The New Office Pet

We have a small mouse problem here in the office. And I mean they're tiny. They leave biggish droppings and seem to eat a lot of people's food, but the mice themselves are very small. How do I know this, you ask?

Well, last night I saw a little itty bitty one climbing out of my officemate's trash can. It kinda freaked me out. I had to work late cuz I'm working on a project I can't work on during the day. But I sure was ready to head home once I saw that I had a late night companion.

Then this morning while working quietly at my computer, I heard a noise over by my desk. I thought maybe the noise was coming from the hallway but no, there was a tiny mouse caught inside the hurricane lamp on my desk. It must've fallen in and couldn't climb out the smooth glass sides. I quickly enlisted the aid of my friends. They placed the lid of a spindle of CD-Rs at the top of the lamp and slid the mouse out into the upside-down lid and put a shoebox lid on top of it, cuz those suckers can really jump!

So now they have a new office pet next door. I don't know what they're going to do with it but they've punched holes in the shoebox lid and I heard talk of feeding it and releasing it in the park. I was just going to toss it out the window.