It happened last night. My son and I had already retired to our room after having dinner. Even though he wanted to stay in the living room to continue playing with his friend, I just had to tell him to go to his bed in the room.
While we were in the room, I was already feeling sleepy but knew that I had to join them soon in the living room for our daily short night prayer.
There was a power supply at that time, so the matron and the other lady in the shelter were still watching a movie in the living room while I was in my room doing some engagement on the hive.
To be honest, I didn't feel like joining them that night, I had already done my night prayer alone, I just felt so lazy getting up from the bed to go to the parlor make matters worse, I became pressed, I needed to pee.
Leaving my room to go to the toilet meant that I would have to pass through the living room first, so I decided to stay put and somehow, suppressed the urge to go pee.
In the process, I slept off.
I woke up later but could still hear their voices in the living room. I wondered the kind of movie they were watching that had made them stay up so late at the midnight.
I went back to sleep again, hoping that they would have gone to sleep by the time I woke up again.
I woke up after 30minutes, I was so pressed and could still hear their voice. At that moment, I decided to ignore it and go to the toilet to pee.
On entering the living room, I didn't see anyone then I proceeded to the toilet to pee.
The voices I was hearing were from their room.
On entering the toilet, I heard someone say
"who is that"?
It was the other lady in the shelter asking me.
I replied that I was the one.
Then she said "Okay" and explained that she had just left the toilet and locked it but was surprised to see it open.
I laughed and went back to my room.
This morning, we all came out for the morning devotion.
Before we started the devotion, the matron and the lady talked about the big rat they had killed the previous night.
I joined in the conversation and said;
"how come, where was the rat caught?"
The lady replied and said that they found the rat inside the toilet.
I was surprised on hearing that, so I asked again to confirm.
Me: "Was it after that time you saw in the toilet last night?"
The lady: It was immediately before you went into the toilet.
Me: "Gracious lord!!😲"
The Lady: Before you went in, I had gone to pee but couldn't when I noticed something moving inside the toilet. I initially assumed that it was a snake so I had to check what it was with a flashlight and confirmed that it was a big rat.
Me: "Are you seriously serious?"
The lady: Yes, I had to call the matron to come to see it too, we fetched a full bucket of water and flushed the toilet with it but the rat didn't go down, instead, it tried jumping out but I noticed that he couldn't come out no matter how it tried because the water system was slippery for it.
Me: "Oh my God."
At that moment, I was grateful that I had not gone out to pee immediately I felt the urge, I thanked God for making me stay put in the room all through that period while I waited for everyone to go to their room because I didn't feel like joining them for the short night prayer.
If I had left my room and had gone to the toilet, I probably would have sat on it without knowing that there was a rat inside. The thought of it made me feel irritated. What if while I was seated, the rat jumped up and touched my buttocks 😩😩😩😩
"I wouldn't stop disinfecting my butt"😢
This is the reason why I said, everything happens for good for those that love God.
I had to ask again to confirm if it wasn't that the rat came from the soakaway. I remembered that there was a time something was trending online and it was about snakes coming out of people's toilets. Snake in my toilet. 🐍
The lady responded, explaining that there was a carton of indomie that was kept beside the drum of water near the toilet, so it's possible that the rat was eating something and suddenly heard movements, in a bid to escape, the nearest place it could run to was the toilet.
It still isn't clear to me how it entered the toilet, and into the W.C.
The lady also said that the matron had to get enough water boiled which was also used in flushing the toilet before the big rat finally disappeared, it must have gone to the soakaway and would be dead already.
This is my story of how not wanting to join the night prayer saved me from sitting on the toilet when there was a big rat in it.