Mon 14 January 2008 - Eugh
4:30am.
Something.
Something crawling on my face.
Swipe with hand. Like a shot, out of bed, turn on light.
Cockroach on bed.
Swearing ensues.
Oh gawd, yuck.
Two people I know, and some bloggers have noted the recent presence of cockroaches, despite keeping clean kitchens. I think the little bastards are getting more daring.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:53am
Daniel
Yuck is right!
Rog.
PS Stop eating those late-night snacks in bed. The blighters go for the crumbs!
January 14th, 2008 at 10:41am
My cockroach was only in the dishwasher. You win.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:30pm
As I noted previously cats find roaches and other scurrying critters smaller than themselvs to be delightful playthings that are to be batted about and eventually killed. May I suggest getting one as a good pet and pest patrol. While watching TV one night I noticed my cat Julia staring intently at the bed next to me. I wondered what invisable thing my silly cat was looking at on the sheet. It turned out to be a lone small ant that I probably would never have noticed myself. She saved me from sleeping with it!
January 14th, 2008 at 4:33pm
On holiday in Coffs Harbour, I once had a cockroach in my bed come awful close to crawling up my shorts…
January 14th, 2008 at 6:39pm
Oh yes, I’ve had the exact experience that you describe. Lovely, not! It could be worse though, my brother had a huntsman try the same thing once…
January 14th, 2008 at 7:27pm
*shudder*
Almost as scream-worthy as the huge huntsman on my hand in the car.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:28pm
Yeah, I’ve noticed the same and had other people concur. Seems to be a lot more of the blighters around this year where they previously were not.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:59am
One of the buggers almost got into the bread yesterday - the two slices that were left went into the compost, couldn’t bring myself to eat them. Then one each came in from the ceiling fan in the bathroom and toilet. I do not want to think how many are sitting up above us as we sleep! That’s on top of two I killed the day before. They’re definitely keeping up a strong campaign of infiltration.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:05am
ugh. yep. been there.