Mice Blunder

Inspired by Ingrid's blog about blunders and the subsequent happy blogs of others on this subject, I would also like to give a try.

It was 1973 and I was only just in the middle school high school. I had to give a talk. Now it is the case that children have to have a regular speaking session in front of the classroom already in primary school, but in my day it wasn't the case. It was my first talk and I thought it was quite exciting. The idea that everyone was watching you, including the guys you secretly had a little crush on. And what should you choose as a topic?

Fortunately, the teacher also allowed you to do your talk with someone and so my girlfriend and I decided to do that. So it was less exciting and we had also found a topic fairly quickly. We would have the talk about our white mice. Well, it wasn't doable to take your mouse box at the back of your bike to school, so it would take her mother by car and drop it off to the janitor. I never knew how that man looked when he suddenly got two boxes of mice delivered to his office. 

All day we had been a bit nervous, but finally it was time. It actually went pretty well. We each told our pieces of text and the class listened interested. We were done a little fast, so it seemed like a good idea to show how you changed a bin like that. I still don't know how I got there. But anyway, I put a newspaper on the table and tipped the tray upside down. Because of the nerves completely forgot to get the mice out first. You understand what chaos it became, they smoke their freedom and started running back and forth right through the wood chips. my dear, I could sink through the ground. Everyone started interfering, and some girls even started screaming. Without hesitation, I grabbed a mouse by its tail and held it up so that the whole class could see it, and said, “look, that's how you're supposed to pick up a mouse”.