get to keep any rice the rats have stored away. The main method of rat catching is to smoke out their rat holes, then dig them up to get the dead rats and the rice.

One new advance has been a smoker machine to kill the rats - $25. They are funded by micro loans. Now a rat catcher can double his take. And not only feed himself on rat meat and rice, but the wife can sell rat meat and rice.

Seriously. One quote had the guy saying something like “And now my children won’t have to be rat catchers like me. Now I can afford to send them to college.” (”College” in India is like High School to us.)

[simpson96]

back for later

[Wuli]

How about:

Don’t walk away from the coffee maker you just started, before you put the coffee carafe on it. Liquids tend to follow gravity, everywhere.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ouch. 8^)

[Hootowl]

Apropos of nothing in particular, I recollect a story from long ago about a guy who thought he’d come up with the perfect business plan. He’d raise rats and cats. He’d feed the rats to the cats, skin the cats and feed the cat corpses to the rats, and make the cat skins into cat fur coats. Pure profit! It foundered on the fact that no one was interested in cat fur coats.