La cucaracha, la cucaracha...
Ya no puede caminar;
Porque no tiene,
Porque le falta
Una pata para andar.
The cockroach, the cockroach
He can't walk anymore
Because he doesn't have,
Because he's missing
A foot to walk with.
I was awakened at 3:11am by a weird scratching sound in my room. My first thought was "mouse!", but upon turning on the light, I discovered a cockroach crawling up a box that I had just removed from my closet and was sitting in front of my bookshelf. I ran to the bathroom for the ever handy Bengal Roach Spray (shameless advertisement here-this stuff is the best ever and it has no odor!!).
Roaches are amazing, because even after you spray them and you know, and they know, that they are dying, they manage to travel great distances...like from the box to the printer, to back behind the bookshelf...
Naturally, I couldn't go to sleep until he was dead, so I'm up at 3:56am typing a blog about him and waiting for him to die...he's behind my bookshelf now, so I can't whack him with a shoe. And repeated attempts to flush him out with Bengal are failing, so I wait...
I submit that whoever coined the phrase "Everything's bigger in Texas," had just seen a Houstonian coackroach. I wonder...do they have roaches in Venezuela?
4 comments:
Our roaches are definitely bigger and tougher, it seems. That roach just refused to give up and die. I hope you got some more sleep before your alarm went off this morning!
They are like one of the family. They wait for you to come home, and if you don't call them when you're gonna be out late...you'll be sorry.
Oh, and Bengal is the best stuff, but it flushes them out, so spray and beware! Found that out the hard way in the dorm...
The fact that the roach travelled great distances before dying tells me that your roach spray is not good enough! Raid makes them drop dead right there . . . I don't care how it smells! Torture for such a nasty creature is good and all, but for a roach, I'll take the instant death card please!
oh, texas people and their 'bigger than' statements! well, i would have to agree and acknowledge that i used statements like that for my duration in our 'country within a country.' i haven't squashed one in a while, so maybe i will go hunting.
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