"There's something on my pillow!"
The frantic cry woke me out of a dead sleep. Sis and I were side by side on the air mattress in the middle of the living room in K & C's cute but old apartment. Bleary eyed and not wanting to get up at 4am, I said, "What? You're dreaming."
"There's SOMETHING on my PILLOW!" The cry came more insistently and much less sleepy the second time.
I half sat up. "Well get up and turn on the light." I still thought she was dreaming. Until I heard the skittering scurry across the floor. Suddenly I was up. "What IS that!? Turn on the light!"
Sis was up and out of bed searching in the dark without her glasses half-asleep for the light switch, on the wrong side of the room. "Other side!" I muttered.
Finally the light went on, just as I saw the black furry creature slithering into the radiator.
"It's a bat. EW!! It's a BAT!" I yelled.
"It was in my hair," she yelled. Taking a deep breath, the scream echoed in the small apartment. "KELVIN!!!"
Seconds later the frantic footsteps bounded down the steep stairs. "Where!? WHERE?" he replied. The next thirty minutes were spent taking the radiator covers off in search of the bat. Finally, he was found and my ingenius brother fashioned a little trap out of a water bottle and a sliver of cardboard. Catching the bat, he released it outside but it was awhile until we all settled into sleep, with Sis and I upstairs in the bedroom this time!
Now Sis is a little nervous about rabies but that's a whole other story!
3 comments:
This reminds me of when we were little kids. Bro & I were sleeping in the same bed and I wake up and feel something sleeping curled up on top of my eye in the hollow of my eye socket. I'm whispering and nudging, "'Red,' wake up! There's a mouse in the bed." But I don't want to move or make too much noise b/c I am afraid whatever it is is going to bite me. Terrifying. Finaly, Red wakes up, turns on the light and sees that it is my hamster. The blanket had fallen over the end of the bed, the critter had escaped (AGAIN!) and he had climbed right up the blanket into the bed. EEK.
But not nearly as much EEEKK as you guys! I would have died of a heart attack! I'm not a fan of bats ever since an incident in a bat cave in the Bahamas back in 1993.
Oh that was too much! The closest thing I had was spiders and a pincher bug. Except when I went camping. Imagine seeing a tent full of girls with a critter (never identified) scurrying around inside. From the outside it looked pretty funny.
A BAT IN YOUR HAIR SOUNDS PRETTY SCARY....LUCKILY WE DON'T HAVE TOO MANY BATS IN NEW YORK CITY. MICHAEL FROM HTTP://BETWEENTHEMOONNYC.BLOGSPOT.COM/
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