FRELLING BATS
Last night I heard this odd sound that I THOUGHT was a kitten batting (NO pun intended) at the door to my bedroom. So, I opened the door and see….nothing. No cat. No kittens. “Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeat” I thought to myself. So, I looked further into the hall and down through the open foyer.
What did I see you ask? A fluttering, frelling bat. I hate the suckers (nope, NO pun there either).
I closed my door and tried to ignore the bat, because I was NOT in the mood and Ben wasn’t home to get rid of it.
I soon heard a scratching at my door. I looked. Yes, I LOOKED!!! STUPID, STUPID MOVE. You know, kind of like the girl/guy in a horror flick who runs UPSTAIRS when she’s trying to get away from the killer. STUPID.
My eyes were met with a furry little ball of evil, trying to claw it’s way into my room using the space at the top of my door. Yeah. I freaked.
I never moved so fast in my life. I ran to the corner of my room to grab the broom I had used earlier that day. I looked like a lunatic at this point, because I was beating my door with a broom handle, screaming like I’m Zena freakin’ Warrior Princess. I freaked out even more when I realized that the banging I was doing was only making that furry brown-bat-butt bounce more into my room.
I decided I needed an alternate plan of action. I armed myself..with my hoodie and a robe (to provide adequate padding between me and the bat). Then, I ran across the hall to get the light switch, with the intent that it would hopefully keep the bat from flying back into the hallway.
I began the task of waking up Paul. That child is dead to the world once he falls asleep. I succeeded after the fifth try, which was lucky for him, since I was starting to formulate a plan to wake him up that involved cold water and a bucket. I had him take the kittens and the mommy cat into his room, and then turn off the hall light once I closed my door.
I went back into my room, carefully avoiding the part of the door with the bat, and stood guard over that door for almost 30 minutes afterwards. The whole time I could hear the bat plotting it’s evil scheme to get into my room.
Cue the door across the hall. Oh CRAP. It was my 3 yr old. I opened my door and ushered her in quickly. When I looked up on the door where the bat was, I just saw empty space. I was naive and assumed the bat abandoned it’s evil plan to take over the world. Uh, I mean it’s plan to come into my room. I was sadly mistaken.
I finally saw where my ol’ batty friend had gone to. He attatched himself to the door frame about 2 feet above my head. EWWW. I closed the door, ran for my bed, and got under the covers with my daughter.
The bat ended up staying right there until Ben came home. He was carefully scooped up and tossed out into the night. MY HERO.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Ooh I really dislike bats! We have them around our house too and they fly around at night at the front of our door. If we get home late I run like a crazy women from my car to the house.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:46 am
So creepy and thank goodness for Ben!
May 27th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I would have called Hubby home from work! I am terrified of anything that flies. Seriously-parakeets skeev me out-I would have had a panic attack!
May 27th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Saying hiya from SITS!! Oh, goodness! That must have be frightening! I’ve never had a bat in our house, but once when I was very little we had I swear a GIANT mouse in our house. I remember being up on a table (because it was running all about around the floor) although I was more curious than frightened…lol…I would imagine though that that wasn’t as fighting as having a real live BAT in the house. I think if I saw one of those I’d head for the hills faster than a speeding bullet….
May 27th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Stopping by from SITS to say hi. Bats are ICKY! But I think I hate rats and mice more. Down with bats, rats and mice!
May 27th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Oooooh that gave me goosebumps!!
Congrats on your SITS day!
May 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Ewww! That scenario is so funny!
May 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Yikes…pretty scray.
glad you got rid of it
May 27th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Happy SITS day!
May 27th, 2009 at 7:42 am
YIKES! I wouldn’t even know how to begin to get a bat out of my house.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I’d have to move. Seriously. I don’t do bats.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Funny story….
Congratulations on your day in the SITS sun!
Have a most beautiful day.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:42 am
My heart was racing at the thought of it.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I’ve tried to get rid of a bat before. It’s tough work! Glad your hero came to your rescue.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am
That is too funny. I hate bats and rats and spiders and snakes…
May 27th, 2009 at 8:48 am
So funny! Congrats on being queen SITSa today! I have a similar story, only my hubby WAS home & thought I was hysterical, so instead of helping me, he videotaped it!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Bats totally creep me out… you were a brave mama getting all your kids to safety
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Happy SITS FB day!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I would not have slept at all if that was me! Scary!!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:56 am
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW!
Oh, and EW!
I hate bats! I would have been frozen in fear, stuck in one spot until my husband got home so you’re a far braver woman then I am!
Stopping by from SITS to say hi! Happy SITS Day!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Happy SITS day. I would have been more than terrified. Bats are soooo creepy. My friend had the same experience…weird.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I love bats in caves…but not in my house, ewwww! Glad your hero came to rescue you
Jamie
May 27th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I love your armament of a hoodie and a robe. I don’t think I would have come up with much better! This whole post gave me the willies!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Oh My goodness! I’m glad it was you not me!
We have bats where I live and they will swoop down kind of close to you if you’re outside at dusk.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I would have FLIPPED out!!! I think I would’ve been up all night, afraid it would attack me if I slept!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
OOHHH!!! GROSS!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
ICK! I totally remember a bat getting in our house when I was little and my Dad chasing it around with a broom wearing a bowl to protect his head. Good thing you had a hero! Happy SITS day!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Ah!!!
How alarming.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Bats in the house, eek! They are hard to get out. On the plus side they eat mosquitoes and other insects.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, I hate bats!!! Now I have a creepy shivery feeling…..
May 27th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Oh I just HATE bats!! I had them in my basement at my old house all the time. GROSS!!!
May 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Ewww! I would have left! LOL!
May 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Yikes! I hate creepy bats!!! Funny story :0
Happy sits!
May 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
wow thats a freaky story, question? how does a bat get into one’s house. that kinda freaks me out, am i prone to be a bat victim?
May 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
omg I’d die. I die when I see a spidey!! ick
Happy SITS Day!!
May 27th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Oh, you poor thing. That’s a horror film alright
May 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Ew!! What an adventure you had!! I think I would freak with a bat at my door.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Oh man… that’s too bad! I kinda dig bats. Here in Austin we’re all bat-crazy. We have the largest urban bat population in the world (or maybe just North America, I can never remember). We go downtown to watch them leave their under-the-bridge home at dusk in the millions. I say “we,” but really I just mean the tourists. I’ve gone a couple of times and get bored after the first million have left the roost…
May 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hey from sitsgirls….I don’t mind bats sooo much because they eat a whole lot of bugs…but I certainly don’t want them as room mates!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I have bats too but I am in my barn by the time they come out. I have not seen one in my barn. I am not sure they would bother me though as I am not a bug.
Maybe I could sick one on Abby…hmmmm.
Happy SITS day!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Wow! I could never have survived that. I would have probably just fainted. Happy SITs day!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Happy SITS Day!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I hate those freaking things about as much as I hate scorpions!
Visiting from SITS!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Visiting from SITS. What a story, I just had a bird in my furnace, but a bat in the house would be much worse.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Creepy. Bats are so weird. Chills.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Bats totally freak me out. Congrats on the SITS day.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
the whole bat in the hair thing makes me paranoid – goes back to my childhood at the bungalow!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Gross!
May 27th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
eeewwwww!!!! that’s crazy!!!
May 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
That sounds about like what I would be doing. Only mine would probably involve screaming. Ew that gives me the shudders just thinking about it.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I’ve never come in contact with a bat before. Thank goodness. Funny post.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Holy. Freaking. CRAP! you are my hero. Because I would have run screaming from the house and then burned it to the ground.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
B-l-e-h… e-e-ew-w-w-w!
I just got full body shivers.
I don’t mind bats too much – I think their interesting critters in fact, but I strongly feel that they should remain OUTSIDE!
May 27th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Uggghhhh. I’ve got a serious case of goosebumps going here. I once encountered a baby bat outside my apartment door and when I called animal control, they told me I could either put it back up into its nest (I DON’T THINK SO) or put it in a plastic bag until it suffocated. Again, no thanks. I knocked on a neighbor’s door and he put it back in the nest for me. {Shiver}
I’m from Maine, by the way! No place else like it. Happy SITS Day!
May 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Disgusting. I would have died.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
GROSS! Thank goodness for great husbands who save the day!
May 27th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
funny!!
Visiting from SITS
May 27th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
OMG! I would have died…and called 911. Or maybe not that but something.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Ewwwwww!!!! I think I would have crawled into bed with my boy and waited for hubby to come home. But I LOVE that you took the time to bundle up with padding! Happy Sits day!
May 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
How awful! Bats are the creepiest.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
You are my hero because I can’t believe you looked!
May 27th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
wow i don’t think i’ve even seen a bat?
May 27th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Oh my word… I would so freak out! love your blog
May 27th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Hmmm… I’ve never had a bat encounter, and I think I’m grateful for that. Your poor daughter though!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Awe… poor little bat. He was probably scared. It is a good thing I didn’t have one and try to wake up my son. He’d want to keep it for a pet.
They are really kinda cute, don’t you think? LOL!
Stopping by for your SITs day. Hope it has been a fun one!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Eww!! I would of done the same! Hidden!!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Woah, yes a bat would freak me out too!
May 27th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Eeewwww, bats! How horrible, I’m glad my sweetie and I have a “You take care of all the creepy things clause” I would’ve done the same thing you did, hide and wait! LOL
May 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
So funny!! I freak out around bats too.
Kimberly
May 27th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Stopping by from SITS!
I would have called my husband to come home immediately to take care of it. Yuck!
Hope you had a great SITS day!
May 27th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
You did mor ethan I would’ve. I would’ve called the police, a priest, SOMEBODY! Lol.
Happy SITS day!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I HATE BATS! My grandmother was a country girl and when a bat would fly into her attic or around the trees at night, I was terrified. They never even phased her…tough as nails. I think I got left out of that gene.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:44 am
YUUAARGHKKK! Bats are bad enough outside in trees. NOT IN MY HOUSE! I feel for you.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Oh my gosh. I would have curled up in a ball and cried! Nasty! Sorry I’m a day late from SITS. Thanks for the good laugh.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:55 am
oh my gosh. I would have freaked the freak out. I don’t even think I would have been brave enough to go for the broom!