Maybe this one belongs in the Condo living thread, but I am too tired to look so I will put it right here.

I'm surprised nobdy mentioned POISON. I'd stored some boxes of Quaker's Instant Oats breakfast and Kleenex boxes in the Condo basement storge area in SF where I used to live and couple of them got in there.

They built a mouse condo from kleenexes, and had unlimited food from the Quaker Oats packets. Great for them, disgusting for us.

Using VERY careful handling techniques VERY strong poison, placed strategically, toook care of the problem fast.

It also called into question the practice of buying in bulk in places like COSTCO and WALMART and Home Depot.

And speaking of "Home Depot" I read that they are going to open up places called "Apartment Depot". The customers will just stand around there, and talk to each other about how they never have to do anything.


On a similar note, there had been lots of talk about the San Francisco Juvenile Hall was a horror, nothing had been done there since 1947 since it was built.

I worked there a while, (This was when "New Kids on the Block" were the hot new act, you do the math) and there was LOT of talk about a bond measure to tear it down and rebuild it anew.

We used to feed a herd of feral cats in the parking lot there.

The place was described to me by a Juvenile Judge as something out of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House", that bad. I cleaned up some areas in the office where we worked on my own, noone bothered me.

Then I noticed a lump one day under the corner of the carpet in an obscure cornern. So we lifted it up.

We found the skeleton of a large mouse there. I never felt the same about that place again.

Within a year, I left...

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