Nothin Beats Chippin’ and Catchin’ Mice
Current Song: Dr. Dre feat. Nocturnal – “Bad Intentions –Seriously folks, is it ever a boring weekend when your with me? I mean really, you’d think after this long we would run out of things to do. But just when you thought we were contained, your wrong. So here ya go kiddies, take notes and enjoy the things we college kids do. Thursday Night – 1.24.02 (9:15 PM) – Chouse brought the idea up from Chelsea. Him and his friends had been doing it for a while. Chippin’, that is. Now for all you little boys and girls who don’t know what “chippin’” is I’m going to tell you, but this is the LAST time because I’m sick of explaining it. In Jackson, Michigan (about 30 minutes from E. Lansing) there is a Frito Lays Distribution Plant. This plant checks all the Frito Lays chips that come in to make sure they are packaged correctly and that the bags are filled the right way. It is also the place that all the surrounding stores send back the chips that are outdated on their shelves. When the Frito Company gets them they throw them (along with all the mispackaged chips) into a dumpster. This is where we come in. Me, Chouse, Ken, Antwan, Brian, Lindsey, and Emily all show up at this plant at about midnight. Antwan and I jump in the dumpster and throw out all the chips that aren’t broken open and we take them. A lot of people think this is dirty, but let me assure you nothing is wrong with the chips, we only take the ones that are sealed. So this is what we did Thursday night, the funny pictures of me in a dumpster are a treat. By the way, the total count of bags of chips: 108!Friday Night – 1.25.02 (10:00? PM) – Tonight Emily’s brother, Andy was having a party at his house on Charles Street. We had a large group of people going over there too. Me, Lindsey, Emily, 4 of Em’s friends, Ashley, Chaz, Jane, good God if I’m missing someone I’m sorry. Anyway, Andy had a pretty phat party. Around 1 AM everyone was in their ‘prime’ of partying and Andy and his band started playing. Next thing ya know the cops were all over. It appears that some jack ass was outside throwing bottles at parked cars so the 5-0 assumed that he was from Andy’s party. So, the cops made everyone leave, blah blah blah, I really wanted to take my picture with the cops for the webpage, however, in my state of mind, it probably wouldn’t have been the greatest of ideas and everyone was yelling at me so I decided to pass that by. It was a kick ass party though and it appears that Andy will be having one more before the year is up *smile*.
Saturday – 1.26.02 (Sometime in the afternoon) – Me and Lindsey just got back from our double date with Chaz and Jane and we were getting ready to go to the movies when Ashley came in and said there was an “animal” in her room. So I being the man that I am, went in and looked. Behind the couch, yes, there was a tiny mouse. So I decided to pull a “MacGyver” and try and trap the bitch. I used a bucket, a cracker, and a highlighter in my trap. I put the cracker on the ground and positioned the highlighter on the middle of the cracker and balancing the lip of the bucket on the other end of the highlighter. My reasoning was that the mouse would try and take the cracker and as it touched it the highlighter would fall, thus dropping the bucket over the mouse. I left the room and we all went to see a movie. Unfortunatly, (or fortunatly, depending on who you talk to) the movie was sold out. When we got back the bucket was down! I slipped the top of a pizza box under the bucket and flipped it over. I removed the pizza box lid to reveal nothing. That son-of-a-bitch mouse got the cracker and didn’t get trapped. I kept adjusting my trap and trying new things but it never worked. Eventually on Sunday when Em got back she brought mouse traps (the humane kind that don’t kill the animal). So as I said, Sunday was all pretty much mouse trapping but by the time the new traps arrived I had to leave. All in all, 10 out of 10 stars for the weekend. Next weekend looks to be quite promising as well. Ken and I (and a few others) are going to Canada. Oh ya, you can expect all the pictures from this weekend to be up next weekend. Thats all for now!
