# Twas the night before the night before....

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 22, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129 "2010-12-22T22:43:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129/1 "2010-12-22T22:43:58Z")

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Twas the night before the night before Christmas (southern hemisphere here) and all the through the house not a creature was stirring …until some bloody mouse decided to start making scampering and chewing noises in my bedroom - gah I’m already exhausted, stuffed up my day time vs night time meds and just when I’m getting to sleep some little rodent come to make my life a misery. I was really tempted to bring one of my cats in to deal with it but I know from experience thet they would be worse than the mouse.

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129/2 "2010-12-22T22:46:15Z")

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You do know that when you’re sleeping, with your mouth hanging all open, the mouse will come up and look for food in it, right? Oh well, sleep tight! 😛

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129/3 "2010-12-22T22:49:40Z")

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> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> You do know that when you’re sleeping, with your mouth hanging all open, the mouse will come up and look for food in it, right? Oh well, sleep tight! 😛

I thought they crawled under the covers looking for warm places.

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129/4 "2010-12-22T22:56:12Z")

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> [@runner pat](#):
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> I thought they crawled under the covers looking for warm places.

That’s after their tummies are full from all the little bits of food in your mouth.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twas-the-night-before-the-night-before/565129/5 "2010-12-22T23:41:22Z")

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> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> That’s after their tummies are full from all the little bits of food in your mouth.

So they’re like the birdies that clean crocodile teeth? 😃