eww

2005-03-07 at 2:35 p.m.

We've been noticing bugs in our apartment for a while but didn't know what they were. So yesterday Kim killed three and we had enough so we put up cockroach traps, hoping that it would kill whatever kind of bug they were.

So she opened the cabinet above our fridge to find ten cockroaches and hundreds of tiny baby specks. We freaked out and finally went on the internet to find out what they were.

German cockraches, the hardest to get rid of, the one that lays the most eggs and the one with the fastest maturation period. They also spread salmonella and polio. Excellent.

Our landlord was just here (he came in his post office truck, hehe). All we have in terms of insect repellant is Spider Raid. He went into battle against a colony of cockroaches with nothing but his hiking boots and Spider Raid. Brave man.

And then what came next sent me running into the next room, screaming. He took out a stack of paper plates that were tied up in a bag. Full of babies. Then he took out two of those plastic ice cube trays that you get from Ikea and come in various shapes like stars.

He puts them on the ground. Well, they had formed nests in each little ice cube space. About twenty-five adult cockroaches came crawling out. Ecccchhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

So he killed them with his boots. And I had twenty-five squashed cockroach carcasses on my kitchen floor. He was nice enough to clean it up because I was definitely not going anywhere near them.

I would not have expected this to happen in this apartment. In the surrounding filth of the other one (like living next to a butcher and having a basement) maybe, but not this one. I really hope this is the end of it and that we don't have to get the whole house fumigated.

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