new-fangled mousetraps

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

   Because of the mouse super-highway through the threshold at the back door of our rental house (no, I am NOT stretching it) I sent DH to the store quite a while back for mousetraps.  He came back with these weird plastic things that looked like chip clips, but they were made by D-con and were, in fact, mousetraps.  They weren't as bad as the old wooden ones about "false alarms", and they were easier to clean because they were plastic, but they just didn't look like mousetraps.  Well last week our dishwasher and disposal went out and they flooded everything under the sink, so I'd pulled everything (including one of the mousetraps) out from under the kitchen sink to get it dried out.  Well, last Friday, my mom and DH decided to have a surprise b-day party for me, so mom just stuffed everything back under the sink to get it out of the way/out of sight. I thought nothing of it until the other day I opened up the veggie drawer of the fridge to see that Mom had used one of the plastic mousetraps as a clip to hold a bag of salad mix closed!!!!  The trap was NOT clean (I don't know how she missed seeing that it had peanut butter smeared on it) and I threw stuff away if I thought it might have come in contact with it because I don't want to take any chance with the nasty stuff rodents carry, but I laughed until I hurt, and then I called her to ask if a clothespin wouldn't have worked.  She argued that she'd just used the "chip clip" she'd seen lying in the floor next to the cabinets.  Anyway, we all got a good laugh out of it. 

[peternap]

 
That"s funny! You can get a lot of mileage out of it.

Maybe when you have her over to dinner next, you can get a few regular traps and use them as napkin holders.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I like it... Hmmmm...you're absolutely right, Peter...  I'm envisioning using wooden mouse traps like trivets on the table, too.

[Redoverfarm]

Good story.  Good bait as well.  If the trap doesn't get them the salmonella will.