My mom's New Hampshire adventure

[Dobie]

My mom is at my New Hampshire house with 2 of her sisters this week - she just called me to tell me about today's adventure.

One of my aunts was in the kitchen and started screaming - my mom and other aunt went in to see what the problem was. She pointed to the shelves and they all saw a big black mouse - they all started screaming. It didn't move at first, so my mom poked it with the broom to see if it was alive (the entire time they were all screaming). Someone saw the mouse move - one aunt screamed and locked herself in the bathroom, the other screamed and ran out on the deck, and my mom went screaming to our neighbor Tom's house to have him kill the mouse.
The 3 sisters waited on the porch while brave Tom went in to face the killer mouse. My mom said that the 3 of them agreed that as soon as Tom got the mouse, they were packing up and leaving. My mom said all of a sudden and yelled and came out with a napkin wrapped around his finger - he said that it had bit him really badly when he tried to pick it up. All 3 of them started screaming again - until they realized that Tom was laughing. He then pulled out the "killer mouse" and showed it to them - it was the cat's toy!

She is NEVER going to live this one down!