A mouse in my shoe

Men's shoes are not shaped like men's feet.

This is very important to remember.

Friday morning I was getting ready to go to work. I live about a mile and a half from my place of establishment. (This too is very important.) And I was not in a terribly big hurry, although I was cutting the clock a little close. I put my shoes on - which are about two weeks old, and I am still not completely used to the feel of them. 

I left and got in my minivan. (Yes, I drive a minivan. It drives very nice!) After about half a mile, I felt something in my shoe. It felt like any kind of random object that gets in the shoe: a small stone, a twig, or a piece of cat food. It moved around a little bit, but it didn't bother me that badly. 

Once I got to work, I decided that I should take the stone out of my shoe before I start working, just so I'm not distracted. So I untied my shoe. And thinking that I'd be dumping whatever was in my shoe on the ground anyways, I got out of my van and put my foot on the ground. I lifted my food out of my shoe....

...when a small mouse ran out of my shoe.

It seems that in the extra space in the "nose" of the shoe, the mouse had curled up before I put my foot in the shoe, and it didn't have any real room to move around. I try not to think about what I felt, which in all reality, was probably it's tail. Gross.