here, mousie mousie...

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I was walking past Big Fish, Little Fish today, during the Snow Emergency That Was Not, and I looked in the window and saw...well. A free range mouse. Just running up the slatwall, and probably the happiest mouse in existence, with warmth and a nice wall with a big hole in it, and all those bags of feed and stuff just lying about.

I wonder if he goes in at night and taunts the feeder mice with his freedom.

Comments

[jadelennox]

I realize you never said it was, I'm sorry -- I was more responding in that sense to the upstream posters who were implying that a mouse is a sign of the general grossness, but (confusingly, I realize) technically responding to you because I wanted to agree with your general assessment of the store. But mice aren't always a sign of lack of cleanliness. I have a very clean home and 4 cats, and I still have mice, periodically, because mice are very good at finding comfortable environmental niches and making a home there.

I guess what I'm saying is:

1. You (splatterhouse) are entirely right about the store; people shouldn't shop there, but
2. Contrary to some of the implications made upstream, a mouse in urban store is not inherently a sign of lack of sanitation.

[pjmorgan.livejournal.com]

Yes, an important point, because someday someone is going to see a mouse in an establishment that is respectable, but happens to have a mouse for whatever reason, and a little bit of internet message boarding could be dangerous for that business owner's livelihood. But making this point not meant to be a counterpoint to comments about this store being poorly run or necessarily relating to the posts in this thread too much.