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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Nov 9 8:02am | Replies (2396)

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@sueinmn

Aw, John - that's no fun!
Growing up, I belonged to a church built in 1857, with a parsonage almost a old. "Bats in the belfry" were a normal part of life - they made semi-regular appearances at Sunday Mass - very exciting for us kids to hear the ladies screaming and see them ducking as the ushers grabbed brooms to shoo them out. There was a broom at the back door to the parsonage - to sweep away the bats from the ceiling before opening the door - the housekeeper was deathly afraid.
Now we love to watch them swooping around our yard near the pond in the evenings - eating lots of mosquitos.
Sue

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Funny bat sorry Sue -- When I was working at IBM in Rochester, it wasn't uncommon for bats to be flying around in some of the long hallways in the buildings. They usually got in at night through the loading docks. I was walking to a meeting with a young girl who was part of my tech writing team and a bat buzzed us several times. On it's 3rd pass I took the notebook I was carrying and swatted it to the floor and was about to stomp on it when Beth took her notebook and swatted me upside the head and gave me what for, for hurting this poor little creature. She then picked it up and we walked it out side where she gingerly placed it on a tree branch just outside the building. That's when I learned she also volunteered at the Minnesota Zoo on the weekends while she was lecturing on why we should be nice to bats. I did get even a few year later when she told us she was moving and leaving our team at the end of the month. It was when we first started using PCs in tech writing and I wrote a small BATch file that loaded when you turned on the computer. It prompted with the question - Are you really going to leave your team? Y or N. Y was an infinite loop and it would keep asking the question until she replied No. Fun times at the Blue Barn on Hwy 52 in Rochester.