Cock. Roach.

[Fuuka]

I am now enjoying a cold glass of coke but boy was my world upside down just an hour and a half ago.

After riding my bike rapidly home through the late evening, chasing cars on my way, I was looking forward to a quiet night home alone. After parking my bike I see, outside my door, to my dismay, a cockroach. Insects are fine, as long as they stay away from me and my home. 'Fine' I think, 'It's fine, it's outside the apartment'. After entering my home and turning on the light, I see something quickly disappearing under a paper on the floor. It was, without a doubt, a brother or sister of whatever kind of cockroach I had seen just seconds earlier.

Immediately I realized that I had a problem, I think he or she (it) did too, as she rushed under my refrigerator. As warm as I was from my exhausting bike ride in the summer heat, I had no choice but to take a shower, however not before making sure hairspray and a mop were within reach from the shower door.

After the shower I put on some underwear and immediatley started reading on the internet how I could possibly tackle my problem - a cockroach sheltering under my refrigerator. I stumbled upon a story where a man apparently had a small cockroach problem which ended up like a horror movie, literally. Apparently the roaches reproduce quickly and if you see one there are great chances he or she is not solo. I had to rid this insect.

Armed with my cell phone light, a mop, hair spray and a hair dryer I approached the refrigerator. I shone the light in the narrow space between the refrigerator and the wall and right next to the wall I easily noticed two large antennae moving up and down. Creepy.

I moved the refrigerator several times, blew hot air under it with the hair dryer and sprayed tons of hair spray but the little bug persistently clinged to the underside of the refrigerator. After a while it tried to climb up the wall and I furiously attacked it with hair spray. It jumped on to the back of the refrigerator and I kept spraying it. Eventually it fell down and it didn't take long before it abandonned the refrigerator area and headed for the shoes area in the tiny apartment. I chased it but it managed to escape. I searched every shoe and violently moved everything around searching for the lone insect without avail but it was when I lifted the carpet I saw it running again. I managed to get it down where the shoes had been and then I furiously attacked it with the mop. With many fell swoops I managed to deprive the insect of its life, it was finally dead. I flushed it down the toilet together with some tissues.

What a relief.

How do you deal with cockroaches? Do you even have them? This was my first in ages actually. I hardly ever see them.

[CryptKeeperZach]

I don't have em, but I'd stomp em...it works...

[killerjeff]

I call them cock-a-roach

[Lolzer]

I had one in my bathroom two days ago. It dissapeared somewhere, since i'm moving though, i'm not even going to bother to find it. The new owner of the house can get rid of it if he wants. Usually i just stomp or just kill it with a big ass plastic insect killing thingies.

[jjrmet]

Fuck Cockroaches whats the point of them

[dtwin]

I saw one come out from under my bed last week. Little bugger scared the shit out of me, little did he know my commitment to killing his ass. I chased him out of my room, into my sisters room and threw a book at him which ended his pathetic little cockroach life. Then, just to make sure, I beat him with a shoe over and over again until I was sure he was dead.

Happy story, right?

[Fuuka]

At 7/1/11 12:01 PM, CryptKeeperZach wrote: I don't have em, but I'd stomp em...it works...

They run so fast .. they are hard to catch. They are scary, too :(

At 7/1/11 12:06 PM, Lolzer wrote: I had one in my bathroom two days ago. It dissapeared somewhere, since i'm moving though, i'm not even going to bother to find it. The new owner of the house can get rid of it if he wants. Usually i just stomp or just kill it with a big ass plastic insect killing thingies.

I feel sorry for the new owner. Ugh I really really dislike cockroaches! I never really have encounters with them but I feel sorry for those that have them. They are just horrible. If the story that I read about would happen to me I would go insane.

At 7/1/11 12:06 PM, jjrmet wrote: Fuck Cockroaches whats the point of them

I really, really do not know. At one point before everything felt so hopeless. Cockroaches had ruined my life. Now when it's dead it's OK, or better at least.

At 7/1/11 12:10 PM, MikeyS9607 wrote: LOL, We don't have them where I live.
But I was in lanzerote Before Yesterday, and I saw a few. Stupid things.

Lucky you! I never see them but today I saw two in the timeframe of a minute, one of them in my apt :( Unlucky me .. I don't think there are any cracks or anything and the windows are sealed with nets so I hope they have no good way of getting in. My nightmare would be having a growing colony of cockroaches at home. The thought of it alone scares me..

At 7/1/11 12:15 PM, dtwin wrote: I saw one come out from under my bed last week. Little bugger scared the shit out of me, little did he know my commitment to killing his ass. I chased him out of my room, into my sisters room and threw a book at him which ended his pathetic little cockroach life. Then, just to make sure, I beat him with a shoe over and over again until I was sure he was dead.

Happy story, right?

Sounds like you had quite a encounter yourself. I hit the one I met several times too to make sure it was dead and did the mandatory flushing down the toilet that I do to all dead insects. Throwing a insect in the trash or something is a big no-no. What if they have millions of eggs or something?! You never know.

[Gimmick]

I hate cockroaches.

The ones in my house are insecticide resistant, so unless you whack the can of insecticide against them hard, it won't have any effect...I'm currently stomping the little roachlets.
I know it's evil, I feel bad whenever I do that, but if I don't then they'll grow and continue to spread and make it a huge menace! Plus, I bet that roach never wanted to be one anyways, it may have found a new frame to go to, hopefully one that's better.

[Asandir]

Cockroaches don't live in my area, but you can hardly get rid of them.

[saltovergray]

Never had cockroaches. Two months ago though, we had tiny ants. The problem has since been solved.

Although with the warm weather, I can see many bees and wasps building nests near my home. Time to go grab the RAID.

[killerjeff]

Hey fukka. Surprise!

[Boxxy]

Dude, there's such a thing as roach spray you know. Anyways, I hate those things. They're absolutely disgusting. Once I put on my shirt after taking a shower and a roach fell out of it, and not too long ago I saw this gigantic roach on the side of the living room TV, and it flew towards me. There were a bunch of them here but I managed to get rid of them. Absolutely disgusting.

[iateamexican]

I don't have to.
Feels pretty nice.