dseann said:

OH GOD ...

tinaz said:

Obviously one has never flown across your face. It's a smell you can't forget. Even if a roach crawled across something you'll know because of the scent.

roaches gotta eat, too.

magnificentSynthesizer said:

Yeah, but why should they eat me?

dseann said:

No, that hasnt happened to me

tinaz said:

I'm with you Tinaz...
fug them!

thejason said:

Folks that don't live in the South don't understand. When it gets REALLY hot and or when its warm and rains like crazy, them fuckers are EVERYWHERE!

I have a friend that went to Alabama state and she told me the roaches were as big as her hand, and fearless. She said they didn't move when you came out of the dorms. They just sat around until food dropped. There is a difference between filth roaches (small) and hot/humid roaches (palmetto bugs). Them fuckers are so big!

We moved into a brand new house so no palmettos. We also have a bug guy come twice per quarter for prevention. You northerners and midwesterners may not understand our pain of critters But bug prevention services are a mainstay out here.

I can swim in an ocean of daddy long leg spiders before having to deal with a roach on that level

heybaby said:

I lived in an apartment building that was infested with them.

When you live in a building with other people, once one apartment has them, that's it, everybody has them.

"The Scatter" (you know what I'm talking about, you turn on the light and they fucking scatter) is one of the most horrible things to see first thing in the morning, ever.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

My aunt that lives in San Diego says tarantulas and scorpions get in her laundry room.

Do you experience that?

PunkMistress said:

And when your nasty neighbors move out, they go to other apts since their gravy train is gone. We had the exterminator on speed dial.

TheVoid said:

Well I saw it! Its further evidence that you are converting damn it! I aint coming back as one of those things!

dseann said:

You might want to refrain from sweeping generalizations! Here, they also prefer damp dark spots, older buildings, crowded cities etc....

KatSkrizzle said:

Thank you for letting me know what area NOT to move to in the future.

Growing up I thought having roaches was normal. Really. Then I realized that not everyone lived in public housing.

I learned that those roaches bite from that show that used to dare people to eat all types of crazy stuff and do gross stunts.

I forgot the name but there was a Valentine's day show where couples scooped up roaches in their mouths and passed them mouth to mouth to fill a cup to win a challenge.

The roaches where biting them in the mouth!!!!!


FYI> Where I live those sucker come out the ground in the spring. I live by the water, and when it rains, they try to come in. so I bleach my doorways, re-caulk, and keep my screens shut TIGHT around this time of year. Otherwise I'll find one of those suckers (American Roach) in my bathtub or toilet. Eww eww eww eww! I am allergic to roaches and absolutely terrified of those damned things.

My pest control guy told me they die in 5 days above ground, but hell no, just hell no!

My pest control guy told me (yes I am best freinds with him now! F%#@ That!)
that roaches are attracted to water... Peb, that roach might have been trying to drink the water from your lovely locks and just bit you arm pit trying to get the water droplet if you were out of a shower and damp.

paintedlady said:

I remember finding dead ones behind my couch, in my book bags, in my sneaker....after I took it off after a work out!

I lived in a bottom floor apartment that was right in front of a lake. I though oh how nice! Scenery! Until the dead heat of summer came and those fuckers started hanging out in my AC. I also had a bad mold issue in that apt and I'm almost positive them fuckers were living in the walls and in the floors.

I think there's probably mold on my lungs from that apartment and that nasty building I worked in. Mold every where. Fucking HATED Charlotte...

KatSkrizzle said:

:screaming in horror at the shoes comment: At least you didn't get bit.
I am on the first floor now, and I know they must be in the basement. Yup, I am across the road from a beach and in an old building that's moist. I love the beach, hate the roach/mosquito issue.
I thank my blessings that I don't have mice/rats. They grow HUGE here. You would thing its too freggin cold for those bitches here.
[Edited 5/13/10 21:14pm]

dseann said:

man thank God im in California

KatSkrizzle said:

I had tarantulas in my bedroom and kitchen and scorpions in my kitchen when I was living in Trinidad. And the cockroaches were huge .

PunkMistress said:

They like to FIGHT, too

When I lived in Florida I used to go toe to toe with those suckers; when they fly at you if you can't swat them fast and hard enough, they will go at you for a good 3 rounds. Can't stand those pr-historic Bedrock lookin' fuckers

DesireeNevermind said:

When I lived in Florida I always had my apartments professionally exterminated (I didn't trust the people the landlords would send, it was like they were using the same RAID you can find at the supermarket ) Anyhoo, the bug man told me that palmetto bugs live primarily outside in Florida, and generally only enter houses/buildings in search of food, sort of like looking at your home or business establishment as one big ass food place that they can shop at, have some take out and then take their asses back home afterwards. For me, they would always fly right in if the front door or unscreened window was open (especially while frying food), and then an epic battle between good an evil would ensue . Those fuckers will actually attack you an are not afraid to defend themselves...with their nasty little wings If you go in on one they fly right at you like, "oh yeah, bitch??? okay show me what'cha got "

They traumatize me

KatSkrizzle said:

It's true. When I lived in Florida I used to use Sears Pest Control. I don't know how much they charge now, but back then it was the best $400 a year in vested in my life. They only had to come out once a year, and had guaranteed service with free revisits if I ever saw a single insect in my home. Sears totally rocked

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Well, I grew up in New York and I know that there is a different kind of roach crawling around up there. They're usually the smaller and more numerous German Roach or what the Germans call the French Roach, and they love rotting food, garbage and rotting buildings (filth), there is a different roach in the Caribbean. When the smaller ones show up down here from things being shipped from America, they are referred to as American roaches and are zapped to the great beyond as quickly as possible. It bad enough putting up with the big ones in your home once every three weeks, but a million little ones all the time would drive me insane.

I don't do roaches or crickets.....

Serious said:

all true.. it felt like a bee or a bull ant sting..
and i havent been feeling too good since then either
i was told to watch the bite area to make sure it doesn't get infected

MADAGASCAR HISSING COCKROACH

peb319 said:

That was my main concern too . You sure should do that.

SHOCKADELICA1 said:

Some in Trinidad were bigger than this one. Thank God not the one that bit me which was a little smaller, but not much.