On Sunday Anna and I were baking. I had made some icing and was standing on the opposite side of the kitchen doing something when Anna opened the cupboard, started screaming and literally ran out of the room. I saw something had fallen out and my first thought was that it was the mouse that has been licking our mouse traps clean. But turns out it was a roach. This roach then landed in the bowl of icing and ran a lap or two before it succumbed to my wadded up paper towel of death.
Yeah, we threw that icing out. It was much sweeter than what we usually like so we took it as a sign that it wasn’t meant to be.
I’m sure there are roaches in San Diego too, but the fact that googling “san diego roaches” yields about 1.4 million results on Google but “new york roaches” yields 3.9 million results is reassuring. Also, a lot more images of actual roaches in the Google Image search for “new york roaches.”
s.d. population =~ 3 mil.
nyc population =~ 8 mil.
perhaps the difference in population attests to the google results?
i’m only kidding though — we had a huge roach problem. i was having nightmares. finally the exterminator set up some kind of paste behind the counters and all the roaches started dropping dead and never came back in full capacity… although one or two still wander in occasionally from the outside…
Haha this is true. The population difference is too huge of a stat to ignore. We’ve had an exterminator over occasionally and that does usually mean finding dead roaches on the floor. I think they usually hope that they die in the walls, but sometimes they go out in the blaze of glory.