Roaches

[Radbird]

We don't have roaches in Colorado.

Just sayin'.

[sighyoung]

They're like little elves in the shoemaker's shop. They're trying to write a novel for you. Let them in, leave the computer on, and in twelve months, you'll be partying with Brian Lamb on C-Span.

[cardinalkarp]

Roaches dont really come out much during the day. We had them in one of our places when in college & we would rarely see them during the day but at night after the lights were out those things came out like crazy.

[jim]

When I was in college I lived on the 17th floor of an 18 story dorm - the 18th floor being the cafeteria. Those little bastards would crawl up the wall heading for food. We would put the roach motels out but they would fill up so fast the little [expletive] would just crawl over the carcasses of their brothers.

Nobody could figure out where they were coming from, mostly my room although my neighbors said they got a few. Then one day for some reason I got some inspiration and decided to do laundry for the first time on over a month, and I moved the pile of clothes that had been sitting in the closet along with some pizza boxes and what not - and I swear the floor looked alive. HUNDREDS of them. All scurrying about.

After that the incident rate went down in my room but then everyone on the floor complained of more roaches. I never told anyone where they came from. Everyone suspected it was the fat asian kid with the giant porn collection and the private room who never talked to anyone.

[Freed Roger]

When I was in college I lived on the 17th floor of an 18 story dorm - the 18th floor being the cafeteria.

Cafeteria on the top floor seems like a bad idea.

[jim]

It was. I saw a roach getting on the elevator once and I'm not making that up.

[Freed Roger]

Bill Hicks quote:

I picture nuclear war and two things surviving: Keith (Richards) and cockroaches!

[Swirls]

GK, you should befriend them like in Joe's Apartment. They can help you pick up felon MILFs, so you can take them back to your place and won't have to deal with the awkwardness when their kid jumps on the bed in the morning to watch cartoons.

[Hungary Jack]

[G. Keenan]

You live in the city, right? Chicago has a very tenant friendly landlord/tenant ordinance. If your landlord doesn't do anything, you should check that out.

Yeah. When I moved in last week there were a few odds and ends that needed fixing and the landlord fixed them immediately, so that's a good sign. Hopefully they'll do something about the roach situation quickly. Last night was freaky. I decided to come into the kitchen on a seek and destroy mission after the lights had been off in there for a few hours. I saw 4 of the bastards scurrying around and killed them all. Maybe others saw it and will take heed.