Well, I don't get asked this every day.

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Date: 23 January 2007 22:25:48

It's the nature of my job that customers often ask me questions. Usually they ask how the pesticides actually work (how detailed a description I give them depends on how squeamish I perceive them to be). Often, I'm asked to give advice on the best way to fill a hole to stop mice getting in. Sometimes, people will ask (with genuine curiosity) about the life cycle of a particular species of insect.

Today, I was called to a Funeral Director who had a mouse infestation. While I was there, he asked me "while we've got mice on the premises, would it be advisable to leave the lids on the coffins of the deceased?"

I had to be honest and admit that this was the first time I had ever been asked that question and that it was something that had ever occurred to me. There doesn't seem to be anything in the manual about that one either.

I suppose he's lucky he doesn't have an infestation of vultures.