This morning I had a close encounter with a real life bloodsucker and it nearly gave me a heartattack! Want to know what happened?
Ok, I was in my study editing some video that I shot way back in ’97 when I first visited my girlfriend Carrie in Florida. I was just making some nice scene cuts and adding a few effects, when I noticed the noise coming from my guest bedroom. It seemed as if my cats were tearing up the place or – which sounded the most logically – they were fighting each other.
So I yelled a few times in the hope they would cut it out. Since they still seemed to be jumping up and down and making lost of noises, I decided to get up and walk into the room and kick them cats out so I finally could go on editing my video in peace and quiet. And then it happend.
As I strolled into the room a little fluttering animal flew towards me when I least expectated it! it was a BAT outta hell! I wasn’t prepared for it and it almost scared me into a heartattack! You see, I live on the 4th floor (3th floor if you count the floors as we do in Europe) of an appartment building and its in the middle of town. I never have flies, bugs, mice or any kind of critters around here – except my two cats. How it got in is beyond me: it must have crawled in throught the window that was open just a bit.
Man, did it scare me! Not that I’m afraid of them (this one was just about 2 inches): I just wasn’t prepared of finding a animal in there! My cats were going nuts about it, trying to jump it and running all around the room. So that was the sound I heard. The bat itself didn’t make any noise and was just fluttering around trying to avoid the cats. As it would hang on to the ceiling (in itself an accomplisment) I tried to figure out how to get it out there. Bats are known to sometimes carry rabies and other diseases so I figured I could not just grab it.
In the meantime I got on the phone and called my sister to let her know of my close encounter. While on the phone the little bat flew in between the window and the blinds and my cats were desperately trying to attack it. Once on the window ledge it was quite helpless since the can’t walk but just crawl and slide a bit. Anyway: I figured I had to get it out quickly before my cats would hurt it.
The problem was solved quickly: when the bat was hanging from the ceiling again, I went up there, opened the window and it went out just like that!
But boy did that little sucker scare the hell outta me! I had enough exitement for this sundaymorning 🙂