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You ever live with roaches?

I've given up naming them. I've assigned them numbers.
There are lots of roaches in the deep south in the summer. Roaches as big as rats. Roaches that fly. Roaches that bite people. (OK, maybe I exaggerated with the "big as rats" part but the rest is true.)
Theseus · 46-50, M
@quitwhendone They're called palmetto bugs, and you didn't exaggerate by much! They have ZERO fear of man. If they got any bigger you could saddle and ride them!
@SW-User Don't laugh. We actually have cat-sized rats down here. (No shit.)
@Theseus We have palmetto bugs down here too but they aren't as big as cockroaches.
Mindful · 56-60, F
Yes
Don’t feel bad
It is said they -roaches-are the ones who would survive a nuclear missle explosion... they are probably gatherers of our dna okay maybe not the latter. But roaches are everywhere. If you live in a home with out roaches it is well sealed: crevices are caulked with a sealant, or you live in a new lace and have not dropped crumbs for long. I think roaches are prominent in warmer environments because I don’t see them in the northern part of the state wher I now live.
Anyhow
Sorry to hear about your situation. Try caulking the edge where the walls meet walls and floors and ceilings
swandfriends · 41-45, F
A roach problem is only caused by the nastiest of filth. Old food trash that has sit too long, cat litter, pissy bathroom trash. Only way you can really solve the problem is by cleaning everything with bleach water or some other strong cleaner. Before that though, find the nest and just start killing them as you see them. Then clean, clean, clean. They will find the next filthiest place to go to next. Meaning your neighbors down the street
SW-User
@swandfriends the morons next door is why we have them in the first place
swandfriends · 41-45, F
If you're ever passing by them, you might bring it up and tell them what I told you to get rid of them. Because simply calling an exterminator alone does not work. They don't do what needs to be done
Theseus · 46-50, M
I lived in a rooming house once which was overrun with those little German fuckers. Twice a week I'd set out a bug bomb on my way out to work. When I got home I'd fill up half a grocery bag with their carcasses.
SW-User
One time but i was in jail and i had zero option to move, if i had roaches in my house 🤔 i would leave my keys in the door and never go back, those things are creep af 🔨
No I would positively flip the fuck out and bug bomb the shit out of the house and if that didn't work I'd kill them all with fire.
deadgerbil · 22-25
No. My neighbors had roaches and a couple came over here which sucked.
SW-User
@deadgerbil that's how we got ours. From the people next door
deadgerbil · 22-25
@SW-User I'd get some home defense bug spray and spray down the perimeter of your house, all the doors and windows. Throw some boric acid around in some cracks/crevices and that should help keep them at bay.
SW-User
Oh fuck no 🤮
SW-User
@SW-User girl... get the soap...
SW-User
@SW-User I could not live like that. I'd hire an exterminator.
TheLordOfHell · 41-45
Couple of times. Nasty fuckers

 
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