And I did not even have a bad dream!

Last night before I went to bed, I talked on the phone with my sister, Lori, in Holmen. A bit earlier I had called her house and spoke with David who reported that she was still leading her Bible study, the one he referred to as "the bat coffee". He asked if I knew this story and I told him that was what I was calling about. Mom had asked if Lori told me the "bat story" yet, and she had not, so I had to find out what was going on. I passionately HATE vermin, winged or not, and was not sure I really wanted to hear the story. Did her cats do something or was a bat swooping around their lovely home? Had to know!!!!

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First David told me, and then Lori, about how, at their Bible study last week, Lori was cleaning up the coffee maker and such afterward. They have the type that is plumbed in, an automatic Bunn-style commercial coffee maker. She was rinsing out the decanter portion, I think, and looked inside just to see if it was clean. It appeared as though a napkin was left inside or something, so she reached in to pull it, and it was a bat!!!! Ewwwwww! The absolute height of grossness! People had been drinking coffee at Bible study which had been laced with a bat! What are they doing---practicing witchcraft at their church or something?????

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David teased me that I would blog about this and told me NOT to mention the name of their Lutheran church because they did not need any more negative publicity!

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Lori, after screeching her head off, tossed the bat into the garbage, but then decided she might need it in case the bat had rabies. She called the local hospital to ask someone there what to do, who transferred her to the ER dept. who transferred her to infectious disease control who referred her to County Health Dept. They, in turn, not knowing what the protocol was for bats in a coffee maker, called the CDC! I can just picture the red phone on the desk in Atlanta ringing and people putting on their haz-mat outfits to deal with an ole bat in a Lutheran church. That should REALLY keep them busy!!!! Anyway, someone from the County Health Dept. came to collect the cooked bat but said they could not do any testing since it was well-done. But, they did get the names and numbers of those who were at the Bible study to let them know what happened. The whole "picture" just makes me sick!!!! And I was all creepy from seeing a smashed rodent in the parking lot in the space right next to my car the other day!!!!

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Here is the warning: all old bats in churches, watch your back!