Don't know if you guys have ever had an encounter with a possum -- or as we like to call them at 12 Grant Ave, giant rats -- but last night around midnight I ran into something licking the grease off the bottom of our grill. At first I thought it was a squirrel or something, so I went down the steps of our back deck to shoo it away...but then I heard the most goddawful sound, and something that looked a lot like this came firing out from beneath the grill.

Suffice it to say, I screamed like a little school girl and ran back inside my house. Glitches and Bleeps I can handle. Possums? If there are any wranglers out there, please send your resumes now...

P.S. if you want to hear what I heard, check out this link and imagine it came out of total darkness...

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/opossum.html