I feel your pain - last night as I was reading stuff on my computer, something went flying through the air and hit the side of my cheek. I immediately freaked out and turned all the lights on. I thought at first it was a moth but my deepest fears were realized when I saw this bug with wings hiding in the curtains. I knocked it down and then it tried to run (and it was running really fast ) and that is when I knew it was a roach/cockroach. Luckily, I was able to kill it and then I took a shower since the damn thing hit me in the face. I just hope and pray that there aren't more of them in my house.
Keep your home clean and tidy, seal all the cracks around your windows and doors, and floors, only eat in your dining room and kitchen, and keep those areas the cleanest in your home, make sure that there are no wet areas in your home (dripping facets, bathtubs), lay out poison and replace it often, keep your doors closed, and never leave them open without monitoring them. And if you make sure to do all those things, you'll still have roaches in your home, because there's nothing you can do to stop them! Ha ha.
since i moved from houston to austin, i haven't seen any cockroaches in my place (which is a nice change). we did have a cricket problem one year and i find the odd scorpion from time to time.
i just step on them or crush them i prefer to step on them when i am wearing a shoe and crush them using a napkin/paper towel i've had to crush them with my bare feet though before. they bug me but i kill them right away so i wouldnt say i despise them
I found a scorpion in my apartment in college once. I dropped a telephone book on it, and left it there for a long time. After about an hour, I got enough nerve to lift up the book to see if it was dead, but when I did, the SOB charged at me. I flipped out, and threw the book on it as hard as I could, then jumped on the book over and over again. The damn thing finally died, but when I told someone about what happened, they were like "you know, adult scorpions always roam in pairs....." I was always paranoid from that day forward, until the day I moved out.
Interesting, but this thread is about cockroaches. <a href="http://failblog.org/2009/03/29/surrender-site-fail/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15034" title="fail-owned-surrender-fail" src="http://failblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/fail-owned-surrender-fail.jpg" alt="fail owned pwned pictures" width="392" height="500" /></a><br />see more <a href="http://failblog.org">Fail Blog</a>
I usually hammer fist them if they are on a counter top (that's why there is soap). If they are on the ground I stomp them, of course.
that is disgusting dude. why can't you just spend the 10 seconds to put on some slippers or something first?
Cats are pretty good about keeping a house clear of cockroaches (at least the ones that come out that you can see). I was helping my dad board the windows of their house before Ike, and before I had gotten there he went in the garage and started moving some of the plywood that had been sitting in the garage for years. When he did that, a freakin world of cockroaches came scurrying out. Luckily I didn't have to witness that...I only got to see the remnants of the unleashing of a can of raid on the rest of the stack of plywood.
