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whose mouse are you?

I work at a residential treatment facility for boys, which happens to be in the middle of the Wayne National Forest.  I am thrust into nature every day.  I expect to see everything from frogs to turtles to crawdads to snakes, just walking from one building to another.  Heck, one time, we even rescued a baby deer.  We all took turns taking selfies with it, before someone came and hauled it away.  I got a call once, from a very despondent nurse saying there were baby snakes under the med cart.  I think I knocked a co-worker down the stairs so I could get there first to see them.  Furthermore, I will stop mid-keystroke if a kid asks me to go to the creek to hunt for crawdads.  I love living amongst nature; until nature decides to live amongst me and my desk and my office. I seldom eat a real lunch.  I mainly exist on Reese cups, Cool Ranch Doritos, gummy bears and Coke.  Its a more enjoyable lunch that way.  One day, I had reached for an unopened Reese cup and realized it had already be