There is a strange animal under my bed....

[Divinity]

This makes me think back to my apartment in Sevilla. All tile floors and I pick the dead of winter to move there. Well come March, it gets warmer and my family visits and literally the day after they leave it happens. I'm having breakfast and a roach the size of...hell it's just huge... crawls out from under the bottom cabinets and under the hideaway bed I had been sleeping in NOT 24 HOURS AGO. Oh God. I lost my appetite. Chucked my half eaten bowl of cereal and ran upstairs to fetch my landlord, Fernando. My spanish is 3rd level high school spanish so gestures help get my point across. His wife could hardly keep from laughing and Fernando was laughing while going downstairs to the now roach's apartment. I didn't even go in - I watched from outside. He lifted the hideaway bed and...no bug. He looks at me like I'm crazy. I remind him gesturing wildly that it's a hideaway bed and he proceeds to shake the damn thing until the roach comes flying out hitting the floor and running around. Fernando asks for paper and I went in for literally .01 seconds to hand him a newspaper and I'm out watching him run around trying to smack the damn thing dead. He kills it and scoops it up and walks past me....I backed up like 40 feet. He comes back from chucking the body outside and I thank him profusely while he walks back upstairs...shaking his head and chuckling. Glad HE found it funny.

 

[MACATTAK]

I'm so glad to hear you have a cat rbella! Keep that cat in your room at night until the mystery creature is found.

 

[purrtykitty]

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Originally Posted by rbella BTW, shouldn't my damned cat have gotten this? Useless.

My cats would've *maybe* chased it, then lost interest because...well there's a butt somewhere that needs licking.

You seem to have made it OK through the night, though. I hope Mr. rbella does a better job checking for creepy crawlies tonight!

 

[elegant-one]

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Originally Posted by rbella Perhaps, but you are the only person I know who would look lovely while spewing pinot noir out your noggin.

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Originally Posted by purrtykitty My cats would've *maybe* chased it, then lost interest because...well there's a butt somewhere that needs licking.

 

[SkylarV217]

My creepy Crawly fear is based upon a news report I saw when I was like 5 lol... I am and always have been terrified of snakes... And I always have this irrational fear that there will be one in the toilet .... lol

We go to national parks and such often so they have those outdoor toilets and I have this mental image of me above a toilet with a snake clamped on to my backside wiggling around ...

Every time i go to use a toilet I check .... especially in the dark ... Bugs and spiders don't get me ... just snakes

 

[MiCHiE]

Skylar, if I had never seen Creepshow as a child, I may have grown to be somewhat "normal" when it came to roaches.

 

[urbanlilyfairy]

omg this thread is hilarious..sorry for your crazy creature but you ahve me loling so hard hehe.

 

[florabundance]

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Originally Posted by rbella Oh Sweet Jesus, what a nightmare!!!!!! My sister just told me a story about a woman who lived in Florida. She had forgotten to roll up the windows in her car when she was at work. She got in the car later that night to go pick up a friend and go to dinner. Well, she was driving down the street and kept hearing these weird noises but couldn't figure out what it was. When she picked up her friend, her friend opened the door and the car light came on and her back seat was COVERED in big ass roaches! I actually dry-heaved last night when my sister told me that story.

That actually makes me want to cry!
I hope that little whatever it was is out of your house by now too, but I have to say no bug is worse than a mouse in the house. Our neighbours garden is never cleaned, the lawn never mowed and the house is filthy also (we once - and ONLY once - volunteered to water their plants and stuff while on vacation), and however it happens, every year or so we (and our other neighbours) have a mouse invade our house. They generally come into the kitchen as our kitchen leads to the garden, but EUGH they fucking terrify me and just make me sick and jumpy and thinking that i'm seeing something when i'm probably not.
How do you tell your neighbours to clean their dirty ass house and yard up without being rude. They actually also came round to us and a few others on our street to politely inform us that there may or may not have been a dead RAT in their house.
I mean

 

[Susanne]

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Originally Posted by rbella I totally see why you would think this, but it is more of an issue of him thinking I need to "man up". How sad is that? He doesn't understand my insane fear of insects, creepy crawlers, flies, bees, etc. He thinks I'm over dramatic. I swear a roach could crawl on his lap and he would pet the damn thing. Just kidding, in that case he might stop watching his show to kill it.

But I do

Since one year now I am living on my own. If there is a spider in my flat I try to catch it with a glass and a postcard. And it can happen that I throw the spider together with the glass out of the window

Uups...

 

[PolyphonicLove]

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Originally Posted by ratmist The only phobia I have is an acute fear of cockroaches. The ones where I grew up could fly short distances. I once had one fly up and get caught in my hair, right next to my right ear. I screamed and screamed while the thing fluttered about my face, trying to get free. It was terrifying. I'm pretty fearless about creatures, but I go completely weak at the sight of a roach. I remember it fluttering around my face and I freeze with fear. I can't even squish them, I'm so scared of them. I was *this* close to walking out of WALL-E as a result of his little cockroach friend.

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Originally Posted by ♥MiCHiE♥ rbella, you are not alone. As a matter of fact, this whole thread is creeping me the hell out, LOL. I am terrified of roaches. I just moved into my house in June and I was slowing doing it because I was waiting on Brinks, cable, internet and appliances....So, everyday I would bring what I could and set up...Well, there was one damn roach that was in the kitchen cabinet every day. And it had the nerve to slowly crawl away like, "This bitch needs to stop opening and closing my damn door!" I had gone to Lowe's and gotten the Orthro bug spray that my inspector advised and began to spray. Well, 2 roaches crawled out....one from I don't know where and another from behind the stove. The (fearful) woman in me asked, "What have I gotten myself into, buying this house? I can't live here with these roaches!" while the homeowner part of me was saying, "You better man your ass up and let them know whose house this is!". In the end, I'm still scared of those bastards. On top of that, when I first saw this thread, I was trying to smoke out a spider (a big one, too) with Bengal spray.

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Originally Posted by Divinity This makes me think back to my apartment in Sevilla. All tile floors and I pick the dead of winter to move there. Well come March, it gets warmer and my family visits and literally the day after they leave it happens. I'm having breakfast and a roach the size of...hell it's just huge... crawls out from under the bottom cabinets and under the hideaway bed I had been sleeping in NOT 24 HOURS AGO. Oh God. I lost my appetite. Chucked my half eaten bowl of cereal and ran upstairs to fetch my landlord, Fernando. My spanish is 3rd level high school spanish so gestures help get my point across. His wife could hardly keep from laughing and Fernando was laughing while going downstairs to the now roach's apartment. I didn't even go in - I watched from outside. He lifted the hideaway bed and...no bug. He looks at me like I'm crazy. I remind him gesturing wildly that it's a hideaway bed and he proceeds to shake the damn thing until the roach comes flying out hitting the floor and running around. Fernando asks for paper and I went in for literally .01 seconds to hand him a newspaper and I'm out watching him run around trying to smack the damn thing dead. He kills it and scoops it up and walks past me....I backed up like 40 feet. He comes back from chucking the body outside and I thank him profusely while he walks back upstairs...shaking his head and chuckling. Glad HE found it funny.

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Originally Posted by rbella Oh Sweet Jesus, what a nightmare!!!!!! My sister just told me a story about a woman who lived in Florida. She had forgotten to roll up the windows in her car when she was at work. She got in the car later that night to go pick up a friend and go to dinner. Well, she was driving down the street and kept hearing these weird noises but couldn't figure out what it was. When she picked up her friend, her friend opened the door and the car light came on and her back seat was COVERED in big ass roaches! I actually dry-heaved last night when my sister told me that story.

*dies*
*dies*
*dies*

*super die*

this shit is horrific. ALL OF IT. I would cry. I'd run behind Jerry and cower in fear. I am SO afraid now. ;-;

 

[Hilly]

Yikes! I woulda crapped my pants!

 

[rbella]

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Originally Posted by florabundance That actually makes me want to cry! I hope that little whatever it was is out of your house by now too, but I have to say no bug is worse than a mouse in the house. Our neighbours garden is never cleaned, the lawn never mowed and the house is filthy also (we once - and ONLY once - volunteered to water their plants and stuff while on vacation), and however it happens, every year or so we (and our other neighbours) have a mouse invade our house. They generally come into the kitchen as our kitchen leads to the garden, but EUGH they fucking terrify me and just make me sick and jumpy and thinking that i'm seeing something when i'm probably not. How do you tell your neighbours to clean their dirty ass house and yard up without being rude. They actually also came round to us and a few others on our street to politely inform us that there may or may not have been a dead RAT in their house. I mean

Ok, that's just nasty. I've never encountered a rat before or a mouse. If I did, I promise it would be the end of me.

The creature is still here. I just know it. I can feel it looking at me, taunting me, waiting to eat me. I can't sleep. I'm friggin' miserable. I am literally scared of my own home. I'm beginning to get pissed at FiFi. She just lies around all day in her damned shoe box, not caring that her "person" is scared to death and she could help.

Mr. Rbella, well, he just doesn't get it. He swears it's gone and I should be fine. This morning he said "Aren't you getting some of that make up you like so much today? That should put you in a better mood." Ummmm, that would put me in a better mood if I was in a different home with no disgusting snakescorpionbeadyeyedpinkskinned monster in it.

 

[Divinity]

I totally feel for you and unless Mr. Rbella can show you the dead body, it's hard to take him for his word that it's gone.

 

[rbella]

I know, right? Before he left for work this morning, I gave him a kiss, told him I loved him and then informed him that I found him to be useless. He laughed all the way to the car. If he wasn't fronting my MAC addiction, there might be some severe punishments.

 

[florabundance]

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Originally Posted by rbella I can feel it looking at me, taunting me, waiting to eat me.

i'm guessing Mr Rbella won't be getting any, any time soon. have you thought about playing that card
"kill the bug or i won't have sex with you ever again?"

EDIT: oh, he bought you MAC? I just read that part. I take it all back. lol

 

[rbella]

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Originally Posted by florabundance i'm guessing Mr Rbella won't be getting any, any time soon. have you thought about playing that card "kill the bug or i won't have sex with you ever again?" EDIT: oh, he bought you MAC? I just read that part. I take it all back. lol

 

[duckduck]

Oh. My. God. I don't think I could sleep in that room until the thing was found and removed. In that situation, I would have utilized the stick and trashcan method of dealing with it. The stick is used to poke stuff until the creature comes out (and I subsequently drop the stick and scream a lot), and the trashcan is flipped upside down over the animal for someone else to deal with. If I knew that thing were still roaming free, I would be poking and moving stuff allll night in that room until it was found. Or making someone else do the same. Yik!

Okay, my scary bug story: the other day, I was coding in my office, and a freaking cockroach crawled up ON TO MY DESK! I quickly took action by alerting my office mates to the danger by screaming like crazy. I then grabbed the nearest containment device (an empty coffee mug) and flipping it upside down over the roach. Thing was, the mug wasn't big enough, so the roach's little antennae and legs were all sticking out and moving. MOVING!! Finally, I sucked up my pride and ran down the hall to the machine shop to find a nice big man to take care of the icky nasty roach. Yeah, they laughed at me, but I really, really didn't care. I then had to spend the next hour poking at stuff on and near my desk to make sure the roach didn't have any buddies. Ug - that was one terrible day at work.

 

[duckduck]

PS. Sorry for the traumatizing picture, but was this the culprit?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/...91e1f7.jpg?v=0

If so, it was a Mediterranean House Gecko common to your area. If it is him, I have at least some good news - he eats "young roaches, grasshoppers, katydids, ants, and other insects," but not people! Hooray! Still creepy tho

 

[rbella]

Oh My God!!!! That was it!! Yes!!! I am going to throw up at the site of it. I hope it eats every possible roach, but the thought that its slimy weird ass body could crawl across me totally gives me hives. Oh Jesus, I have the chills. I'm going to show it to my husband tonight. He'll probably want to adopt it as a pet.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! Now I know it won't eat me.

 

[rbella]

BTW, I swear to God if anyone makes this an avatar I will friggin' heave.