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You won’t believe this… October 30, 2005

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…actually, you will.

Christie decides to clean the kitchen today. Clean as in “Spring-clean”, so it’s everything off the benches wipe things down and so on. She even polishes the kettle. That’s dedication.

After polishing the kettle, she picks up the base to wipe it over, and lets out a little scream. A cockroach runs out from under it. So she does what any self-respecting girl does and calls me over, flapping her arms.

I get out the Mortein, spray it, and it dies. Problem solved. I go back to my study.

A minute later another little squeal. Now she’s whacking the base of the kettle against the sink.

I walk over and look, and there’s cockroach after cockroach falling out of the little plastic base and tumbling into the sink. They’re all sizes, little babies to full adults. I spray them all. Then, we start spraying the base and all hell breaks loose.

Cockroaches are running everywhere. It’s all on and we’re taking no prisoners. The flood becomes a river, becomes a trickle and then stops. Nothing’s moving. We spray until the base is flooded in Mortein and becomes a black pool of cockroach death. Then we flood it with water. Baby cockroaches start floating to the surface. Bodies still, they trickle down the drain. We flood and empty their home until nothing else comes out.

Then we take a look at the toaster…

Comments»

1. Eb - October 31, 2005

That’s disgusting. Remind me never to go to your house.

2. andy - October 31, 2005

It’s not that bad really. I sterilised their home with water and heat. Then I had a cup of tea.

3. wilkoza - November 1, 2005

replace the kettle with your face, and you’ve got a horror movie!

4. Chris - December 10, 2005

Sometimes this stuff is out of your control. I had a similar issue once. I lived in a row-style building with 6 units. It was so bad that I sat on my sofa w/ Raid can on the coffee table at all times. I even recall waking up with a roach on my lips. I demanded that the landlord spray and spray again, but nothing worked. Just as I decided to break my lease with this slum lord, they’d evicted a person on the bottom floor. She, evidently, had fallen ill and her apartment was in complete disarray. Her apartment was the source of the roach problem that spread throughout the whole building. This was about 10 years ago. I jogged by that building the other day, and it is now being gutted and the insides are being completely rebuilt.

5. Dennis - December 12, 2005

Helpful homemaking tip:

There is a safe, homemade formula for controlling cockroaches. I hate spraying insecticides in my eating/food prep areas.

Mix 1/3 part borax powder, 1/3 part flour, 1/3 part cornmeal and a dash of powdered sugar.

Sprinkle the mixture in the places cockroaches like to hide. The borax will kill them. Borax can be found in boxes in the laundry detergent aisle at the market. It can be used for lots of other things too.

Bay leaves repel cockroaches.

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