A Pitt student found a mouse in his bread from IGA

‘All I wanted was a damn grilled cheese’

Last Wednesday Derek Prosser, a Junior at the University of Pittsburgh, stopped by IGA on the way home – the usual for students that have no food at home and no other options. Swiping his card at the end was disgusting, which is also typical at IGA, but the trip turned atypical when he realized his grocery bag was moving on the way home.

He checked what it was, only to find a live mouse was in his grocery bag, so he let it go outside of his apartment. He then soon found that it had burrowed its way through his bread. Derek said it was the “weirdest thing ever. It was like it was living in their! The whole loaf was hollow.”

He then took his bread back, and assured the clerk that he did not, personally, put a hole the entire way through the bread, but instead it was a mouse that clearly came from IGA. If she didn’t believe that, the rat excrement underneath the shelves in the bread aisle that Derek’s friend found would have been the nail in the coffin.

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Almost needless to say, Derek chose to take the refund and even though they told him he could take as much bread as he wanted, he just took a single replacement loaf of bread saying, “All I wanted was a damn grilled cheese.”

In the end, Derek had a sense of humor about it saying, “It’s not every day you find a loaf of bread nice enough to be a mouse house.” I am sure anyone that has ever had to resort to shopping at IGA shares in my anger and disgust. IGA is the only grocery store that Pitt students can access without having to take a bus, and everyone that has made that trip on the bus knows how dreadful it is.

Derek said, “It taught me to make sure there are no holes in the bag or living creatures that made a home. Where else am I going to get bread?” Sadly this is the reality of Oakland.

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