Afraid of a little ole Roach???
By bird123
@bird123 (10658)
United States
July 24, 2011 12:42am CST
Ah yes, those wonderful cockroaches, can anything really kill them all out?? As part of charity work, we went out to clean houses of elderly people who could not do it anymore. As we were cleaning this one lady's house, I opened a cabinet. There were a billion roaches. You could have filled several grocery sacks full of them. I asked the lady about her roach problem and she said she didn't have roaches. While she told me this, I saw a roach crawling on her head. Old age leaves one blind to many things. Well it was world war three against the roaches and we cleaned her place up. I felt like roaches were crawling on me all day after that.
Now there are cockroaches then there are these Giant Flying Monsters. When one of these start to crawl or fly toward you, it's just like on a monster movie. One cold cold winter in another neighborhood subdivision, they were having problems with the sewers. It was clearly the city's problem so they came out. When they removed the sewer manhole cover, there were millions of these giant roaches standing upside down on the sewer lid. That is the day I discover. COVER THE DRAINS IN YOUR HOUSE!!!! These bugs are large enough to swim the water trap in your drains and walk right in your house. So when you see one, let's not forget where that guy has been.
So tell me your bug nightmares.
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@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
24 Jul 11
We had a number of spiders trapped in a cage in our classroom as a show and tell my classmate brought when I was in gradeschool. One time when the janitor was cleaning he bumped the cage, which is made of glass by the way, and the cage broke and the spiders got away. After that we had to watch where we were sitting before we start the class.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
27 Jul 11
I think I heard one of my classmates that some of them were indeed poisonous.
@divineathena (1746)
• United States
24 Jul 11
Your description of the world war 3 with cockroaches must be given a place in our history books. Didn't the cabinet smell bad? As far as I know, billion cockroaches in one place means bad smell!
I was always scared of cockroaches. Although they can shave off someone's hair from head they don't bite. I am not sure, maybe they do. I did not study about them. We have scorpions in our house. They do not show up all the time, but when they do I feel like calling 911
.I definitely do not want them near me. I also saw centipedes in the house we moved to. They look scary and they bite. I found one on my bed for which I could not sleep some nights. The man who owns this house seriously needs exterminators.
.I definitely do not want them near me. I also saw centipedes in the house we moved to. They look scary and they bite. I found one on my bed for which I could not sleep some nights. The man who owns this house seriously needs exterminators. @bird123 (10658)
• United States
24 Jul 11
To be honest with you, the elderly lady's entire house smelled really bad. There was no doubt she needed something done. I could never ever have stayed in that house with it like it was. I don't know whether roaches bite, but some chewed through the plastic wrapped on a loaf of bread and were in with the bread. You could see the little holes in the plastic bag. I guess I am lucky. I have never had to deal with scorpions and centipedes are rare.
@divineathena (1746)
• United States
25 Jul 11
When I was a kid a teenage male half bald used to come to visit my parents. He was my mom's distant relative. According to my mom, the guy's hair was shaved off half by roaches. It happened at night while he was asleep. My mom said hair never grew in that spot of his ever. I thought that was creepy and sad. I hope the elderly lady's hair is still safe and sound. But yes, I don't think this is the end of roaches in her house. They lay eggs. So you know they just left their love signs somewhere in her house.
@bird123 (10658)
• United States
26 Jul 11
Interesting. I never heard about hair like that. The elderly lady's hair was a bit thin but seemed all there. WE really worked over her house. It will be a while before it gets back in that shape again, however I think you are right that it's just a matter of time.
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
24 Jul 11
Back when my God daughter was growing up I used to be really close friends with her Mom. The problem became where she quit caring about the condition of her house, and complained because no one would help her. The place was so grouse and filthy it was not funny. There were cockroaches in everything. In the microwave, counters, etc. She brought the microwave over to my place as I was watching her daughter for the weekend and you could see the cockroaches in between the glass partition for the door.
It was too much. I could not handle seeing a 12 yr. old having to live in a home like this, and called CPS. Nothing was ever done about it though, and to this day her Mom never knows it was me who called. Still grouses me out to even think about it.
@birdie816 (1276)
• United States
24 Jul 11
EEEEEEWWWWW!!!!! i hate roaches so much. they are like the most disgusting things i've ever seen. especially when they are really big. i currently live in an apartment, so other people's roaches sometimes come in our apartment and it is so annoying and gross.why should i have to suffer because somebody else is dirty? anyway you pretty much illustrated my worst nightmare when you said the part about the billion roaches in the lady's cabinet. i might have literally passed out if i had seen that
@bird123 (10658)
• United States
24 Jul 11
Yes, That old lady thought she didn't have any. It's a nightmare when you think about her going to get a glass from that cabinet. For several days after that experience, I could almost feel them crawling on me. EEEEEEWWWWW!!!! Is right!! I know they weren't but seeing so many works on a person's mind. I wonder how long it takes to get that many in a house. It's a good monster movie indeed.
@birdie816 (1276)
• United States
25 Jul 11
lol yeah that is pretty much how to describe it (as a monster movie). it would proabably make millions cuz that is like everybody's worst nightmare so it's be sure to scare people. and i too have experienced feeling like things are crawling on me when there is clearly nothing there. very strange
@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
25 Jul 11
Hi bird: That's so disgusting but thanks for sharing with us your tips. Roaches are not part of my nightmares but for me they are one of the most disgusting animals on earth. I was educated to hate them and they are synonim of illness and dirty also with rats. Thanks God my house is clean. Cleaning the house of someone that didn't realize that it was infected by roaches is a really good action.
ALVARO
@changjiangzhibin89 (17241)
• China
24 Jul 11
I am disgusted at the cockroaches too, which come out at night for food and give off a terrible smell ,what is more,spread diseases.Here,We use a kind of cockroaches pen for coping with them.The pen that can be bought from store is like a chalk .The pen is used to draw lines at the place where cockroaches frequently come and go.It does its work amazingly,we see nothing of the cockroaches.
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
24 Jul 11
I found out in my old apartment that if you spray WD40 on them, they will die. They don't like the smell and after I sprayed one with the Wd40 and killed it, I never saw another and I lived in that apartment a couple years. I used Wd40 because it was the closest thing to me when I was cooking and saw the roach and it freaked me out because I hate those things.
