Kevin and I are returning home at about 9:15 pm last night after a lovely dinner party at a friend's house. We walk into our apartment and, as I am turning on the kitchen light, a bat comes swooping out of the living room and flies right at me. Being the panicker that I am (hey, I don't deny it), I start screaming so loudly that our landlord (also named Kevin) comes up the stairs to see what murderous criminal has taken me hostage. Next thing I know, the two Kevins are in our bedroom swinging tennis rackets around at the bat. In the end, the bat was whacked just hard enough to stun it, had a trash can placed over it, and was taken outside via a piece of cardboard slid under the trash can. Good-bye bat!
Kev goes to bed, I am up late watching the Olympics (what else), when what should come swooping in behind me? ANOTHER BAT. At this point, I have completely lost my sense of humor when it comes to having bats flying around wily-nily in my house. After much terrified (and truly unnecessary) screaming on my part, Kev comes out and we repeat the racket procedure. Sadly, this bat was hit a bit too vigorously and we are not sure it survived. We took it outside anyway and hope it eventually woke up and flew away (although not back into our apartment, of course). If not, RIP little guy and I hope none of your bat compadres stop by tonight.
By the way, let's all remember that there is a post from almost exactly one year ago recounting our hilarious middle-of-the-night encounter with another bat. Apparently, this is an annual thing with these guys. Or maybe it was the same bat from last summer, and he just missed us. Awww. But, also, ewww.
P.S. - The proper procedure for getting rid of a bat in your house (according to something I read online), is to trap it in one room until it gets tired enough that you can put a trash can or box over it, and then take it outside with a piece of cardboard. Or, we are supposed to gently trap it in a butterfly net which, of course, we all just happen to have lying handily around. Nowhere is there any mention of tennis rackets. Whoops.
oh my god tam. i remember last year's bat episode as if it were YESTERDAY! from afar, it was hilarious, just as this year's episode is. i'm laughing out loud and my co-workers are wondering why. i cannot imagine anything more terrifying in my apartment than a bat - except perhaps something larger, like a boar. yikes!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteStupid bats.
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