Eeeeewwwww

**demobud** · 4th December 08, 04:30 PM

When my wife and I were newly weds we lived in not the nicest set of apartments in town. Around two thirty one morning, I felt the gentle caress of my new bride gently sweep across my cheek and down to my neck where she began tickling me. I reached up to take her hand intent on an amorous awakening only to find no hand but the biggest darn German cockroach I have ever seen. I screamed like a little girl while levitating out of the bed, scaring my wife half to death.
I have no love to give to cock-a-roachies.

**CDNSushi** · 4th December 08, 05:08 PM

Growing up in Canada, I never saw a real, live cockroach until my first trip to Mexico. Now that we live in Japan, they are very common (and BIG too). The first time we had one in the house, my wife was so freaked out, she was standing on the couch, screaming. I tried to catch it but as soon as I got close, it took flight and flew across to the other side of the room, all the while my wife is screaming, "OHMYGOD!THEYGOTWINGS!OHMYGOD!"

Never found one in my coffee cup though. The closest I've come is a co-worker sadly informing me that we would no longer be eating a restaurant we used to go to all the time for lunch because apparently, the week before, they had been there for lunch and got served a cockroach in their kim chi -- the restaurant didn't even have the courtesy to apologize.

**JamieKerr** · 7th December 08, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by CDNSushi

Growing up in Canada, I never saw a real, live cockroach until my first trip to Mexico. Now that we live in Japan, they are very common (and BIG too).

Where I go camping in Ontario I find roaches just about everywhere I set up camp. BLECH.

Anyway.

Here's a good one from just a couple days ago! I went out to dinner with a colleague from work the other night, and we decided to eat at Friendly's restaurant. I ordered a sort of steak stir fry served over rice. I took a few bites of it and decided it tasted very strongly of fish. I asked my dinner companion to taste it and tell me if she thought it tasted odd, and she agreed that it did. I'd never sent food back in my life, but quickly decided I could not stomach this odd tasting food. I continued picking around at my food until the server returned so that I could complain. As I did so I found an inch long piece of paper in my food. It turned out to be part of the paper wrapper that had surrounded the steak. Written on the piece of paper was the "use by" date, which was out dated! Blech!

**Bugbear** · 4th December 08, 05:09 PM

Yes, the warm, loving embrace of a german cockroach's many arms and legs... So romantic. Reminds me of a Kafka story I once read...

I think they can, though, become addicted to coffee and soda.

**RockyR** · 4th December 08, 05:10 PM

Mmmm... crunchy coffee.

**Keith A** · 4th December 08, 05:46 PM

When I first started on my job 14 years ago my first office was in the basement in the projects. It was a fairly dirty place. One morning I was sitting at my desk doing paperwork when a mouse walked across my desk and wright into my coffee mug. He payed no mind to me being wright there. That was one tough
project mouse.

**kevinkinney** · 4th December 08, 06:29 PM

Sorry Alan,

Not a real problem up here. We had to get a Border Collie though, the squirrels try to move indoors in December. Spray foam insulation was not working any more.

Cheers <ick>

Kevin.

**Frank McGrath** · 4th December 08, 06:46 PM

I was once a maintenance tech for a large Garden Apartment project. It was my job every friday to spray for bugs. We were authorized to use Daizinon 4EC. A very dangerous chemical. We would give notice at 2 months, one month, two weeks, and then one week. I knocked on a door to find the whole family at home. 3 Generations. All there to watch me spray an aptartment where nothing had been removed from the cabinets. During spraying, I happened to knock the lid from a large can under the sink. Roaches poured out like hot lava from a volcano. I sprayed that can until the bugs were all out. They were crawling everywhere. I used at least a gallon of spray in their kitchen alone. To this day, the odor of curry nauseates me. But, a little protein in your coffee can't hurt.