Mouse Madness!

Here is a post that Miss Jana made on her blog a few weeks ago, regarding an amusing incident with a four legged furry creature. Be sure to watch the video at the bottom, and have your sound turned up to get the full effect!

Our crazy flower shop. There is always something interesting going on. For instance, the other day we were terrorized by this berserk mouse. He was running around in circles in the office, which meant we couldn't go in there to get work done. We erected a series of flower box barricades through the hallway to protect ourselves while we designed in the front and waited for him to take the bait on the mouse trap that we slid into the office with a broomstick and then ran away screaming. We wrapped packing tape sticky side up around a broom handle to grab orders that printed out from the computer without actually having to enter the room.

Sarah was the funniest part of the whole incident. She was afraid to look into the office because she was afraid the mouse may have gotten into some flower food that acts as a steroid that we use to keep bupleurum firm, and had turned into the Mouse King from The Nutcracker.


Luckily we have Ron, the hurly-burly biker guy who cuts hair across the street, to come and rescue us in sticky situations. He chased down the mouse and put him outside. An hour later one of our wholesalers came by with a delivery and announced that there was a mouse running circles in our parking lot.

It's actually a little sad. The little guy obviously got into something that was bad news, and I feel bad, really really bad, for laughing at him. I hope that he found a warm and quiet place to die peacefully and that he's not still out there running circles into the sunset.

Behold our centrifugally gifted rodent, and Sarah's escalating hysteria in the background.