Roaches

[Hungary Jack]

We have a plague of roaches on the inside, rats on the outside, and crooks in City Hall. Welcome back GK!

[G. Keenan]

The worst part about this is my nerves. I can't relax at night when they come out because I'm in a constant state of alert.

[sighyoung]

The worst part about this is my nerves. I can't relax at night when they come out because I'm in a constant state of alert.

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[Tambourine Man]

The bad news is that they will only get worse in the summer months. The good news? That leaves you plenty of time to install a roach-proof hyperbaric chamber to sleep in.

[sighyoung]

Do have a gas stove? Because I bet the little boogers love the heat of that stove. Turn on the oven and watch them fly out!

[a_smith]

get your landlord on that. Dont [expletive] around. They come back and get worse. It also gives your landlord a chance to send an exterminator to the other units and see WTF is going on in them. Maybe there is a modern day Jim with pizza boxes in his closet that the landlord is dying to evict.

buy some roach motels/ sticky traps/

dont leave food out/ sweep up/ get a lizard that eats roaches and let it loose in the building

sigh is dead on as the little [expletive] live in stoves and the backs of fridges.

boric acid in places where they come in-gaps in floorboards etc. It is a bit of a perimeter that they won't cross. But if you have super city roaches, your boric acid may be just the equivalent of a Maginot line, and before you know the little nazis are through the Ardennes and throwing a party in Paris laughing at your stupidity in thinking that they could be stopped.

If that happens, then just read some Kafka and pretend you are a roach or William Burroughs and learn how to get high from extermination.

Oh, as we are posting roach tales, ....when i was at wash u in the early 90s i lived in a crappy west of Forest Park Parkway and near Talanyas(sp?)
god the place was a dump. That place had roaches. I put out glue traps. The little [expletive] would have babies on the them. I would look at the glue traps and see lots of baby roaches trying to escape glue. At least they were dying young.

In that same apt the toilet of the apt above mine came through the ceiling of my unit. Place was condemned.

[G. Keenan]

Nice, the landlord has a pest control guy coming to my apartment tomorrow and tells me that they perform bi-monthly pest control on the whole building, and the next is scheduled for 2/14. I'm not sure how effective that is though given how many of these bastards are in my apartment.

Last night wasn't too bad. I only saw three. I had the apartment lit up like a Christmas tree though, which might have discouraged them from coming out.

[cards2468]

[G. Keenan]

Oh God. Oh my dear God.

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.

[sighyoung]

Oh God. Oh my dear God.

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.

You're in Chicago. Give them bribes to make them go away.