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October 07, 2010

Can't say I've seen that before...

You know how you can go through life seeing many, many things you've never seen before, but they don't really make you stop and wonder? They're small things, or odd combos of things, but they don't really make you pause for more than a second... The thing I saw today was not one of those things... Today's thing was one of those makes you stop and say, "I can't say I've ever seen this before and come to think of it, I'm glad I haven't seen this before because I'm not liking this."

Grizzled and I were up at our rental house the other day. It's a house that Grizzled bought long before I met him and over the years he decided to keep it and rent it out. We tried to sell it a couple years ago, but were irked with the offers and the unreasonable requests so back to renting we went. We tried to sell it again this year and kicked ourselves for not taking some of the unreasonable offers from a couple of years ago... So anyhow, we're searching for renters again. We've never had trouble getting a renter, but this time has been a bit more challenging. We both went up to meet with a couple and to do some yardwork/cleaning etc. The house has been vacant for the past 3 months and even though no one is in it, it still needs some attention. It was dusty. The floors needed to be cleaned. The fridge was growing something even though it was empty and on.

After wiping down the fridge, I figured I'd look in the freezer. This is a basic fridge that has the freezer in the top so I wasn't expecting much extraneous crud. I didn't think much could grow in there since it was running. I didn't expect to find anything in there. I certainly didn't expect to find what I found. It wasn't even that obvious at first... and then I saw them.

Hairs.

Lots of black hairs, and they appeared to be animal hairs... about 2 1/2 inches long... I didn't think much when seeing the first one, or even the second or third, but it was when my eyes scanned the freezer and the inside of the freezer door that I saw at least 30 hairs! It was then that I realized, hairs have no place in a freezer! I live with animals and hairy people, I know hairs end up everywhere, but I can honestly say I've never seen hair in my freezer. It was wrong.

I scanned my memory for the type of dog the former renter had... a Weimereiner. No, these hairs did not come from a Weimereiner. I knew his girlfriend had a dog... a German Shepard. I suppose these could have come from one, but they seemed a little too fine.

Now we weren't renting to Bill Frist so I'm guessing the guy wasn't storing future anatomy projects in there, but still... it looked really wrong. Hair should not be in the freezer... Grizzled thinks they just used a rag to wipe it out that had been used elsewhere and the hairs were transferred that way. I could see that... kind of... but still, I would think the sight of leftover hairs in a freezer might make you realize you need to use something else to clean those out.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with that answer... I'm still wondering about rabid raccoons needing to be saved until the lab could check their brains... or wondering about the cat that accidentally jumped in behind the owner's back and was closed in for the rest of it's shortened life.

The only thing I'm 100% sure about? I never want to see scattered hairs in a freezer again.

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