Post by High Priestess on May 31, 2016 4:47:11 GMT
Zacharias shared on Anecdotes May 29 2016
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Zacharias2 days ago
These darn roaches
Okay so a week or so ago i was scared a guest would see a roach in my house because its summer season and they scurry inside my dwelling to escape the heat. I pay for a bug spray service every month and keep the play religiously clean. To my utter horror i show a guest to his room and spot a roach. I almost screamed and cried at the same time. I thought it was dead because it wasnt moving and i discretly put my phone over it so the guest wouldnt see it. But oh no it was very much alive. OH MY God! The fat sucker started running around. I stepped on it with my sock covered foot and it was still alive. Ugh! The guests saw it and i dont know what was going through their head but i was mortified. I put it in an envelope and dropped it in the trash. Oddly enough pest control just sprayed two days ago in my downstairs and he asked if i wanted the upstairs sprayed and i declined bc i had guests in all my rooms. Im having him come back in a few days to spray the whole upstairs because ive never had them in my rooms. What to do.
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C C2 days ago
When I started dealing with my second house, some college kids had lived there before me. The roaches were so healthy and plentiful! I pay a high end contractor & don't have any bugs at my house, but I liked to never get the bugs out of that house! No more old houses for me!
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marisa2 days ago
Oh Zacharias, I don't know what I would do. I guess Keep spraying and even if guests are due to arrive, notify them that someone will come to spray on such day to ensure a pest free environment. In my home where I reside, not my ABB listing, I have a detached granny flat and we recently let some acquaintances stay there for two months. Unfortunately their previous apartment had a roach infestation and, so gross, but they must have brought eggs in their belongings bc a week after they left we started seeing baby roaches in the granny flat. So we've been spraying and hopefully it will not escalate. I share your horror and you were brave to even step on it w socks, I honestly rather eat a live snake than come close to "those we don't speak about" (that's what I call roaches). I wish you well!
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Zacharias2 days ago
Thanks Marisa. I had just got home from work and was too tired to run to get a shoe as it would really make a scene. I did some reading and apparently it was an outside roach that could have latched on to someones luggage or shoes on the way in. I still have the exterminator coming on Monday.
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helga2 days ago
Oh, Zacharias, stepping on it, that must be horrible. Crunchy. I had a young male guest once when a very big black hairy spider run across. I cried out for the surprise and the spider run behind the heating and hid there. Normally, I would have left it and captured it later with a glass and a postcard, but because of my cry, the guest was watching. He did not even giggle about an elder women crying out for a spider, it was a really big one. I got it with the vacuum cleaner - and carefully removed the bag and put it in the outside bin, opening on top, hoping that it would climb out before the next trash bag is thrown on it. -)) Shannon told me horror stories about your roaches. Do they survive those plug in poison distributors too?
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Zacharias2 days ago
These darn roaches
Okay so a week or so ago i was scared a guest would see a roach in my house because its summer season and they scurry inside my dwelling to escape the heat. I pay for a bug spray service every month and keep the play religiously clean. To my utter horror i show a guest to his room and spot a roach. I almost screamed and cried at the same time. I thought it was dead because it wasnt moving and i discretly put my phone over it so the guest wouldnt see it. But oh no it was very much alive. OH MY God! The fat sucker started running around. I stepped on it with my sock covered foot and it was still alive. Ugh! The guests saw it and i dont know what was going through their head but i was mortified. I put it in an envelope and dropped it in the trash. Oddly enough pest control just sprayed two days ago in my downstairs and he asked if i wanted the upstairs sprayed and i declined bc i had guests in all my rooms. Im having him come back in a few days to spray the whole upstairs because ive never had them in my rooms. What to do.
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C C2 days ago
When I started dealing with my second house, some college kids had lived there before me. The roaches were so healthy and plentiful! I pay a high end contractor & don't have any bugs at my house, but I liked to never get the bugs out of that house! No more old houses for me!
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marisa
marisa2 days ago
Oh Zacharias, I don't know what I would do. I guess Keep spraying and even if guests are due to arrive, notify them that someone will come to spray on such day to ensure a pest free environment. In my home where I reside, not my ABB listing, I have a detached granny flat and we recently let some acquaintances stay there for two months. Unfortunately their previous apartment had a roach infestation and, so gross, but they must have brought eggs in their belongings bc a week after they left we started seeing baby roaches in the granny flat. So we've been spraying and hopefully it will not escalate. I share your horror and you were brave to even step on it w socks, I honestly rather eat a live snake than come close to "those we don't speak about" (that's what I call roaches). I wish you well!
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Zacharias
Zacharias2 days ago
Thanks Marisa. I had just got home from work and was too tired to run to get a shoe as it would really make a scene. I did some reading and apparently it was an outside roach that could have latched on to someones luggage or shoes on the way in. I still have the exterminator coming on Monday.
helga
helga2 days ago
Oh, Zacharias, stepping on it, that must be horrible. Crunchy. I had a young male guest once when a very big black hairy spider run across. I cried out for the surprise and the spider run behind the heating and hid there. Normally, I would have left it and captured it later with a glass and a postcard, but because of my cry, the guest was watching. He did not even giggle about an elder women crying out for a spider, it was a really big one. I got it with the vacuum cleaner - and carefully removed the bag and put it in the outside bin, opening on top, hoping that it would climb out before the next trash bag is thrown on it. -)) Shannon told me horror stories about your roaches. Do they survive those plug in poison distributors too?
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Deborah