A huge roach just crawled over my bare foot

Sitting here at my desk in bare feet and felt this ominous tickling sensation which made me leap out of my chair and yell an obscenity because in my heart I knew what it must be. Saw a gigantic roach skuttling away toward the kitchen. Managed to get to my can of Raid in time to kill the b&stard before it disappeared under the stove. But damn what a thing to lay on my mind just as I'm going to bed. I just know I'm going to dream of roaches tonight 
 
In other news, I blame the scruffy hipster next door 

Reminds of an excellent book I read in school......
 

 

I think this was an Asian one. There's definitely not an infestation of them like you get with the small ones. I go in a lot of people's apartments for work and it's surprising how many people just seem to tolerate roach infestations. You see them zipping along the countertops and in the sink and crawling up the walls. They make me wince big time.

The other night I had a daddy long legs on my wall. I hate those buggers too - way too gangly and spindly for my tastes. And they move at a terrifying speed, I just don't feel safe lol....

The ones down south are huge. We had em'  when I was growing up and I hated them. Lots of homes down there built on block foundations with no basement because the water table is so high, so the roaches can usually find a way in from underneath. They can get  2 1/2" inches long or longer and they fly. They like the darkness so I would look up and see one on my curtain in the bedroom at night and a few seconds later you would hear it fly across the room hoping it wasn't landing anywhere near you. I get the crawlies just thinking about it. My dad still lives down there and he isn't the most aggressive at eliminating them. The last time I was down there there was one on it's back laying on a counter presumed dead. I didn't want to touch it and he didn't move it, so there it lay for like three days. Finally I could take no more and decided to use a cloth to pick it up and flush it down the john. The bastard came back alive when I picked it up and fought to stay out of the john. This really creeped me out that it layed there unmoving for that long and came back. Must not have been dead.
Thankfully the place I live in now is so far insect free other than the few ants that come to the counter in the summer time and the occasional small spider.
I can't tolerate roaches. I'd be calling the exterminator or setting off a mist bomb. 
 

kennywtelejazz
Guitar pedals , amps , stereo gear , mixers ..you can name the type of gear ....it doesn't matter 
 
 
The suckiest thing about roaches besides the creepiness factor is they love to nest and breed in electronic gear
 
Kenny

I have stories to tell about roaches in electronic gear.......when I work doing service call TV work down south.....but you Kenny after you turn it to 9 with the Gibson made em' want to get out of there.
 

soens
Some keep them as pets
 

 

Mesh
Reminds of an excellent book I read in school......
 

 
That was no dream!

SOENS!!! I've had my helping of creep mania for at least a year.

Does that one smell funny?

Luckily you weren't bare and crawling over a huge roach.
 
For some reason people around here call the really big ones water bugs but they just look like huge damn roaches to me. And they do fly.