I am fascinated by bats. I find this particular image strangely distressing:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chiromm.html
Maybe because it looks so much like a human skeleton... with bird parts and some really exaggerated features.
I had a bat in my house once. I don't know where it came from, but it was perched on the curtain rod, hanging upside down quite comfortably. The cat (Katherine, The Pillow Who Ate) was last seen diving under the sofa. The bat took off and flew around the house. I called Animal Control, but of course by the time they got there, the bat was gone. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. "Well, ma'am, if you see that bat again, you just give us another call."
Two days later there was a bat in the tub. I set Indoor Backwards Naked Running records getting out of there. I called Animal Control, and guess who showed up. Of course: the same two guys.
"Um, where did you think you saw the bat this time, ma'am?"
I pointed to the door.
"Oh, I guess he thought it was a BATroom! Har har har!"
Um, yes, well, would you please get him out?
Two men into the bathroom. Door closes. Sound of two men trying to get out of bathroom.
Finally they pulled on the door instead of pushing it.
"Um, ma'am, do you have a Cool Whip bowl?"
What are they going to do, serve dessert?
Bowl to men, back into bathroom. Small voice asking, "Um, ma'am, do you have a lid for this bowl?"
Door opens, lid goes in.
Two men come out with bowl full of bat.
When they told me to call them again if I saw another bat, they were not nudging or winking.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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Holy Skeleton, Batman!
