*I had a completely different blog post for today. But, after a harrowing experience yesterday, I decided to share this instead. Below is an email I sent to my friend to try to work through the trauma*
The story of why we are moving out today.
By Dawn Alexander
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| The puppy is the tan one. She's 5 months old. |
The puppy is getting better on house training, but still has accidents. Friday, I was playing with her on my bed and she got excited and dribbled..alot. So, had to wash the bedspread. Huge-heavy-denim-takes-FOREVER-to-dry bedspread. Usually, I wash it, put it in the dryer for a cycle, take it out and turn it over, put it in the dryer for another cycle, then spread it out on the spare couch for a day before putting it back on our bed.
Well, around 7pm on Friday night, I basically fell into a coma and slept until Saturday morning, then spent the day running errands all day on Saturday, so when I remembered to take it out Saturday evening, it smelled kind of mildewy. I spread it out in the laundry room and left it all day yesterday. Still slightly smelled this morning, so I put it back in the washer. Immediately took it out, cycle in the dryer, flipped it, cycle in the dryer.
Decided to spread it out on our bed instead of the spare couch because I've got boxes of pictures all over the couch right now (whole other story).
Took it to our room, started spreading it out and FREAKING COCKROACH FROM HELLLLLLLL came crawling out of one of the folds!
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| It looked JUST LIKE THIS! Only bigger with more teeth! |
Let's just say, I might have screamed like a little girl and did the heebie-jeebie sprint into the living room
Scott, being the hero he is, drowned it in bug spray and flushed it.
So, new to-do list for today:
BURN BEDSPREAD
MOVE
I'll send you our new address.
For my non-Texas readers, there is something very important you must understand. We do not have little scurry-when-the-lights-come-on cockroaches here. We have I'm-looking-for-water-and-will-kill-your-whole-effing-family-to-get-it Palmetto bugs.
I was going to add more pictures, but just looking at them was freaking me out!
I was going to add more pictures, but just looking at them was freaking me out!
So, tell me your story.
Any fascinating encounters with our insect friends you'd like to share?
You can read about me other creature encounter here.
3 comments:
Hahahaha! Sorry, I don't mean to laugh at your pain, but that's pretty dang funny! Thanks for sharing your traumatic story--I hope this therapy has helped you get over the shock :)
At least it's not cricket season. They're even worse than the roaches.
It is, however, scorpion season .....
Oh, if it had been a scorpion I would be in a hotel right now. No joking!
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