A few days ago I was practicing the piano and Hugh was playing on the floor next to me. As you can imagine, Hugh comes up with some pretty creative ways to get my attention away from the piano and back to him. When Hugh began to repeat some gibberish phrase over and over again, I finally looked over and saw THIS crawling about two inches away from him:
I've never moved so fast. I swooped him up and immediately began talking out loud to myself--isn't that what most people do when their frantic, or is that just the Petersons? The sweat began beading down my face about 8 seconds later. I was so scared. Leaving the ROACH there wasn't an option, neither was touching it. My out loud conversation came up with the idea to trap it with a cup and flush it down the toilet. I ran and got the cup and SCREAMED when I had to get close enough to put the cup on top. Then the disgusting creature's antenna got stuck on the outside of the cup when I was sliding my trusty Bed Bath & Beyond coupon under it, so it's even more disgusting legs were scrambling like crazy. I chucked it in the toilet and flushed as quick as I could and then screamed!!! It was the longest 3.5 minutes I've had in a LONG time!
(Just typing this has me in a dead sweat with the eebie jeebie shivers!)
Now when you show Hugh a picture of a cockroach in his book, he screams and tenses up his arms.....I'm sure I looked real brave to him! ;)
(Just typing this has me in a dead sweat with the eebie jeebie shivers!)
Now when you show Hugh a picture of a cockroach in his book, he screams and tenses up his arms.....I'm sure I looked real brave to him! ;)
19 comments:
Was it the Mom-mutter-under-your-breath? Or was this full-volume conversations with yourself? Did you make a list of how you would deal with the bug?
Two weeks?
I'm glad you took the time out of your 3.5 minutes to snap a picture! I can just picture this scene. You had me laughing!
i would have ABSOLUTELY freaked out!!!! i don't think i would have been able to do with you did!
Ewwwwwwwwwww!!! That is so gross. I'm glad you were able to catch it and get rid of the ugly thing. I put cups over spiders to trap them and then wait for Cory to come home take care of the problem. I don't care for bugs much.
I'm totally laughing out loud only because I would have reacted in just the same way. Toes permanently curled for hours afterwards.
I'm proud of you for being so brave!
Laughing so hard. . . and totally shivering with fear. Seriously scary. I totally talk to myself all the time, and I am all alone. :)
oh gross. i can't even look at the picture without squirming myself. aren't bugs the worst? i usually put a cup over it and tell baylee over and over again that she can't touch it - then josh comes home and takes care of the creatures! :) then we scan the whole room and make sure there's no more, then i make josh help me move furniture to vacuum. haha. i'm probably worse than you, but glad to know there are more people out there totally creeped out by these things... :)
Wow! It's a big one! I love the story of how you saved Hugh; you are so brave.
DIS. GUST. ING. AM you are too funny in your writing! I can just picture a play-by-play of you!
lol I had to laugh. I've heard that roaches are bigger and faster down where you live, but we had our fare share in Vegas and man.....they are creepy. it really gives me the heeby geebies just thinking about it.
Disgusting. Just disgusting. Last time I saw one you would have thought someone broke into my house I was screaming so hard.
You're such a great story teller. It's times like that when I'm glad I have a dog that comes running whenever I say "Athena! It's a bug!" so I don't usually have to figure out how to deal with them myself. So brave!
That's hilarious and gross at the same time! We're having issues with ants in our apartment. I keep finding them in my shower and my kitchen sink and even in Penny's bed. I'm trying to stay calm so Penny doesn't get this crazy fear of ants, but it's hard when I find them crawling all over.
That sounds very similar to one of my roach stories. Daniel was just a baby on a blanket and Bradley was a toddler. Bradley couldnt understand why his mom was acting like a wild woman. I have found that 409 kills just about EVERYTHING!
EW EW EW!!! YUCK!!!
umm...so I'm waiting for you to update your blog. Wow you are so behind. (this is flack from the bar-b-q)
So, I totally am with you. There is nothing worse in the world than a roach, nothing.
I am laughing out loud...only because I would have done the SAME thing! (Except maybe take the picture...haha) You are awesome!
Totally Gross!
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