# Rat in coffee. Woe is me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830 "2005-02-07T17:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/41 "2005-04-13T22:56:08Z")
Crazy old man upstairs in our 4 unit apartment building fed the birds to the point they ate from his hand at the widow. This brought squirrels, who he lured away by tossing peanuts into our shared back yard which brought … a rat. Ugly awful. But manageable until she had rat babies. All early summer, at dusk they would sit in a bush out back, intertwined with the chain link watching the house waiting for peanuts to fly. Finally crazy peanuts the birdman even understood and cut the off cold turkey and they disappeared by late summer. Looking out your back window and seeing a back of rats in a small tree watching you back is creee-peee. * * * In fact I have an Adams Morgan Rat story. … The second biggest rat I ever saw\* strolled out of a trash bag on the street late one night, eyed me in an insolent “FU” sort of way and strolled, not skittered or ran, into the sewer. He was about 7 inches high at the shoulder with a body sans tail of est 14 inches. HUGE. (\*no.1 was a cat sized naked tail that was too big to be “squished” by a car, more like a dead deer on the side of the road … you wonder what happened to the car) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/42 "2005-04-14T12:39:05Z")
> [@jimmmy](#): > > In fact I have an Adams Morgan Rat story. … The second biggest rat I ever saw\* strolled out of a trash bag on the street late one night, eyed me in an insolent “FU” sort of way and strolled, not skittered or ran, into the sewer. He was about 7 inches high at the shoulder with a body sans tail of est 14 inches. HUGE. > > (\*no.1 was a cat sized naked tail that was too big to be “squished” by a car, more like a dead deer on the side of the road … you wonder what happened to the car) There is a special name for that kind of rat: “opossum”. :rolleyes: **jimmmy** , you’re “special” too… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/43 "2005-04-14T12:45:15Z")
> [@jimmmy](#): > > Looking out your back window and seeing a back of rats in a small tree watching you back is creee-peee. I dunno, sounds kinda neat to me but those are wild rats, right? Wood rats? Roof rats? Sewer rats? Then maybe not so interesting… ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/44 "2005-04-14T12:56:17Z")
It’s almost summer. You should switch to miced tea. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/45 "2005-04-14T13:01:28Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > There is a special name for that kind of rat: “opossum”. :rolleyes: > > **jimmmy** , you’re “special” too… :rolleyes: I suspect your identification is correct, but why be snotty and insulting about it? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/46 "2005-04-14T13:38:21Z")
I miss my ratties. ☹ I had five of the little buggers, but developed a really nasty allergy to them. Once they passed on, I couldn’t buy any more. They’re good little pets. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/47 "2005-04-14T14:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > There is a special name for that kind of rat: “opossum”. :rolleyes: > > **jimmmy** , you’re “special” too… :rolleyes: **Bosda** , play nice in this forum. You’ve been here long enough to know better. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/48 "2005-04-14T14:41:36Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > **Bosda** , play nice in this forum. You’ve been here long enough to know better. > > **Cajun Man** > for the SDMB My apologies to my fellow Dopers. I guess I was a bit sharp in my speech. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/49 "2005-04-14T15:53:52Z")
“You’d never guess! There was a rat… _in_ the percolator!” \ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/50 "2005-04-14T18:29:59Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > It’s almost summer. You should switch to miced tea. For some reason I find the phrase “miced tea” hilariously funny. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/51 "2005-04-15T00:52:26Z")
He went for a dip. Disrespect for your java. The cheese stands alone. 😃 Cartooniverse [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830.md?page=2)