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kali ([personal profile] fictional) wrote2008-07-15 09:49 pm
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OMG just had war with ginormous flying cockroach! AHHHH!

It just would not die! We eventually had to vacuum up its still twitching body, and are now desperately afraid that we only managed to stun it, and now it's biding its time in the bowels of the vacuum cleaner plotting revenge. That or pregant with a million cockroach babies that are going to pour out of the hose next time we try and vacuum something.

I'm too squicked though to actually open up the vacuum cleaner and dispose of the remains. So is [profile] hofnarr
Also, is there ever only ONE cockroach?

[identity profile] semyaza.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes there's one. But there may be one the next night and the night after that. I hate them when they fly.

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
My nightmares thank you ;-)

Seriously though, I never have seen one of them fly before. I thought it was some kind of cockroach mutant at first, especially since it was like two feet long. (Okay, two inches. But they seemed like feet.)

[identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, just to be safe, you could vacuum up some boric acid!

I grew up with the giant flying ones, in Florida - DO NOT MISS THEM.

[identity profile] semyaza.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
The body may be two inches, but by the time you add the feelers and the legs they must be at least four feet long.

They fly in California. *shudders*

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
I would never have thought of that, but it has a certain elegance to it. I think I might actually do it. Seriously.

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Reason #7589537 for me to never live in a tropical or otherwise salubrious climate. I live in a concrete jungle though, so it just seems unfair.

[identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I recommend it seriously! XD

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Reason #399324 that you know you watch too much Doctor Who: when you are seriously convinced that the giant flying cockroach is Not Of This Earth.

[identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's true! It's from Florida!

[identity profile] magnetgirl.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
We were just talking about them flying the other night! Here's what you do: put on heaviest shoe you have, dump contents of vaccum bag onto newspaper laid out on the tiled section of your floor. Stomp with all of your weight onto roaches' body. Grind into paste. You'll know you've got it when you see their whiteish insides.

Don't worry about eggs and stuff, if you see any more of them call your building super about having an exterminator come and spray for you.

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
We were just talking about them flying the other night!

I know! Fucking space roach must have heard us! Yecch. I will try to follow your advice, but eww. Seriously. Ew.

Also, I am sorry, but I ate your leftover sandwich.

[identity profile] genders.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
How can you even talk about a sandwich in the same conversation as that roach-paste suggestion! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhh!

[identity profile] kalichan.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
My hunger is fierce and cannot be defeated by things of this earth? Or from space?

Actually, the juxtaposition was but an unhappy accident. Although I did just finish a book in which they were constantly eating meat paste sandwiches. I don't exactly know what meat paste is, but now...I think you can see where this is going... *scrubs brain*