Anyway, I digress. It was late. Probably close to midnight. Art was totally asleep. I turned off my computer and headed for our bedroom trying to be very quiet. Just as I was about to go through the doorway, my peripheral vision caught sight of something high up on the wall that shouldn't have been there.
When I looked above my head I saw the biggest darn roach I'd seen in a long time. It must have been over 9 inches long. OK... maybe that's an exaggeration. Did I screech like a wimpy girl? You bet! Probably woke the neighbors. Did I wake Art? Nope.
I furiously started considering my dilemma. Should I try to swat that huge tank of a cockroach on my own? I'd have to use my hiking boot (the one I haven't used on dirt in 3 years). I'd have to listen to the crunch. I might miss. Then it would fly. It might fall on top of me.I woke Art up.
"You woke me up to kill a roach?????" he mumbled.
Then he saw the roach and said, "Whoa. That is a big one." It was much larger than it looks in the photo. The other photo is blurred probably because my hand was shaking.
He got our fly swatter and smacked it. It fell to the ground.
I screeched again. Sorry, neighbors.
But then it moved! It was still alive. Art put a newspaper on it and smacked it with his slipper to put it out of its misery.
I screeched again. I couldn't help myself. I'm so embarrassed.
Art went to have coffee with his friend, Morris this morning and told him about me and the roach.
Morris told him the roach pales in comparison to the 11 inch centipede that he found on his bed.
Aaaaackkkkk!
Have a peaceful Memorial Day, everyone. However, I'm going to try to wipe this out of my memory.
Whoa ...poor you and the poorer roachy !You do deserve a peaceful day after all this .And also Happy Memorial Day .
ReplyDeleteBTW i am going to google Memorial Day..know nothing about it.
ReplyDeleteEwww. I hate the thought of the guts spilling out after being crushed.
ReplyDeleteOh Kay! How horrible! I am glad I am not the only one who is so afraid of cockroaches. I always scream when I see them in Australia in my daughter's house. I always start killing them furiously. I really hate them.In Indonesia as a child I was very frightened of these brown monsters with those sleek wings and long moving antennas.
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Yuk! The worst things I have to contend with are moths and spiders; I don't much care for either but moths don't flutter once the light goes out and spiders don't move too quickly.
ReplyDeleteUgh! Ugh! Ugh! I'm shuddering. Poor you. I would have woken up my husband, too.
ReplyDeleteAh, now I remember another reason why I left Florida. Nary a roach have I ssen in the Ozarks.
ReplyDeleteI could never kill them in hand to hand combat either. That crunch is awful.
a reason not to live in hawaii...lol! glad your brave husband was able to wake up and rescue you. I hate roaches also...we spray for them and it seems to help.
ReplyDeleteYuck, those are the roaches we have in the Islands.
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived in Puerto Rico and they cut the sugar cane, roaches that size were everywhere in our home. My grandma like to catch them and make them into pets. I kid you not.
ReplyDeleteAt least it was on the wall where you saw it and not on the floor where you could have accidentally stepped on it.
ReplyDeleteI would have screeched, too, Kay! We had bugs that size in Texas, but fortunately I've never seen one here in the northwest! Maybe that's the real reason I moved here so many years ago!! Glad you had Art there!!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely, bug free day!!
Sylvia
Brrr, ugh! I'd have screamed for help, too.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago, my boss rented office space in the warehouse area by the docks in Vancouver, and left me there while he worked at his real job to support the little newspaper he'd just started. Fortunately, I had a cat I brought to work every day, and he killed the cockroaches for me. Vancouver cockroaches are a whole lot smaller than Hawaiian ones, and a much lighter color, but they did crunch when the cat ate them.
— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
I guess I'm the tough guy here. I have never asked a man to kill any kind of bug/whatever in my life. I do it myself. But yeah, they do give me what my mom calls 'the heebee jeebies'!
ReplyDeleteThat was a big one Kay and glad that Art came to the rescue. Think I would have done a little screeching myself, especially if I had found an 11 inch centipede in my bed - yak!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Kay! I'm glad Art came to the rescue and smashed the pesky cockroach to smitherines!! I hate those things too. What a funny story...sorry.
ReplyDeleteHave a great Memorial Day!
No roaches here, just big hairy spiders. Tom is more afraid of them than I am, so I usually get the "squishing" duty. Those darn thigs are fast, but at least they don't fly!
ReplyDeleteLinda: Worse... far worse than cockroaches... I HATE spiders. I won't even go to posts that have photos of them.
ReplyDeleteEverybody: Would you believe that in high school I raised jars and jars of cockroaches and fed them all kinds of things to see how it would affect them?
Some of those roaches got huger than HUGE, but it never grossed me out. It grossed my male classmates out, but not me. I wonder when I lost my guts about this whole thing.
About that experiment. Nothing killed them. They could live off of anything and reproduce like crazy.
I would have woken John up to so he could kill it! That was a huge one!!
ReplyDeleteYuck...I know how big a family tree project is...I am on a break from mine....
ReplyDeleteoh Kay, well I guess you couldn't leave the roach there all night. I shouldn't say this, but I wonder if there are more? Yeeks. they usually come out in the dark I think.
ReplyDeleteNothing is yuckier than such huge cockroaches!! I hate hate them!!
ReplyDeleteHoly cockroach. I would have screamed too.
ReplyDeletea.k.a. B-52's. And yes they can fly.
ReplyDeletePut those boric acid tablets around. Kills that kind. They are called Harris famous roach tablets.
ReplyDeleteKay, even worse than the cockroach in your post is your jar experiment!
ReplyDeleteAh, that's a hoot! I can laugh, we've got our share of bugs. A few days ago I was bitten by a mosquito, blackfly and deer fly on the same day... normally, they have their own seasons further north. SIGH.
ReplyDeleteHi Kay!
ReplyDeleteoh, why are roachs anywhere?
everyone doesn't like them and is scared!
it's not big like man but yes, we're scared!
and I'm not good at being with my mother-in-law.
she is a difficult person and moody....
by the way when did you go back to work after having your children?
I'm going back there in a half and a year.
Aya: I went back to work when my my son was 7 years old so I was at home for 12 years. It was scary going back to work, but I'm glad I did.
ReplyDeleteRoaches can fly???? EEEWWWWWW!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell Kay, there's good news and there's bad news.
ReplyDeleteBad news: that's a rather small specimen, probably just a juvenile. The bigger ones are much larger, tend to fly more (the smaller ones run when you go at them, the bigger ones take wing).
Good news: they are VERY tasty! :)
Oh... and they are excellent toys for my cat, keeps her busy for hours. When she's done playing with them she always displays them in a prominent place for us to find.
walt
Walt: Yiiiiiiiiiiikes!
ReplyDeleteNow that is very large, here they are probably 2 to 3 inches. When my husband was stationed in Hawaii, he reached in a potato chip bag and pulled out a roach with his chips.
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