I work on the 25th floor of my building and it's a pretty well maintained building. So I'm walking out of the ladies room and I was pretty surprised to see a cockroach scurrying across the carpet. Of course I start freaking out and run past it towards the doors to our office. It starts running in my direction.
The doors to my office are locked and you either need to be buzzed in our hit the code on the keypad. Freaking out like I'm being chased by a velociraptor I reach the doors and start pulling on the handles and yelling for the receptionist to let me in.
"Open the doors!!"
"What's going on is there a mouse?!"
"No a cockroach, NOW OPEN THE DOORS!"
I know the code for the keypad but I was busy freaking out here.
Once I was safely behind closed glass doors some of my other co-workers come out to see what was happening. We determined that someone should get the roach but none of us wanted to be the one to do it. As we're deciding what the do the Fed Ex guy and the cleaning lady come across the roach. The cleaning lady laughs at us and sweeps up the roach with her broom.
Thank you cleaning lady for not being a wussy girl like me.
I hate those little buggers. I did battle with them in an apartment building in NYC for a whole year. They turn me into a squeamish little girl. I will however hunt them down and squash them.
ReplyDeleteYou may like my cockroach solution. Just a theory.
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that's interesting! We don't really have many crickets around here in the city so you make a good point.
DeleteUm your best friend does not hate cockroaches. Remember that time in my studio? :)
ReplyDeleteYou have a problem. Remember that diagram I drew you? "Roaches lay eggs, kill me!"
DeleteHooray for brave cleaning ladies! We have a nature place not from us that we take the kids too. They will show off their giant hissing cockroaches from time to time. Now, those are the things that nightmares are made of!
ReplyDeleteOh God no way could I handle one that hissed. I can't even handle the non hissing ones.
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