A big, ugly cockroach is sitting on my desk.

[erise]

Between the keyboard and the screen, as if it owned the place. Ew! Where did that come from?!

Excuse me while I go fetch a boot. It's squashing time.

 

[AppleBiter]

Between the keyboard and the screen, as if it owned the place. Ew! Where did that come from?!

Excuse me while I go fetch a boot. It's squashing time.

Where there's one, there's a billion. Get some Raid.

 

[erise]

Ha! I slayed the beast. I'm such a bad-ass.

Where there's one, there's a billion. Get some Raid.

I'm sure they don't sell that here. I know where the monsteras come from, and it's outside my fence, so I can't do much about it except complain. They only come inside the house when it rains too much.

 

[AppleBiter]

Ha! I slayed the beast. I'm such a bad-ass.

I'm sure they don't sell that here. I know where the monsteras come from, and it's outside my fence, so I can't do much about it except complain. They only come inside the house when it rains too much.

Ah, that sucks. But, it's good that you don't have a billion. We live in an apartment (sort of, it's hard to explain) and the guy upstairs is NASTY so we get 'em around here. I fucking hate roaches.

 

[sophia jane]

Ha! I slayed the beast. I'm such a bad-ass.

I'm sure they don't sell that here. I know where the monsteras come from, and it's outside my fence, so I can't do much about it except complain. They only come inside the house when it rains too much.

Ah the joy of tree roaches. Before I moved to Texas I didn't believe the stories about three inch cockroaches. Ha! I believe them now- yuck.

SJ

 

[R. Richard]

Unfortunately, due to my early life, I am an expert on cockroaches [also rats].

Cockroaches do not have lungs. They breath throught their skin [not exactly acurate, but close enough for rock and roll]. If you keep a little WD-40 or lighter fluid handy, you just spray a little on the cockroach. The cockroach will absorb the nasty petroleum fractions though its skin and die in agony [the part I like best!].

As has been said, if you see one, there are more. Get yourself a roach motel or three and go on the offensive.

 

[Guest]

Ah, that sucks. But, it's good that you don't have a billion. We live in an apartment (sort of, it's hard to explain) and the guy upstairs is NASTY so we get 'em around here. I fucking hate roaches.

I had two roommates in college (one male, one female - but that's a totally different story ) and the three of us lived above a group of guys.

I'm not speaking ill of college boys, but apparently they had a beer-can collection that spanned most of their living room walls.

Of course the cans were not cleaned before being added to the collection and consequently they attracted many bugs.

The filth in their apartment was so awful that it actually sent the bugs upstairs to us.

Ick.

In my home now? We actually brought roaches inside when we brought in wood for the fireplace. I freaked. We called Terminex the next day and they put plugs in walls, sprayed inside and out, and continued to do so for an entire year.

We haven't seen any since the first time they sprayed.

I do not do cockroaches.

*shudder*

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

I live with roaches too. It's always fun to turn on the kitchen light in the dead of night and see big huge ones convening on the counter. I swear to God, they're plotting to take over the world.

 

[Guest]

The morning after a party our apartment was a mess.

Bleary-eyed me, trying to find coffee, I came upon a big cockroach eating a piece of caramel popcorn in the living room.

I watched it eat for awhile. He took sizeable bites of the popcorn.

Munch, munch, munch. I didn't try to kill it.

It frightened me.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

The morning after a party our apartment was a mess.

Bleary-eyed me, trying to find coffee, I came upon a big cockroach eating a piece of caramel popcorn in the living room.

I watched it eat for awhile. He took sizeable bites of the popcorn.

Munch, munch, munch. I didn't try to kill it.

It frightened me.

Those big ones are scary. I would have huddled in a corner of the couch.

 

[Dar~]

I live on a military base. Roaches outnumber the people 1000 to one, easily. I am from montana and have only everlived there, Alaska, and here (new mexico). They freak me out. Raid doesn't take care of them, and the base does spray. They would have to spray the whole base in order for us to be rid of them and they won't do it. *shudder* I actually found one in my bed the other night.

This summer we have a sugar ant conflagration also. Very disturbing to me.

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOL Tree Roaches are greatly unappreciated. They provide a great deal of free amusement for my two cats. (thereby giving my wife and myself large amounts of amusement. Talk about flying cats.) Of course having one of them landing on you while in the middle of a tender moment with ones S/O can be a tad distracting, especially if one of our cats lands on me as it chases the bug.

The ones that bother me are the smaller roaches who like to take up residence inside. The last place we lived had them and I bombed it on a regular basis. To the point that our neighbors complained. (Maybe they complained because I was killing their insectile pets?)

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

Between the keyboard and the screen, as if it owned the place. Ew! Where did that come from?!

Excuse me while I go fetch a boot. It's squashing time.

Is that any way to talk about your boss?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

The first three months on my own, I had a food services McJob and a basement bachelorette one-room sewer with hot and cold running roaches.

Anything I planned to eat, I kept sealed in baggies, my clothes in green garbage bags which I kept sealed with twist ties.

I stood it as long as I could, but when they started climbing into bed with me, taking all the covers, and playing my tape recorder in the middle of the night, I bugged out!

 

[Guest]

The first three months on my own, I had a food services McJob and a basement bachelorette one-room sewer with hot and cold running roaches.

Anything I planned to eat, I kept sealed in baggies, my clothes in green garbage bags which I kept sealed with twist ties.

I stood it as long as I could, but when they started climbing into bed with me, taking all the covers, and playing my tape recorder in the middle of the night, I bugged out!

Fuckers.

They have horrible taste in music.

 

[velvetpie]

Living in Florida, you have a choice (IMO) between huge palmetto bugs that fly AT you, not away from you, and German cockroaches, a quick multiplying and extremely dirty bug. Thankfully, the bugs remain outside, except for a few every once in a while that appear in the dishwasher.

I agree ... EWWWWWWWWWW!

 

[erise]

Is that any way to talk about your boss?

That's not my boss. My boss is an amoeba.

 

[rgraham666]

That's not my boss. My boss is an amoeba.

That makes him easy to ignore then.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

That's not my boss. My boss is an amoeba.

My boss is a pustule.

 

[rgraham666]

My boss is a pustule.

Why is it that invertebrates are so perfectly designed for management?

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

My cat bats the cockroaches around and follows them when they move.

 

[rgraham666]

My cat bats the cockroaches around and follows them when they move.

Roaches are nature's perfect cat toy.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Roaches are nature's perfect cat toy.

When the cat eats them though, that's another story. I'm told she has "cockroach breath" then.

 

[Guest]

Roaches are nature's perfect cat toy.

Oooh. My cats love cicadas.

They hold them in their mouths, teeth apart, and while you can't really see the bug you can hear the furious buzzing.

Mouth vibrators, I guess.

Of course, the crunching sound the bugs make after the cats tire of playing with them and begin eating them?

Ugh.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . while you can't really see the bug you can hear the furious buzzing. Mouth vibrators, I guess . . .

Haven't you heard about the new sonic toothbrushes?

If she starts sitting on them . . . . . . you will know that she really IS your cat!