What is happening? I just walked into my kitchen and saw a roach the size of my thumb on the wall. I killed it with my flip flop and it's left me a little shaken up. What the [expletive]??
I'm not sure this place is going to work out. Can you break a lease because the place has a bug problem? I didn't sign up for this.
Either your thumb is unusually large or you haven't seen roaches like I have. I thought all roaches were roughly thumb size. Those roach stories I talked about - with hundreds of them scattering in all directions when I picked up a pile of clothes - were thumb size. I had a roommate move in mid semester because my original roomie got sick and had to go home for the year (surprise surprise given the squalor we were living in), and I got the biggest kick out of him jumping out of bed on the middle of the night freaking out as one was crawling on him in his sleep.
They come out at night you know keen. If you get up to pee in the middle of the night I wouldn't turn the light on if you are squimish.
In college we lived in a house that seemed to get passed down from fraternity member to fraternity member since it was a know party house. There was an old fridge that came along w/ the house that everyone used as the beer fridge. The house never seemed to have a roach problem until the end of our stay there but as we narrowed down the search, things seemed to originate from the area of this fridge. One day when we decided to try to move this thing to see if something was underneath it & as we tried to move it, literally hundreds of those nasty [expletive] fell from the back & came from underneath. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it!
What is happening? I just walked into my kitchen and saw a roach the size of my thumb on the wall. I killed it with my flip flop and it's left me a little shaken up. What the [expletive]??
I'm not sure this place is going to work out. Can you break a lease because the place has a bug problem? I didn't sign up for this.
Either your thumb is unusually large or you haven't seen roaches like I have. I thought all roaches were roughly thumb size. Those roach stories I talked about - with hundreds of them scattering in all directions when I picked up a pile of clothes - were thumb size. I had a roommate move in mid semester because my original roomie got sick and had to go home for the year (surprise surprise given the squalor we were living in), and I got the biggest kick out of him jumping out of bed on the middle of the night freaking out as one was crawling on him in his sleep.
They come out at night you know keen. If you get up to pee in the middle of the night I wouldn't turn the light on if you are squimish.
Okay, this image is a guide as the roaches are close to life-size. The biggest I'd seen until last night was the German. Mostly I see the brown-banded. Fortunately the majority I see of both species are smaller than all of these here. But last night I saw the American roach for the first time and it was damn near as big as this image. You're telling me you had hundreds of roaches that size running around in your dorm room for half a year? How the hell did you live like that?
The Emperor—so they say—has sent a message, directly from his death bed, to you alone, his pathetic subject, a tiny shadow which has taken refuge at the furthest distance from the imperial sun. He ordered the herald to kneel down beside his bed and whispered the message in his ear. He thought it was so important that he had the herald speak it back to him. He confirmed the accuracy of verbal message by nodding his head. And in front of the entire crowd of those witnessing his death—all the obstructing walls have been broken down, and all the great ones of his empire are standing in a circle on the broad and high soaring flights of stairs—in front of all of them he dispatched his herald. The messenger started off at once, a powerful, tireless man. Sticking one arm out and then another, he makes his way through the crowd. If he runs into resistance, he points to his breast where there is a sign of the sun. So he moves forwards easily, unlike anyone else. But the crowd is so huge; its dwelling places are infinite. If there were an open field, how lightly he would fly, and soon you would hear the marvellous pounding of his fist on your door. But instead of that, how futile are all his efforts. He is still forcing his way through the private rooms of the innermost palace. Never will he win his way through. And if he did manage that, nothing would have been achieved. He would have to fight his way down the steps, and, if he managed to do that, nothing would have been achieved. He would have to stride through the courtyards, and after the courtyards through the second palace encircling the first, and, then again, through stairs and courtyards, and then, once again, a palace, and so on for thousands of years. And if he finally burst through the outermost door—but that can never, never happen—the royal capital city, the centre of the world, is still there in front of him, piled high and full of sediment. No one pushes his way through here, certainly not with a dead man's message. But you sit at your window and dream of that message when evening comes.
What is happening? I just walked into my kitchen and saw a roach the size of my thumb on the wall. I killed it with my flip flop and it's left me a little shaken up. What the [expletive]??
I'm not sure this place is going to work out. Can you break a lease because the place has a bug problem? I didn't sign up for this.
Either your thumb is unusually large or you haven't seen roaches like I have. I thought all roaches were roughly thumb size. Those roach stories I talked about - with hundreds of them scattering in all directions when I picked up a pile of clothes - were thumb size. I had a roommate move in mid semester because my original roomie got sick and had to go home for the year (surprise surprise given the squalor we were living in), and I got the biggest kick out of him jumping out of bed on the middle of the night freaking out as one was crawling on him in his sleep.
They come out at night you know keen. If you get up to pee in the middle of the night I wouldn't turn the light on if you are squimish.
Okay, this image is a guide as the roaches are close to life-size. The biggest I'd seen until last night was the German. Mostly I see the brown-banded. Fortunately the majority I see of both species are smaller than all of these here. But last night I saw the American roach for the first time and it was damn near as big as this image. You're telling me you had hundreds of roaches that size running around in your dorm room for half a year? How the hell did you live like that?
I don't know ... not that big but bigger than the German roach. I only saw hundreds at one time when my parents were visiting one weekend and my Mom was disgusted that I hadn't washed my clothes yet (It was October, they dropped me off in August). She saw a pile on the floor in the closet and when she picked them up ... well I've never seen her move that fast. I didn't know they were under there, but the floor looked literally alive. karp probably saw that when he moved the fridge. I don't know if there were hundreds ... well actually I'm sure there were because we would literally fill up a roach motel overnight. I'm guessing capacity in those at about 20, but those were ineffective after a couple of hours because we once saw a roach walk into the roach hotel and literally walk over his buddies out the other side. Never touched the sticky stuff.
edit - btw my Mom insisted I throw away all of my clothes. She wouldn't even let me wash them - something about eggs living through the wash cycle.
another edit - that oriental roach is disgusting looking. I'll bet it really crunches when you step on it.
