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Oh the most vile thing just happened

246 replies

KimmyChi · 05/10/2023 21:50

Dark. Rural

Taking the wheely bin to the road (down the drive) , torch in hand

Bin lid not closed properly as it’s quite full

Pulling the bin behind me

A rat. A fucking RAT runs out of the bin, up my arm, over my shoulder and down my back.

Christ I can still feel it. I screamed like a pathetic idiot, threw the wheely bin on the floor and ran inside. The rat was running ALONGSIDE ME

Christ I’m never going outside again

OP posts:
pangolinfan · 05/10/2023 22:03

Agree - completely appalling, including the running alongside as if it was going to track you back to the house - aargh.

BarbDwyerHair · 05/10/2023 22:03

Poor thing, it was probably terrified Grin

Desdemonadryeyes · 05/10/2023 22:03

That’ll teach you to overfill your bin.

anonimoxyz · 05/10/2023 22:05

My worst nightmare! Want to give you a hug @op! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thedrownedprophet · 05/10/2023 22:06

Did the rat run into the house??? You'll have to torch it if it did

BarbDwyerHair · 05/10/2023 22:06

PimpMyFridge · 05/10/2023 21:57

Oh crikey charlie!!!
Forgive me but I loved that tail <ahem> tale and snorted my tea.
🤣🤣🤣

That was a bit cheesy 🧀

SpringboksSocks · 05/10/2023 22:06

DramaAlpaca · 05/10/2023 21:58

I've put my foot into a wellington boot which was housing a mouse once, and I screamed the place down, but OP I'm feeling faint just thinking about you and that rat. Urrgh!

I did the same once and I also screamed the place down. The mouse was quite cute though. It escaped and emerged a couple of days later in washing machine…. clean but dead.

Op you have my sympathies with this one 🍷

mumda · 05/10/2023 22:06

Can I tell you about the huge spider I tangoed with at the top of the stairs this morning. It did not want to be picked up and ran round my feet three times before running into my son's room.
I like spiders. I don't mind picking them up. They don't normally act like this one though.

Jb2182 · 05/10/2023 22:07

Oh my gosh! Are you dead!? I'd be dead! 😭 That is awful!!! I'd never be able to sleep after that! 😭

Gettingbysomehow · 05/10/2023 22:07

Haha shouldn't laugh but my cat has twice deposited a rat in my bed while I was sleeping in it. It's not a great way to be woken up.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2023 22:07

I also opened this thinking “what now?” What patheticness will I read now.

but omg op. I can feel that rat too now. That is HORRIFIC!

do what you have to do. Drink, drugs, burning the house down. Whatever it takes to erase that memory.

Reallybadidea · 05/10/2023 22:09

Fucking hell. I'm never taking the bins out again.

Boomboom22 · 05/10/2023 22:10

Omg. That must have been horrific, I don't know how you'll ever sleep again. Don't do bins in the dark ever again, preferably get a man to do them. Wish mine would, he always fucks off to work so i put them out but because he empties the inside bins maybe half the time I think he thinks he does all the bins.

Tummytroubles22 · 05/10/2023 22:10

I have worries about this shit happening everytime I take the bin down the farm track in the dark. I consoled myself with the fact it doesn’t happen. I regret opening the sorry thread and wish you well with the trauma counselling 🍷

GCAcademic · 05/10/2023 22:11

DramaAlpaca · 05/10/2023 21:58

I've put my foot into a wellington boot which was housing a mouse once, and I screamed the place down, but OP I'm feeling faint just thinking about you and that rat. Urrgh!

I once went into the garage to put on one of my wellies that I hadn’t worn for a while and discovered that I couldn’t get my foot into it. On inspection, it turned out that the foot part of the boot was jam packed with birdseed that a mouse had been diligently moving from a large packet into the boot for storage. I knew it was a mouse that had done that as we’d caught one in a trap the previous week. I felt quite guilty that all its hard work had been futile.

Boomboom22 · 05/10/2023 22:11

BTW I still then have to get to work after this. If a rat touched me I'd call in sick that day i think!!

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 05/10/2023 22:11

I honestly don't get the whole rat-fear thing. Spiders yes, but a rat, no.

Boomboom22 · 05/10/2023 22:12

But @Hungrycaterpillarsmummy have you not seen their creepy tails?

Reallybadidea · 05/10/2023 22:13

I wonder what the rat thought about the whole thing 🤔 Probably posting about it on Ratsnet right now

Zzizzisnotzeproblem · 05/10/2023 22:13

Oh @KimmyChi i would just cry and cry and cry and cry. I am so so so scared of rats.

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 05/10/2023 22:13

Jesus OP, I'd hunt that fucker down with a blow torch.

Boomboom22 · 05/10/2023 22:13

Mice can look a lot like a spider when you see them scurrying across the floor. God I hate all animals, insects etc
Love humans only!

Arrestedforit · 05/10/2023 22:15

Why in God’s name did I read this just before bed time?

I will personally blame you @KimmyChi if I dream about this tonight!

I’d struggle to go anywhere near the wheelie bin ever again. Horrible thing to happen to you.

crackofdoom · 05/10/2023 22:15

My fellow allotmenteers are probably used to blood curdling screams coming from my corner of the allotment whenever I encounter one of the resident rats in the compost bin. It's more territorial rage than revulsion though I think.

Rattyname · 05/10/2023 22:15

Oh god cats and their presents. My mum has two cats. She lost her sense of smell after Covid… you know where this is going… I went to visit and there was an awful smell, snooped around, and had to go downstairs and report “Mum, there’s a dead rat under your bed”.

I was wrong. There were two.