NIGHT OF THE RATS--Part I

So, I went to bed tonight with ALL THE LIGHTS ON, and tried to sleep.

No such luck.

Came back into the kitchen at around midnight, and this is what I found. Rat droppings on my stovetop. Rat urine in my saucepan, and on the counter tops.

But this is just part one. Part two? Part two will make this look like a DREAM.

So, you kill a rat in your apartment.
The apartment manager tells you "We've been having a problem in that building for a while."
Why do you have to kill a rat to find out about the problem? Shouldn't they have let everyone know???

At Cedar Bend Apartmentes--a Michael Stevens Interests property--they don't tell you your building
is infested with rats till the rats are literally running across your floor.

Even though the apartment complex is responsible for keeping rodents out, when you find them
in your apartment, Cedar Bend & Michael Stevens expect you to live with vermin and keep paying
the full rent. Can't stop that rent payment, now can we?

So, when you wake up and there are actual droppings on your stovetop?
You get a nice big "Sorry" and a speech like you're "in this together" with the management.
We're not. You're deficient in due diligence. And you kept the problem from me.
YOU, I assume, are NOT living with vermin crapping on your stovetop.

Mmmmm. Time for breakfast.
Who wants oatmeal and rat crap?

The rats also took the time to crap and urinate on my countertops.
But I'm supposed to be patient. It could take a while to get rid of them.
I guess I'll just forsake sleeping and eating till the people who allowed the rats to infest the building
get around to removing the rats.

Yeah. You wouldn't believe how much they charge for a fine rat-filled apartment like this.

Where's Better Homes & Gardens or Southern Living when you need them?

The only good thing about the rats is that they make the cockroaches seem like a BARGAIN!
They're everywhere, INCLUDING IN THE DISHWASHER. Makes doing dishes kinda counterproductive.

More of our "side revolting thing" with ONE of our many, many cockroach visitors.

RAT URINE. Inside one of my saucepans.
Anybody hungry? How am I supposed to cook--much less sleep--in a dwelling where the RATS are pissing
inside my actual cooking implements? All my food is in the fridge.

MORE RAT URINE. Which can cause kidney and liver problems. Hard to spot.

The sad thing? Compared to what I'm going to post NEXT?
THIS SEEMS SANITARY NEXT TO THAT.
Part II comin' right up.