All-You-Can-Eat: Mouse Buffet

An open letter to my roommates (all six of them, but one in particular - you know who you are):

Don't complain to me about how we have a mouse problem when you leave the garbage overflowing in the kitchen and instead of taking it out back, which is what rational people do by the way, you just stack your garbage beside the garbage can. STUPID! Mice will eat your old pizza crusts, they aren't that picky - they don't care what they eat.

All those leaves that are STILL piled up in the front/back yards, yeah those are essentially breeding grounds for little mice. It didn't even snow here until November, plenty of time to rake. I might have even helped you if you asked. Instead Latte and I cleaned up the mess that the tree guys left and the 30 bags of leaves that the Delta Chi's pranked us with. We left you some work to do, and told you on several occasions that 'leaves don't just rake themselves'. If our rake is broken, you can borrow one from our neighbours. Now is not the time to have excessive pride about borrowing a rake.

Maybe I am a bit angry, but it's because I keep forgetting how busy you are, what with the 2 classes you're taking, and all that time you spend on MSN. Since the mice were primarily staking out your room, you'd think that you would make more of a concerted effort to keep the house clean, but you're content with the bare minimum.

You have no one to blame but yourself when the mice invariably come back, and for the record, I'm not taking out the trash. If you top it off, you can take it out.