Joseph From Pest Tech Exterminators

Joseph From Pest Tech Exterminators

September 10, 2022 Mice

Joseph came from Pest tech to change the poison in the mouse traps. We have had one (I hope) persistent mouse who comes to the pantry regularly. I put a trap on the counter in the pantry. In some way I feel badly about every time I walk into the pantry and see the trap, but not too badly. Ants for example, I hate ants in the house and when i see any on the kitchen counter I sweep them onto the floor and then step on them. Looking down at the ant scrambling to get away and knowing no matter how hard they try that I am a giant and they don't have a chance, it does give me a pang. The day started off badly. I was continuing to straighten up my studio and came across the photographs that I had installed at the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie. this was a site specific installation and the new head of Arts, Mid-Hudson decided to take them down, which pissed me off. I hadn't looked at the stack of mounted photographs until now and one of them was face to the velcro squares that were sued to hang them up and the photograph was ruined. Later in the afternoon when Joseph came he had to stand on a stool in one of my studios to get into a cabinet to refresh the poison in the trap. In his peripheral vision he saw what reasonably looked like a piece of wood attached to the wall. He went to steady himself on it and the ceramic sculpture, that looked like a piece of wood in perspective fell off the wall and broke. I was very upset, even though this was no fault of his. Upset because it had broken and at myself for not realizing that this could happen. I am also embarrassed that I was not nice enough to hime when it happened. he asked, hopefully, if it could be fixed and i said no and now it is worthless. He felt badly enough and then I made it worse. He was a very nice guy who on entering the studio noticed the drawings and other works and said he liked them very much. I spent the rest of the time he was here reassuring him and trying to make him fell better. I do not think I succeeded. Late on in the evening when I was still mourning the loss of the sculpture I realized I was less worked up about being very ill during the last two years (possibly because I didn't should of) which made me feel more reasonable about the sculpture. Joseph, if you ever read this, I don't blame you at all it was an accident that was unavoidable. If anyone is to blame (though probably not) I blame myself.

Harry Roseman