“Slammer”

I have a new nickname. It’s “Slammer”. Anna gave it to me tonight as we found the second rat that I unknowingly slammed to death. I wrote in another post about how I slammed a rat in the bathroom door. Well, tonight when we had 3 teachers from Christ School and Pauline, our friend from Mbarara, over for dinner both Anna and I commented on “the smell of death” coming from our kitchen cabinet. After everyone left we decided to investigate and behold, a rat smushed behind one of the heavy, wooden drawers in our kitchen cabinet. It had begun to decompose…thus the lovely scent.

We can’t be sure I was the one who slammed the drawer on the rat but it’s fairly likely. When given the choice between consciously bludgeoning a rat to death and unknowingly slamming one to death, I’ll take the latter. So, I have the nickname of “Slammer” and Anna gets “Batter” since she is quite experienced at baseball bat extermination. Ahhhh yes…these are the things I don’t think I’ll ever really “get used to”.