Mystery Trail

The other day I woke up and in my stumble to the kitchen for my morning infusion of chilled carbonated cola-flavored diet water, I noticed something weird on the floor.

It was a line of something that was reflecting the light.

I go get my diet coke and head back to the bedroom and notice on the carpeting there is another line of something. At first I thought it was a cellophane strip from one of the girl's pom poms but upon closer inspection, I realized that this line was much longer than just a cellophane strip AND that it was connected to the weird line I had found in the kitchen (which also was not a cellophane strip from a pom pom)

So Im like, "What the heck??" and I bend down to look and realize that the line starts in the laundry room goes into the dining room via a stop in the kitchen, swirls around a bit under the table, and goes on into the family room and under the sofa.

Then I touch the line.

And I realize its not a line.

Its wet....and slimy...and really sort of gross. (Of course I smelled it and it didnt smell like anything. ) I was already late so I didnt have time to really ponder what this could be, and because my cleaning people were coming that afternoon I just spent the morning hopping over the slimy line (whatever it was!!!) zipping around trying to get ready so I wouldnt be late for work.

That night E and the girl and I were sitting playing cards and the following conversation took place:

P: "Did you all see that weird line on the carpeting and tile this morning?"

E: "No...was there a line?"

TG (the girl): "Yeah, I saw a shiny line over by the table?"

P: "Did you touch it?"

TG: "Nooooo..."

P: (to E)"What do you think it was? Was it like a bug or something leaving a trail?" (we do live in Florida afterall, land of the flying and never dying bugs)

E: "It was probably a slug."

P: "Seriously??? GROSS!! (pause ) Why do you think it was a slug??"

E: " Because I saw it on the floor when I went to bedlast night but was too tired to pick it up!"

P: "NASTY!! So there was slug slime all over the floor because you didnt pick it up?! That is disgusting! I touched it!! GROSS!!! (im grossing myself out).....(more calmly...) I wonder how a slug got into the house"

TG: " Easy, it came through the cat door...there was a slime line on the rug in the garage and going up the door to the cat door. Thats how he got in."

SIGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Im so glad my family knows so much!!