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All I have to say is that at my house for as long as I can remember, my family have been big practical jokers, and if you are anywhere around us, you were fair game. This has followed me into adulthood where I have taken the greatest pleasure in playing jokes on my wife and daughter. We have had some real hum-dingers, but there haven’t been any as funny as the one tonight in a long time….

Lately, we have had a mouse visiting our apartment. Just a little field mouse, but, as you can imagine, with 2 women in the house, they have been twigged about the little critter being around. Yesterday my wife found that there was a little hole chewed in the catfood bag in the cupboard underneath the sink. I made mental note of that and today while shopping I picked up a couple mouse traps (the regular kind) and set it up under the sink this evening.

Lo and behold, a few minutes ago my wife came in to get me because she heard the tell tail “snap”. I opened up the cupboard door and found the mouse, just as you might expect. The funny part starts here though. My wife went and told my daughter and asked her if she wanted to see the mouse. My daughter said that was gross. Well, I just happened to spy the cat toy in the hallway, which is a little mouse shaped catnip bag, and a plan quickly hatched.

I grabbed the cat toy and stuck it in the spare mouse trap, opened my daughters bedroom door, took a step in and tossed the whole shebang on her lap. You should have heard the screams. It could have woken the dead. The only thing louder than that was the sound of hysterical laughter afterward.

Gotcha! 🙂