This is a story about a rat that has been living in our Honda Accord for at least two years. Maybe I've got this wrong. He started living in our Honda Accord in 2006. Sometime between then and today he died.
I discovered this when I had the car serviced and told the mechanic there was an overflow of water from the air conditioner's evaporator box. It poured into the passenger compartment and onto Jo's feet.
This morning, the mechanic took the evaporator box off the car and pried it apart. Oops. There's the rat... or what was left of him. Mostly tufts of furry stuff and large quantities of leaves and other nest-building material. Presumably he used the cold fresh water from the evaporator for thirst quenching. Nice.
The mechanic called everyone over to view his handiwork. I was called from the waiting room to view the remains. Nasty smell!
$238.23 later, we have a fresh-smelling car that seems to pump much greater quantities of cold air into the interior space.
Jo and I remember seeing rat turds in the back seat of the car in 2006. We set a large trap with cheese but the smart little bugger stole the cheese without springing the trap. So we moved over to the tried and true peanut butter. We dumped a dollop on the spring of the trap. But this rat had gone to trap school and he avoided the peanut butter. We left it in the back seat until it had hardened on the trap. The rat continued to leave his calling card of turds as we hauled him around New England, Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and then back to the U.S. via Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
Somewhere along the journey the rat gave up the ghost. We no longer saw the turds and assumed he had left the premises. Wrong. He'd simply crawled into his evaporator and evaporated from our sight.
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