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TIFU by assuming the mouse was somewhere else

TLDR I have a family of mice in my house and today one of them got to fly across my room

I work night shift and was trying to catch some sleep after a long night at work and before I went to get a late lunch with a friend. My friend called me to check the time for lunch and woke me up but NBD, I can just pass back out for a couple hours before I have to start getting ready EXCEPT there has been a little family of mice taking shelter in my walls/ceiling and mantle. And right now one of them is making noise in the mantle again… or so I thought. I have a peppermint spray that I use in the cracks when I want the mice out of the mantle. Proven fairly effective to get the mice to stop making too much noise when I want to sleep. At this point I will also mention I have traps out for the mice (glue traps and poison baits, stfu about non lethal traps because they haven’t worked either) and apparently the mouse was not in the mantle but in the poison trap. I picked it up to make room for the peppermint spray bottle and IMMEDIATELY noticed it was super heavy as a mouse FELL OUT INTO MY HAND. Normally if this had happened when I wasnt half asleep. I would have one more mouse down, idk how many more to go. But since I wasnt fully awake I freaked out screamed and threw the mouse at the ground. My second defense against the mice (my cats) were freaked out by my scream and absolutely NO HELP. I saw the mouse run under my couch and now I am way too wide awake to go back to sleep and am terrified the mouse will crawl out of the couch and exact revenge on me at some point. Gonna be a little tired for lunch I guess.

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