Sunday, June 11, 2006

alien bugs and 5am warfare

large amounts of febreeze do not kill roaches.

they do not, however, seem to enjoy windex.

i discovered this at about 5:30am this morning when i awoke to a crackling noise in my room. after turning on the light i found a gigantic lowcountry roach making LOUD CRACKLING noises (was he trying to talk to me?!) on my bookcase.
due to the fact that he was residing on some... breakable items.... and due to the fact that it was 5 something am and i was not in the best state of mind, i did not attempt to beat him with a shoe or other hard object. instead i grabbed the nearest cleaning supplies (we don't have bugspray yet), jumped on my chair (which is what girls do) and let him have it as he crawled away to a spot i couldn't reach.

he's somewhere behind my desk drowning in rainforest falls scented chemicals.
i hope he crackles his way right into the roach trap i slid under there and dies a windex-y death.

i miss being in clemson and living next to andrew and danny who could be called at all hours of the night to kill off whatever giant bug and/or small alien creature that may have invaded our apartment. but here in charleston i have a really nice roomate who comes to check on me when i am engaged in battle with bugs early in the morning and loud strange noises are coming from my room.

and at least now my room smells really clean.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

you aren't home right now, but fyi...i just sprayed him with more febreeze...he's currently on his back..twitching...so i guess it's not dead yet..i sprayed him with febreeze before i read this but he didn't seem to like it...gross bug

alysong said...

VICTORY muahaha!...he is dead. i just checked. maybe we don't need to buy bug spray after all.

Mr. Jenkins said...

yum-ay.