I would like to talk about all the other royal creatures that lived in the house along with us three roommates. Yes, I should say this .... and it is not any bit of sarcasm or hype. You would conclude that by the end of this part.
I should first talk about the policeman for our house who was never salaried. The BIG fur CAT!!!! He always sat in front of the house. Awaiting to enter the house. It probably loved my kiddo roommate a lot because, every time she wanted to go out, it always sat there to greet her. She would run inside the house seeing the cat. I was not any brave though :P I am dead scared of dogs and cats. There was once when my roommate and I were dropped off at home late in the night by a common friend. When we were about to enter the house, our prompt friend was greeting us with his meows. So we wanted to enter the house from the back entrance. He did not leave us. He was coming along with us where ever we went. If we walk slowly, he would walk slowly. If we ran he ran too ... :) And finally we had to call our friend back to chase the cat. In the night times, if we kept the door open with the mesh door closed, it would try to stand taking the support of the mesh door. The paws of the cat on the mesh door used to be scary .... and it's eyes were green and glowing to add to the horrification ....
Now coming to the second creature that lived around us. My kiddo roommate and I slept in the living room. Every night I used to hear some chirping sound. I used ask her ..." Do you think it is some rat?". She would say ... " I don't know ... Hope not". She was scared too ... but we could not figure out what that was until a month after we moved in. I came home in the evening once and my roommate told me " Hey we saw your rats ... it's not rat .. it's a bird or a bat I guess".
WHAT??!! Bird or a BAT. She said .. "It is black and has big wings ... so .. " .... " Don't worry I shooed it from our house ... Hopefully you won't hear anymore sounds tonight". But, there was no change ... I could hear the same sounds again. I asked my roommate ... "What's going on? The bird is gone right? But we can still hear the sounds" .. The answer was "There are probably more". She was right .... There was an attic in the house where we put the luggage that we use very rarely. These birds probably lived there. I saw the second bird myself. It was resting itself on the couch. I tried to chase it out. It went all the way till the door and I was scared to open the mesh door and so it used to fly back in. After successfully failing like this for a few times, my cleaver roommate took the brave step once again to chase it. We sat there thinking ... we lived in this house with birds in it ... We hoped that we wont hear anymore sounds that night. And thankfully, there were no moe birds ... no more eerie sounds in the night.
Here comes the last and final one. This really came to us like a final dhamaka. I used to keep some of my course papers and books beside my mattress every night before I went to sleep. Slowly I started seeing powdered papers beside my mattress. Day 1, day 2... day 3 ... it kept increasing .. and then I had to stop keeping my books and papers beside my mattress. Very soon we figured out there were mice in the kitchen!!!! The other knots unleashed themselves ... so the master minds behind my papers being powdered were the mice. The mice dropped one of my coffee mugs from a kitchen shelf and the handle of the mug broke :( This is just one story of the mess created by mice.
When I think about it now, .... I feel were we living in a zoo?!! Hey Ramm ..... Seriously we were blessed by god that we were not victims of any strange ailments.
