Rodents

[OCBuckWife]

Pfft. Snap traps can't catch 3-4 mice AND a couple of cockroaches for good measure in one sitting.

If my house has even one cockroach in it, everyone lives somewhere else for a week while I bomb the entire place. Twice. And then again next month. I don't fuck around if I see a cockroach. I don't jump up on a chair but do tend to throw things at them......

 

[Deety]

If my house has even one cockroach in it, everyone lives somewhere else for a week while I bomb the entire place. Twice. And then again next month. I don't fuck around if I see a cockroach. I don't jump up on a chair but do tend to throw things at them......

I took some summer courses at a college with a serious roach problem. Not in our top-floor rooms, thankfully, but it seemed they let the exterminators have the summer off. A group of us were walking to another building after dark and kept hearing paper shuffling... until we tripped a motion light and saw there were hundreds of roaches scrambling out of our path in front of us. Not quite sure how we made it back to the dorm, but I don't think anyone slept that night. So creepy.

In case anyone remembers an earlier story, this wasn't Longwood. Jo's college was very pretty and vermin-free.

 

[OCBuckWife]

A group of us were walking to another building after dark and kept hearing paper shuffling... until we tripped a motion light and saw there were hundreds of roaches scrambling out of our path in front of us. Not quite sure how we made it back to the dorm, but I don't think anyone slept that night. So creepy.
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My thing with roaches come from when I was 11, living in a house in Florida (Destin I think) and the house was on the edge of a piece of saw palmetto swamp land. The house was old and just infested from previous tenants but it wasn't JUST household roaches. It was those big, flying, palmetto bugs that look just like roaches. I remember waking up late at night, needing a drink of water, and dreading getting it. Going to the kitchen, putting one hand over one ear, snaking my hand around the corner to the light switch and BARELY touching it to flick the light on. AT the same moment, that hand flew to cover my second ear and I would crouch down, squeeze my eyes shut, and wait for a solid minute so the bigger ones had enough time........yarg. That noise......your image just made my skin crawl, Deety.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I could care less about mice, rats, snakes...etc...

If I ever see a roach in a place I live, I'll buy a fucking flamethrower.

My skin just jumped off my body and took off running.