# A tragedy averted, or My Wife Is The Single Biggest Wuss I've ever Known. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981 "2004-03-18T04:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/21 "2004-03-18T14:54:18Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > Well, after all she is a “mere woman.” Start running. VERY fast. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/22 "2004-03-18T15:04:55Z")
Posted by Silver Fire: > [@](#): > > […]spiders[…] WHERE?!?! _runs off_ ---
**Author:** ![Feit\_C\_Taj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/23 "2004-03-18T15:15:15Z")
I’ll remember to bring a stress ball to the studio Saturday night. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/24 "2004-03-18T15:43:13Z")
Ahh, this reminds me of mornings where I used to work. At least once a week, I’d get a page, wander to the back, and find two or three of the women staring in horror at a roach/spider/other bug. I, of course, was the designated Bug Assassain. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/25 "2004-03-18T15:51:34Z")
If the fuzzball had Neil O’Donnell’s face, you’d be screaming too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/26 "2004-03-18T15:59:51Z")
That’s very brave of you to admit, **MsRobyn**. I’ve had mice in nearly every house I’ve ever lived in. If I wasn’t so allergic I’d have a dozen cats. The worse mouse experience I had was when I was a camp counsellor, I had twelve shrieking girl-children to take swimming, and when we went in the changeroom I saw a mouse which had died in a most greusome way. There was a grate, and the thing had gone through one hole of the grate, got its ass stuck, so tried to crawl _out_ the hole _beside_ the one it had crawled into, and understandably got good and stuck. Fortunately there was another changeroom that I quickly herded my charges into. Crisis averted. Good thing that poor mouse was someone else’s responsibility … levering it out of there would have been quite a greusome task. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/27 "2004-03-18T16:22:27Z")
> [@Steelerphan](#): > > If the fuzzball had Neil O’Donnell’s face, you’d be screaming too. > > 😃 What’s the word I’m looking for? It’s right there on the tip of my tongue…oh! Now I remember! DIE! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/28 "2004-03-18T19:05:45Z")
I like to think of myself as relatively unfazeable, but this one kept me awake for a while. The first apartment I ever rented on my own was a very tiny nook in a decaying Greenwich Village building. One night I heard a noise in the kitchen and went in to investigate. I noticed the cupboard door over the stove was slightly ajar, and reached out to close it. A GIANT RAT leaped out at my face. My impression was that it was about the size of a German Shepherd, but it was able to escape under the refrigerator, so it may have been a bit smaller. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/29 "2004-03-18T19:13:08Z")
> [@Doktor Fluff](#): > > I’ll remember to bring a stress ball to the studio Saturday night. 😛 Gee, thanks! Robin ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/30 "2004-03-18T19:56:51Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > I know what she’s getting for her birthday. She’s getting a 55 gallon drum of Vagisil to treat her severe case of vagina-itis and a lifetime supply of heavy flow tampons. Friends, I have never seen a bigger wimp in my entire life. Wha? !mouse=tampons? Am I being whooshed here? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/31 "2004-03-18T20:02:56Z")
> [@Jenny Haniver](#): > > Wha? It’s a joke. Do I really have to spell it out for you? Here’s a hint: What’s another name for a wimp? It’s 5 letters and starts with P. Get it now? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/32 "2004-03-18T20:09:00Z")
[And that’s all I have to say about _THAT_.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=105865) ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/33 "2004-03-18T20:09:56Z")
Ooooooh. Oh. Wait. EWWWWWWWWWWW! (I think I’d be a hell of a lot more scared of a 55 gallon drum of Vagisil than one little ol’ mouse. That stuff’d suck all the moisture out of two counties the moment you opened it. ) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/34 "2004-03-19T01:54:54Z")
> [@Alto](#): > > My impression was that it was about the size of a German Shepherd, but it was able to escape under the refrigerator, so it may have been a bit smaller. Not necessarily. Rats are surprisingly flexible. Sorry to hear about you near-mouse experience, MsRobyn, and I must congratulate you on your self-control for not jumping up and down on Airman’s head for posting this. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/35 "2004-03-19T02:46:47Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Not necessarily. Rats are surprisingly flexible. > Sorry to hear about you near-mouse experience, MsRobyn, and I must congratulate you on your self-control for not jumping up and down on Airman’s head for posting this. Well, he hasn’t posted in a few hours. We don’t actually know that she didn’t. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/36 "2004-03-19T03:47:22Z")
Now if I was MsRobyn, well I’d look funny in a dress but, I would go out and buy the biggest rat I could and then hide in Airman’s underware drawer. In the morning he is naked and getting dressed and opens the drawer and… Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/37 "2004-03-19T03:54:41Z")
No worries. I don’t sweat her. if she gives me any crap all I have to do is tell her to get her bitch ass in the kitchen and make me some pie. You know she does it, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/38 "2004-03-19T04:46:58Z")
I was on-channel when it happened. I feel so relevant. Of course, unbeknownst to you, the ball was just a decoy - the mouse is hiding in the roof right now, planning to launch a cheese raid on your house. I’d lock up the stilton. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/39 "2004-03-19T05:09:13Z")
Heh, I remember once I was going down the dark hall and saw a long, thin _snake-like_ shadow on the floor. I froze. I knew there simply could not be a snake in my hallway. I’ve never even seen a snake down here. Besides, it wouldn’t just be calmly hanging out in my hallyway anyway, right? The whole notion was ridiculous. So just as I decided that I was being absurd (it took about 5 seconds) the goddamn thing _moved_. That was it. I ran into the living room screaming, shaking like a leaf, and crying. There were real tears in my eyes. Jaime immediately asks me what the problem was, I turned around to point out the vicious killer snake there to eat us all, and I see a pretty pink lacy ribbon that my cat is sedately trailing behind her as she walked out of the hall. Despite my acute embarassment, it took me a couple more minutes to calm down, and I still hesitated to walk down the hall that night by myself. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981/40 "2004-03-19T07:35:16Z")
> [@ms\_mom67](#): > > I am not proud of this… But about 10 years ago… Our wonderful cat at the time caught a mouse and was playing with it under the dinning room table. I have been afraid of little furry creatures ever since I was a little girl. Well I called the hubby at work( he was working at a car dealership at the time) and told him he had to come home NOW…Since he knew how I felt about this matter he was home a short time later to find me sitting up on top of the bar. While the kitty was just having a good time playing, Believe it or not have bought my childern a hamster but they know to keep it away from me… Since all that is, is a rat with no tail… I do not water it or feed it… It’s only chance of survival is the childern. This seems an appropriate time to remind folks of [Wally and the Gerbil of Death](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24442). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tragedy-averted-or-my-wife-is-the-single-biggest-wuss-ive-ever-known/234981.md?page=3)