Duck Season? Rabbit Season?
I awoke last night to a rustling of something on my nightstand. It sounded like it might be a mouse chewing the keys off my cell phone. I got out of the other side of my bed and slowly crept to the light switch, kinda dreading that I’d have to illuminate the culprit.
Imagine my relief to find a two inch cockroach rustling around in a piece of paper next to my pillow.
It’s getting warmer now and the overcast skies portend the coming rainy season – which means it’s roach season again. It’s not a matter of filth or poor housekeeping; come a certain time of the year, every household accommodates these huge roach inhabitants. I could probably set traps, but who am I to kill something cause it’s ugly and creepy? I’m pretty much inured to them by now anyway. Except when they show up in my coffee – which happened twice last week. Seems they like espresso as much as I do.
In any case, I’m just happy it wasn’t a mouse chewing my cell phone.
Or a three inch long scorpion, a recent night visitor of Naheed’s.
4 Comments:
That's crazy.
It is good to know that 2-inch-long cockroaches are a seasonal thing. It means I can plan accordingly and avoid South Africa during that season.
There's something about the image of a mouse chewing your keys off of your cell phone that I find amusing. I think it's the subsequent notion that comes to mind of the mouse running off with one or the other and then using it inappropriately - say to lock you in your room or call your boss at work....I haven't been drinking. Well, actually, I have. =]
KILL IT KILL IT KILL THEM ALL DIRTY FILTHY ARTHROPODS. AAAH. i hate them so much i actually get out the vacuum and vacuum them up so i don't have to see them die their nasty, squishy deaths, or see them at all for a single second longer than i have to. then i vacuum other stuff up, and also hold something on the end of the vacuum hose so that the suction increases and i can be sure that they're dead from the pressure.
i'm working on it.
I'm not sure I'd be relieved it was a two-inch cockroach. I think I'd prefer the mouse scenario!
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