Bat in the bedroom - You won't believe what I did

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One night when Bob was working something woke me up about 3 o'clock in the morning. At first I thought maybe Bob had come home from work early. I laid there for a couple of minutes waiting to hear more. Then I heard crashing bangs all around me. I turned over and in the light from the TV that I sleep with was a BAT - A BIG BAT. I slowly reached over and got my glasses off of the night stand and literally slid to the floor and crawled out of the bedroom. When I got out into the hall I got up and ran to the living room It followed me. Our living room,dining room and kitchen go around in a circle with the hallway leading off of them. Well, it comes into the living room and starts bashing its head into the walls and knocking things off of the fireplace mantel and walls - I ran to the dining room - It followed. I got a broom and started swinging. Actually hit it a couple of times and knocked it down but when it got up it would come straight for me. I opened the terrace doors thinking it would go out but nooooo. It landed on the wall above them and I tried to scoot it out with the broom but it took off to the kitchen. So I shut the door and sit down at the table while it flew around and around the 3 rooms. Boy was I tired. I just wanted to go back to bed. After about 15 more minutes of flying up and down the hallway and around the circle it went down the hallway. I sit there waiting for it to come back. It didn't??? I had shut the bathroom and bedroom doors so there was no where else for it to go. I am standing there taking in every inch of the hallway with my eyes and could not see him. I looked up and noticed that one of the screws had come out of the ceiling cold air ducts. Bob had taken both of them down that day to clean them and when he put them back up one screw didn't sink very well and had come out. The corner of the vent was down about 2 inches and that is the only place he could have come in or gone back out. He couldn't find his way out of a door standing wide open but he found that little open corner of the vent. Now the ladder was in the garage and since it is not attatched I had no intentions of going out there at 4:00 in the morning. Well I am a pretty inventive person so I grabbed the sponge mop and ran down and pushed the corner up but it came right back down when I took the mop away. Sooo I got an folding table thinking it would be tall enough to hold up the mop. Not quite, needed something a little taller, soooo I got the foot stool from the living room, now it was exactly the same size as the top of the folding table so 1/4 inch off and it would fall, but I got it on and balanced and put the mop on top of it. Still not quite tall enough needed about 8 more inches, I looked all around the kitchen and finally found an empty gallon plastic milk jug that laying on its side was just the right size. So I laid the milk jug on its side on the footstool that was on top of the table. Wala - perfect - except the mop handle was pushing the side of the milk jug in. Ok I needed something firm to put on top. I went to the kitchen and got an 8 x 13 cake pan, laid it on top of the milk jug that was on top of the footstool that was on top of the table. Perfect - except the mop handle kept sliding off of the cake pan. So back to the kitchen I went and got a potholder. I put the pot holder on top of the cake pan which is on the milk jug - Oh you get the idea. It was now about 4:30 in the morning but I turned off all the lights and went back to bed after closing the bedroom door. The next morning when Bob came home I woke up to him standing over the bed saying " What the hell were you doing in the hallway last night." Well I told him what had happened and after laughing his a-- off he went out on the deck and got the push broom and showed me that it has an extention handle and would have fit from ceiling to floor by itself. Divorce Pending.