$68,000 a day?????

My wife and I were watching Chicago PD the other night, only a day or so after making it back home to Chicago

Midway through the show, we noticed that there was a little guest in our house that doesn’t pay room and board.

No, not PJ...

This guest (a mouse) was caught on top of our curtain rod, scaling the curtains in an attempt to watch Detective Voight fight crime with us.

It would have been nice to grab that little turd and break it in half with my bare hands, but we found out how fast they can be.

Let’s just say I have a whole new appreciation or disdain for the cartoon Speedy Gonzales.

We had roughly 15 minutes to run out to Albertson’s and grab a trap.

My wife came back homewith ten old school wood traps...

We tried the ever popular peanut butter on the trap remedy.

This rodent cleaned all 10 traps while we were sound asleep.

The next day it seemed I hardly got any work done because I was looking up better baits for the trap.

Mark and I found a hilarious video of a southern man and his use of Tootsie Rolls.

In my mind all that meant was I needed more peanut butter.

Man was I wrong because the next morning the traps were all cleaned, minus the trap that I included honey.

The next night we were fed up after we found the mouse in a drawer in a bedroom. We locked down the room and searched everywhere to catch it, but again we got burned.

The next morning after we noticed our D-Con wasn’t touched, I went over to Hardware Hank and got “The Better Mousetrap,” thanks to the endorsement from various people who have had the same dilemma as us.

I set that bad boy, with a speck of peanut butter deep inside and his rear end was grass.

I ran home and disposed of the mouse as soon as I was done for the day.

Our next door neighbor’s cat had a toy for the next couple of hours.

We haven’t had any other mouse activity since then and we assume the mouse ate all of that peanut butter because she was pregnant. That was a close one.

In other news...

Giancarlo Stanton just signed a 13 year, 325 million dollar deal with the Miami Marlins...

Do the math, from now until the end of his deal, he will be making roughly $68,000 everyday (including off season days.)

Yea... Our economy is broken.

There are people in our country struggling to feed their family with honest jobs and this guy can afford prime rib for the rest of his life. Crazy.

It just makes you wonder how the working man and woman got it so bad that this guy earns more money in a day then most of us will see in two years.

I am not saying star athletes don’t deserve to get paid, but my issue is that, athletes knowing they face dangers seen and unseen sell their souls to their respective leagues for a small fortune and then have the nerve to sue when they get hurt, go crazy or run out of dough.

Oh, America.