A cockroach ran over me in bed

I seen my fair share in the restaurant business. big, small.....the big ones look like big crickets....

Byrnzie wrote:

I have a great electric tennis racket-mozzie killer thing. It's fucking great - fries the bastards good!

Those things are the best! Swing away and you'll nail 'em every time. For fun, when my friend and I would kill all the ones in our office we'd open the door to let more in again. Nonstop entertainment!

JaneNY wrote:

Would it work on wasps do you think?

There's only one way to find out! Honestly I think it would. If you blast a mosquito with the racket and it gets stuck on there (instead of falling off) the current will continue to cook it and make a small "arcing current" sound. Methinks that a wasp would have a hard time not succumbing to this.

JaneNY wrote:

re scorpions - when I was 8 there was one in my shower stall at camp, but I only saw it after I finished my shower. (in hill country in Texas)

Lucky. I had a small black scorpion crawl across my neck in OK once. It was about 3AM and some friends and I were camping. We were all awake b/c of a thunderstorm and I felt what I thought was a mosquito fluttering around my neck. I swatted it away and heard something impact my friend's backpack. I turned on a flashlight and there it was.

Funniest part is that we'd not seen one like that before so my buddy picked it up by the tail with his leatherman pliers and was turning it over to get a look when he dropped it. It was about 1/2 inch from falling straight into his boot, which he had unlaced. He jumped about three feet in the air and screamed. Really really wish I had a video camera right then.

I think the only thing worse than a Florida roach, at least to me, are scorpions.
Check this experience out...

I was in the shower the other night, soaking wet from cleaning myself and went to grab my shampoo from the hanging basket over the shower head. I caught a glimpse of something black out of the corner of my eye but continued on with getting the shampoo.

As I brought the bottle down to pour some out, the black thing I saw dropped into the tub. It was a black scorpion about 4 inches long. It hit the bottom of the tub and started towards me. YIKES! I poured huge amounts of water over it with the soap dish until it went down the drain. Freaked me out. What if that thing had fallen onto my head? OMG, I would have had a heart attack. It's been so dry here and he was trying to get to the water. He came out of the wall in a small opening between the ring attaching the shower head and the wall. Needless to say, the opening is there no longer.....
:shock: :shock: :shock:

mca47 wrote:

I hate roaches!!! Ugh!


Ugh!



Here in Scottsdale, the city bombed the sewers in different locations. Cool right? Nope!
It's caused the sewer roaches to crawl up the drains and pipes into people's places! :shock:

None have gotten into my place, but I know a lot of people in really nice places who've had 3 inch sewer roaches crawling around! Bleh!

This girl I'm kinda/sorta-seeing is literally scared to death of them. She's gotten a few, and I have to come over and kill them/get rid of them!

F-THAT!
Ugh!

I'm petrafied of Roaches, I literally freak out, I totally have a phobia! We, here in Scottsdale get the sewer roaches, especially now when it's hot and dry. I try to close up the drains as much as possible, but I bet we get 2 a week. The cats usually get them, but nevertheless, they freak me the fuck out!

Byrnzie wrote:

I got a fly with one one night and it took ages to fry it - like 10 minutes or something. I started feeling sorry for the fly after a while.

I don't know if I'd have the heart to do that, even though I dislike bugs!

Some good scorpion stories.

Cicada killer bees - are those in Chicago? Does anyone know what those big wasp looking bugs in the trees in summer in Chicago are? (I noticed them (and made a point to stay away) when I was in Lollapalooza)

oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.

when i lived in orlando, i had an apartment that was near an oak tree so they would get into my apartment sometimes. i would have to chase them around my apartment with bug spray...bathroom cleaner...whatever i could get my hands on and hope that they would die!!

in tampa i would see them daily scattering around the streets. sometimes they would get into my store...disgusting! just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.