This is not even funny!! (Okay, maybe a little.)

[Shainie]

I went down to do some laundry and the boys had knocked some clean towels from the basket onto the floor. I hate when laundry falls on the floor because I'm always worried about bugs getting into it.

I mentioned to hubby that it was nice to finally get rid of the roaches that were taking over (I made a post about the critters last year.)

I walked over to the window to see what my dog was up to and hubby comes up and slaps my back. What was there? A roach!!! Must have been on one of those towels I scooped up.

I just had to mention the dang things, and there one was. Bleh!!! I immediately got online and ordered up some more pheremone traps. I'm not letting them take over this time! I haven't seen one in months (do they hibernate for the winter? God forbid there are millions of the things sitting in the walls waiting for spring!!! If so, I'm moving! hehe)

[mayfly]

OH my gosh Shainie!!!! I would freak out! I hope and pray I never see a roach. Once I was sitting in the car, and a spider comes dangling down right before my eyes! I was trying to move it without IT getting into my hair!!!!!! I let out the biggest girly scream you ever heard. *shudder* something about creepy crawlies really gives me the willies!

[telos2000]

When I was in college I lived in a roach infested house and the landlord refused to treat it. At night I would go into the kitchen and turn on the light and you could literally see the roaches running for cover. I felt like a white man in the middle of Indian country. You know, where the Indians line up on all the surrounding hills waiting to swoop down on the unsuspecting wagon train! When the lights went out, there would be a scurring sound of thousands of tiny little feet coming down from the tops of the cabinents and out of every crack and crevice.

I tried bait and traps and every natural type fad to get rid of the little buggers, but it seemed like they thrived on everything. I cannot tell you how many times I would put on a shoe and hear a crunch! Only to pull my foot out with little legs dangling from my sock. The straw that broke the camel's proverbial back was when I was asleep one night. I had a dream that I was covered in roaches only to wake up with one camped out on my face. I sprung from my bed to find several more little buggers under the covers. I think they finally decided that they could eat me!

I found another place and fumagated everything that I brought out of that old house so that they would not follow me to my new apartment and exact their revenge out on me for leaving them! I hate them little buggers! Kill them while you can before they decide to come after you!

[mayfly]

OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!! TELOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your bed story is going to stay with me, I can tell!!!!!!!!! I am going to be ripping back the blankets every night!!! UGhhughhughh shudder

[Shainie]

Mayfly - I had the spider thing happen to be before too in the car! They come down from the roof right before your eyes. EEEEK! One time I was in my dad's truck and a really ugly looking spider was coming down from the roof and then fell!! I threw my back out I jerked myself so hard. I pulled over and jumped out of the truck.

If it's just a normal looking spider, I don't have such a problem. I'll grab their web trail and move them out of the way. But if they're thick or multi-colored, forget it!

[Shainie]

Telos - that story is just horrid! lol They surely aren't that bad around here. If I found them in my bed, there would be a "for sale" sign in the front yard.

The worst for me was one day I went downstairs and as I walked across the clear plastic runner on the carpet I saw things moving. There were about a dozen of the things under the runner! I started jumping and stomping until the last one stopped moving.

Oh, I did have the mush in the shoe one day too. I usually make a habit of tapping the heel of my shoe on the floor before putting them on. (Or wear thong sandals!)

[mayfly]

ROFL! My kids asked "why are you laughing?"

[hmsram]

Been there done that with the roach living quarters and would never ever ever ever ever and I repeat ever live in another place like that ... I promise I would live on the street or in my car before living in another "Roach Motel" LOL I have had the bed problem Telos mentioned, the shoe problem , and every other thing you could imagine. I fumageted so much one time the fumes were comeing out of the door cracks LOL ................

[Shainie]

I always pictured roaches only living in run-down apartments or some inner-city house with a leaky roof. lol

So when I first saw them in our house (we have a nice home, bought new out in the country), I was in denial and just called them "beetles".

For the most part they stay in our basement (we have a walk-out). It says the like the food and water you have around, but other than a toilet and the washing maching, there is no food or water in our basement! Not sure why they're here, but I'm hoping they move out. (And I've only seen one in the past 6 months - so I'm still hoping I'm a step ahead of them!)

[hmsram]

Oh forgot to add this earlier...My dad has them so bad in his apartment that I did not even want to sit in the chair, then omg the unimaginable happend I had to use the restroom, could not hold it and was about to have an accident so I went in the restroom ....well lets just leave it at that it was a horrible sight hahahhaha then after my sister told me there is somthign in your hair...I started screaming and ran outside....Then she said Just kidding...I could of killed her ahahahhaah

My dads apt. is a very run day pay by the week, ceiling leaking, 1 room with kitchen bed living area all right there...Its so bad I told him and my step mom if they ever move they can not take nothing from there will have to just walk away with the clothes on their back and throw them away before walking into another living space LOL