omarphillips.net: That's no mouse

On Thursday, I went out to photograph a baseball game not far from home. It was an OK game, nothing spectacular. I did get a handful of decent photos (click the Flickr photos link above if you're interested, but that's not the point of this post). While I was happily shooting away, I heard a spectator next to me gasp.

"A MOUSE!" she shrieked.

Slightly startled, I took my eyes from the game to see what the fuss was about. I saw something dart into a small hole leading under the dugout. A moment later, an all too familiar face peered out at me.

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"You son of a..." I started. He ducked away in his hole. Before doing so, I'm pretty sure he also gave me the finger. It's hard to tell though, because he's got pretty small fingers. I'm working under the assumption that he did.

"Excuse me?!" the lady replied.

"No, I'm sorry. Not you. That there, that was no mouse. It was a vole."

"That wasn't a mole," she replied. "That was a mouse!"

"No, I said VOLE, with a V. Mice have bigger eyes and longer torsos and..." sensing the glaze forming over her eyes, I stopped. I tried to go back to focusing on the game, but I couldn't. Two innings later, I decided that I had lost enough of my focus. I packed up my stuff and left. I got to my car and found a hastily written note tucked under my windshield.

Omar:
Did I find a new home with way better grass than your place, or am I just following you wherever you go? Wouldn't you like to know? HahahahahahHAHAHAHAHA.

Watch your back.

Sincerely,
your worst nightmare

P.S. omarphillips.net jumped the shark back in February. You're nothing without me.

Comments

elasticwaistbandlady said:

You FOOL! The note was a cleverly disguised trap for the mouse to extract his ultimate revenge.......you touched that paper and now you're the unwitting carrier of the newly modernized strain of black plague.

The Center For Disease Control is going to hunt you down!

Viking said:

I wonder what percentage of mouse sightings would prove to be vole sightings under careful examination...

Cate said:

Looks like a mouse to me...

Jon said:

Hey, at least you made it to February… The Shuck N Jive jumped the shark approximately 22 minutes after it’s inception… not so good…

Glo said:

Look. Every superhero is only worthwhile long as there is a villain. Who is Superman without Lex Luthor? Batman without the Joker?

That's right. Just a bad sequel.

Heed the vole, man.

P.S. Stickies cracking me up.

P.P.S. Tired of haboob. If I can't look at boobs on baby magazines, I shouldn't have to type them. So says my inner Puritan.

I said:

FYI, I have adjusted the link order in the only fair way I know. It's now in order of when the blog owner first commented on my site. Hover over the names for the date.

Haboob lives!

Katie said:

"Did I find I new home..."

I'm sorry, my OCD has just come out in full swing and demands things get fixed. On that note, I think the mole, excuse me, vole is just following you around and getting in the way of your goals and work.

Jerk.

Katie, that one was my fault. The vole's note was written correctly, I just fat-fingered it. Fixed.

cadiz12 said:

i was wondering when the vole was going to make his next appearance.

i've been cool since april 20, but stripped of my gold-star status. :(

I tried that number. Thanks for making my morning...

Lianne said:

The evil rodent lurks where you least expect him.

Still laughing...

And still loving "haboob"... and by the way, Glo really shouldn't be complaining about boobs, since she flashed hers on her blog!

And down I plummet to the bottom of the list. Only Ken Jennings and Dooce are suckier than me? That sucks. Just when I felt that I had V.I.P gold member status around here too. :(

Syar said:

I'm with Glo. I think haboob has passed its prime. once, the word verification here popped up as a little red X, and after freaking out for a second I just typed in haboob and it was the right word.

what with the new vole threats and all Omar, you can't afford to be lax on any kind of security.

jasmine said:

a few things.

i love the phrase "jump the shark"

it's interesting you almost admit that someone else has better grass than you.

the vole is soooooo adorable!!!!
ahhhh!!!!!