Violet vs. the bat

We have had another bat in the house.  I’ll let my daughter Violet, pictured in the video above, tell the story:

It was about 1:30 in the morning, and I was laying in my bed watching videos on my phone, and I heard a weird noise, and I thought I was just hearing Ruby sniffing at the door, and I paused the videos on my phone, and I heard it again.  I said, that’s not a dog!  I didn’t expect there to be an animal in my room, but I kept hearing it, so I turned on the flashlight on my phone, and immediately, the bat just flies across the room in front of my phone!

I ripped the phone off the charger and ran out of the room and slammed the door, thinking I was trapping the bat in my room, and I ran downstairs to the kitchen and I was sitting there at the island, and I was out of breath and my heart was racing and I thought I’d just had a heart attack, and I was taking a video on my phone to explain it to my friend, and there was the bat!  I ran in the living room where it was dark, my mind was in circles, and the bat started flying around the living room, and I didn’t know what to do, so I ran into the sunroom and closed the door so nothing could get under it.

The sunroom door has a window looking into the kitchen, and I’m watching the bat flying around the kitchen, and I’m thinking, Oh, my gosh!  I’m never going to be able to leave this room!  So I thought, well that’s fine, I’m just going to sit in this room on my phone and wait out the bat.

Then my phone started to die!  It was at, like 10 percent.  And I thought, I’m going to have to go back upstairs to get my charger!  I’m going to have to leave this room and go back to my room, so I start to think of a game plan of how to get back upstairs without getting attacked or eaten by the bat.

I started Googling about bats.  I’m like, do bats attack people?  Do bats bite people?  And most of what I read said, no, but I was still deathly terrified of this bat, no matter what Google said.  I’m sitting there, building up the courage to leave the sun room, and I know I’m going to have to close the door to the room, to keep it a bat-free zone, and basically my plan was to turn on my flashlight on my phone, even thought it was on 10 percent, and then run through the house as fast as I could to get my charger, and then come back to the sunroom, because it was my bat-free zone.

So I left the room, and I closed the door behind me, and I made sure it was closed, and at first I’m creeping through the kitchen to make sure the bat wasn’t behind me, and I remembered what it sounded like from flying around my room, and I got to the door between the kitchen and the foyer, and I just sprinted as fast as I could all the way upstairs to my room, and the door was closed, so I turned the nob and just pushed it open and crept around the corner of the room holding my phone out with the flashlight to make sure it wasn’t flying around my room so I could get my charger safely, and I didn’t see it flying, so I sprinted over and got my charger and sprinted back down the stairs all the way through the house all the way to the sunroom and closed the door behind me.

I sat there and plugged in my phone and stood by the window to watch and see if the bat was still flying around the kitchen.  I ended up standing there to make sure the bat wasn’t flying around, and then I did the same thing again.  I crept out of the door and closed it behind me and turned on my flashlight and started creeping through the kitchen to see if I could see it or hear it flying through the house, and I got to the foyer doorway and sprinted back through the house all the way up the stairs to my room.  I crept in with my flashlight to make sure it wasn’t flying around, and I searched through the room, looking on top of the paintings and on the curtains and on the big cabinet that’s in there, because I read on Google they like to perch high up, so I’m like looking at all the high points, and then I got my camera out and put the flashlight and filmed under the cabinets, and I brought my camera out and played the video to make sure the bat wasn’t under there.  I didn’t see it, so I thought I could plug the door to make sure it didn’t come in while I was sleeping, and I thought, with my luck, I’ll be trapping it inside my room, not outside, so I decided not to block the bottom of the door.

I ended up switching beds away from the tall cabinet, because I didn’t want to be sleeping next to the high place it might be perching on.  I looked behind my pillows to make sure it wasn’t anywhere near my bed, and then I made myself go to sleep because I thought, well, I’m just going to have to live with the fact that this bat could be here, and I’ll sleep through it, and he’ll be gone by morning.  So I fell asleep. 

I’m going to be ready for that bat tonight. I swear.