Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Sometimes problems are cannibals and eat each other up

My mom was walking in our neighborhood recently when she met a neighbor who told her about the house problems she'd been having. The neighbor had noticed some marks on the wall above her fireplace mantel. She said to a contractor, "What are these? It's not water." He cut out a five foot section of her wall and found a bee hive that went the length of the fireplace. Behind it was the petrified body of a rat. Its teeth were embedded in a wire which had electrocuted it and started a fire. But the honey had put out the fire, thus saving the house.

8 comments:

JimAroo said...

This same thing happened to the mother of the sister in law of a friend of my dad's second cousin, Primo d'Aprile, from Sicily.

Rachel said...

I'm telling the truth, you know. My mom's neighbor really did tell her that.

JimAroo said...

I believe you but cousin Primo is hard to convince.

Warren said...

And then Bill Murray came up behind me, and said, "can I bum a smoke?". I said, "It's bill murray!". He said, "go ahead and tell people, they're never going to believe you".

W

:-)

P.S. That is a great story. It has to be true. Just kidding about Bill Murray though.

Rachel said...

If I were super famous I could use Murray's line all the time. :)

JimAroo said...

But with a name like Primo d'Aprile
why should we listen to him?

Linda said...

Hmmm, and they didn't experience any power loss anywhere when the rat chewed through the wire??

Rachel said...

I don't know, Linda... Jim, I totally missed your corny Italian pun the first time. :)