MystyGlyttyr
07-08-2008, 03:59 PM
So today at work I had just finished setting the coffee and was walking back to my desk when I saw what looked like a mouse scurrying across the floor. WTF? So I go running after it to try and catch it...
...and it's a ROACH. EW EW EW EW EW. A ginormous nasty roach.
A few good whacks with a shoe later, and I've got a big mess to clean up. Yuck.
An hour or so later, I see another, more normal-sized roach, and killed that one too as it was terrorizing the female reporters (yay me).
And just now (I've been at work for 2 and a half hours) I was working and noticed another large brown movement out of the corner of my eye, at the same time the other clerk was going "EW EW EW EW EW" and retreating. And I looked up at the wall next to my desk and it's ANOTHER mouse-sized freaking roach. So I hopped up and went to whacking with my shoe again.
THIS roach exploded. Guts and crap were sprayed for a good two feet. It looked like a damn crime scene. I had to go wash my shoe, face, arms, etc., basically wound up taking a whore bath in the bathroom.
Then I get back to clean up the wall, and the damn roach is STILL ALIVE. So I had to smash him a few more times to make him stay down. (Then I flushed him just to be sure...)
Add to all this a soundtrack of girlish shrieking and running away by the 90% female newsroom while I'm doing all the murder. :lol:
I'm definitely rethinking my original plan to take an early lunch...
...and it's a ROACH. EW EW EW EW EW. A ginormous nasty roach.
A few good whacks with a shoe later, and I've got a big mess to clean up. Yuck.
An hour or so later, I see another, more normal-sized roach, and killed that one too as it was terrorizing the female reporters (yay me).
And just now (I've been at work for 2 and a half hours) I was working and noticed another large brown movement out of the corner of my eye, at the same time the other clerk was going "EW EW EW EW EW" and retreating. And I looked up at the wall next to my desk and it's ANOTHER mouse-sized freaking roach. So I hopped up and went to whacking with my shoe again.
THIS roach exploded. Guts and crap were sprayed for a good two feet. It looked like a damn crime scene. I had to go wash my shoe, face, arms, etc., basically wound up taking a whore bath in the bathroom.
Then I get back to clean up the wall, and the damn roach is STILL ALIVE. So I had to smash him a few more times to make him stay down. (Then I flushed him just to be sure...)
Add to all this a soundtrack of girlish shrieking and running away by the 90% female newsroom while I'm doing all the murder. :lol:
I'm definitely rethinking my original plan to take an early lunch...