10,000 Words Part 67: Pest

We’ve got an infestation. I just knew it. You can always spot the signs. First, food goes missing. Cereals are especially vulnerable. You’ve to keep boxes tightly sealed, and woe betide you if you leave your porridge unattended! Then there’s the furniture damage: cushions indented, grubby marks on the arms, the legs scuffed. Those telltale curly yellow hairs everywhere. They make me squirm.
It’s beds as well. You’ve to check your sheets carefully.
Do you know we found one asleep in our son’s room? Bold as brass! He’s traumatized, won’t sleep in his own bed.
We’ve put some poison down.