Are you laughing yet?
A corner shopping center has three restaurants, one abandoned video store, and one drug store. The top-floor restaurant remodeled last fall, and the city closed the food aisles for two weekends for R.A.T.Z. Oh, ick. But everything seemed fine after that. Now the city is doing road/storm sewer work on that corner corner about two blocks from my house. I still don't eat at the restaurants, but I patronize the drug store for an occasional candy bar. Not any more.Two weeks ago, I walked into my local CVS and saw the floor was moving. They use this grey brillo-textured carpet and the moving things were baby mice. Two days after that, I went in to speak to somebody, but I couldn't stay inside. Somebody had poured naptha all over the carpet (that's what moth balls are made of, and it's not good to breathe). It also doesn't kill rodents.
All the staff was complaining of itching and skin irritation. It's the inside of their lungs I'm worried about. They were also eating in there. It can't be good.
So I wrote the Customer Complaint Center. One week later, I got an e-mail back. "Thank you for your concern in the matter of letter xyz1546. This letter has been sent by Mary Doe."
Five days after that (at least two mouse life cycles, right) I got a call from the district manager.
"I don't want you to worry," he told me. "The store will get remodeled in May, and so there's no problem."
May?!! Four to eight more weeks, and not really rodent control? I was shooting cannonball before I knew it.
"In my letter, I said you have to coordinate pest control with the other restaurants and one empty storefront in your building. Otherwise, the mice will just move and then come back.
What are your employees going to do in the meantime with all that carcinogenic naptha laying around?"
He could not get off the phone fast enough. And there I was, warming up to Hanta virus.
District Managers. I knew one good one.
Can anybody give me a big, fat Eeee-e-w/???
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