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October 13, 2010

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Shaken Up

“COCKROACH! COCKROACH! COCKROACH!” (quick, what movie is that from?)

I have the willies and the creepies this morning because as I was fixing Steve’s lunch this morning, Moanna points to the wall and says, “Mommy there is a big ant on the wall. Look!”

Whaaaaa aaaahhhhh

I grabbed a paper towel, crept up on it and got it! As I was about to squish it the son of a mother jumped out at me (aaahhh)and ran under the refrigerator. I called for Steve to come get him but we couldn’t’ find him. He seemed to have disappeared as they tend to do. Just when Steve went upstairs I saw him creeping across the floor, and stomped on him and twisted and twisted and then picked him with a paper towel and disposed of him.

I tolerate a lot of nature, but not cockroaches. When you work in food service, you learn a lot about cockroaches, and it ain’t pretty. Either they leave, or I move.

PS… When I went into the garage last night to throw away something I heard something, I’m wondering if it was a cockroach…

Whaaaa ahhhhh.

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11 Comments

  • At 2010.10.13 09:24, amber said:

    On noes! I feel your pain. I actually did move once because of a cockroach problem that wouldn’t go away. I hope he was just one lonely roach…

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    • At 2010.10.13 11:56, Renee said:

      He better have attack alone! If he has backup hiding the walls or eeek my pantry, they’ll all die… I’ll burn the place down and start over if I have to

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    • At 2010.10.13 09:26, robyn said:

      So sorry! Cockroaches are some of the worst things in the world to me! Call your landlord and make him/her hire an exterminator.

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      • At 2010.10.13 11:55, Renee said:

        I’m going to go special ops of these creeps if I have to

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      • At 2010.10.13 12:56, Meredith said:

        EWWW!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck! It might seem irrational to some people, but ugh! Roaches are so vulgar and disgusting! Icky, nasty little (sometimes large) vermin!

        Time to call your landlord. Don’t tolerate that nonsense. YUCK!

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        • At 2010.10.13 16:04, Renee said:

          I’ve been watching my back all morning…

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        • At 2010.10.13 14:10, anika said:

          the is something about cockroaches that sends chills up my spine…even just reading about that…eeuchk.

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          • At 2010.10.13 16:04, Renee said:

            Every time I think about it I shiver

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          • At 2010.10.13 16:24, Grandma said:

            If you see one………………..there are many, many, many you don’t see. Your friends are right………Call your landlord and insist on fumigation.
            I remember once at the Nassau Bahama straw market, one as big as a 727 plopped right down in front of us while shopping. The clerk just shooed it away totally nonplussed…Guess it’s what you get used to but sure shook us up.

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            • At 2010.10.14 17:50, AuntieJill said:

              Gosh, if you lived in Florida, you could get away with calling them palmetto bugs. Really, really, really HUGE cockroaches! There was a fad many years back of…get this..somehow attaching a string to them and wearing the things on one’s lapel. Sooooo…next time you see a cockroach and squish it…you just busted up a piece of wearable art.

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              • At 2010.10.14 19:38, Renee said:

                Ohh the abundance of cockroaches in Miami… you turn on the light to go pee in the middle of the night and they would scatter…. shiver

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