I Didn't Squeak

Sarafina -"What's wrong with you? You seem unusually awake today."

Neil - "Yeah, well, this morning I walked into my living room and saw a mouse in the middle of the room. Startled me pretty good."

Sarafina - "You were scared of a little mouse?"

Neil - "I wasn't scared, I was startled. If a bear had been in the room I would've been startled by that too but that doesn't mean I'm scared of bears."

Sarafina - "You wouldn't be scared if there was a bear in your living room?"

Neil - "Fine. Bad example. If there had been a trucker hat in the middle of the room-"

Sarafina - "Did you trap him?"

Neil - "Yeah, but only after tucking my pants into my socks so that the mouse couldn't climb up my leg."

Sarafina - "What is wrong with you?!"

Neil - "But yeah, I threw a shoebox on him."

Sarafina - "ON him or OVER him?"

Neil - "Over him. I mean, I kept him alive. I then, you know, slid some cardboard underneath and carried him outside. Then tossed him off the front porch."

Sarafina - "You tossed that poor mouse?"

Neil - "I thought he'd land on all fours, you know, like a cat."

Sarafina - "What?"

Neil - "But anyway, that didn't kill him. He just kind of stumbled around. Kind of like Marty last Saturday. But then I watched him scurry into the road and get run over by a car."

Sarafina - "That's awful! Jeez. Wow. Did you like, get the body out of the road?"

Neil - "What's wrong with you? It's, er, was a mouse. Besides, there wasn't much of a body. It'd be like trying to collect a piñata after a birthday party."

Sarafina - "What is wrong with you?!"