There may be a mouse in the house.
So, everything in the house has to be cleaned, boiled, sanitized and atomized just in case the mouse or mice thought about touching it, came near it or were in the same room with it.
I don't argue with the wife.
It's easier to go along with her.
She's German.
If I question her, I have to go into the freight car by the railroad and surrender, then it gets ugly.