This morning my daughter thought she saw a cockroach in the kitchen. She cleaned and sanitized

[Floyd R. Turbo]

everything. Tomorrow I’m putting the cockroach in the bathroom!

[elleng]

1. LOLOLOL!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. 😁

[Harold Shea]

3. HA!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. 😁

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Well played my friend. Per chance, how much does a trained cockroach go for?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. I raised it from a pup. The bitch was adopting out its 5,000 siblings! 😬

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. So, do you operate a Cockroach Academy?

Could be big money in trained cockroaches. Just spit-ballin'.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. It's not about the money!

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. SORRY, OK????!!!!

Had my capitalistic stoner head on when I posted.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. 😁

[Phoenix61]

7. I'm in Florida and we have the horrific Palmetto Bug.

It’s like a roach on steroids. The only thing that makes me scream like a little girl. The sorry &$#% fly!!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. How about fire ants? Visited folks I worked with in Sarasota ....they had nests in their yard. yikes,

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. When I first lived in Phoenix, AZ, many years ago,

our first apartment (it was a townhouse) had fire ants in the back yard. Needless to say, my very young son (he was 9months old when we first lived there) was never able to go into the back yard.

[Phoenix61]

37. Yep! Got them too. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 😬

[stage left]

22. We had palmetto bugs too,

In Charleston South Carolina where I lived for awhile. I was horrified when I discoverd the &$#% could fly. OMG!

[niyad]

14. You are a brat. I was reminded of the cockroach scene in "Victor, Victoria".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. 😬

[chouchou]

15. Ah..would you mind putting one in my filthy-ass car?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. 🤗

[MFM008]

16. Brilliant

If I would have done that when my kid was a teenager he would have scrubbed his way to China....missed opportunity.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. 😂

[3catwoman3]

17. When I was stationed in San Antonio...

...in 1976-77, I had cockroaches and palmetto bugs.

One time, I was about to wipe away what I thought was a hair in my bathroom sink, right by the overflow drain.

Imagine my horror when I realized there were 2 "hairs" and they were moving - there was a palmetto bug in the overflow drain, and the "hairs" were its antennae poking out.

Gross, gross, gross.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

27. 😱

[moniss]

18. Nothing gets a person off the couch

faster than finding out you're living with "wildlife".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

28. 🤗

[moniss]

19. I see folks mentioning living in Florida

and the bugs. My first time there I stayed in a motel and about 9:00 p.m. I spotted a lizard running along the wall. I freaked out and called the front desk. The guy told me "Don't kill it!! We have those around to keep the bugs down!!" Same thing when I vacationed in Puerto Rico. Sitting on my covered balcony drinking rum and coke with my obligatory Hawaiian shirt on laying on the chaise lounge. I looked away for a minute and when I looked back there was a lizard bigger than a rat sitting a couple of feet away and sunning himself. I thought "OK, we can share!!"

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. 🤗

[sop]

32. We don't have cockroaches in Florida, we call them Palmetto Bugs. They can fly and they will attack you.

Truly Nolen, a South Florida pest control company, used to have a fleet of trucks made to look like giant bugs and vermin; sort of like the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, but much less appetizing. One truck was an immense cockroach (palmetto bug) with long flexible legs that would move up and down as it drove down the highway. As a kid those Truly Nolen trucks gave me nightmares.

[tavernier]

20. Regardless of cleanliness or pest control,

You will have an occasional cockroach in your bathtub or skittering around the floor in a damp area. They either come up with the plumbing or come in from a paper kitchen bag. Although I’ve always found that when I see them very occasionally, they are in the tub. Meaning they have come up from pipes.

On edit, I live on an island in the tropics.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

30. 😬

[LudwigPastorius]

21. I lived in a couple of sketchy places off campus when I was in school.

One was called "Slum Manor", and I'm surprised Marlin Perkins didn't send in Jim and a camera crew to record the wildlife we had there.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. 😁

[moniss]

38. I used to crack

up about how Marlin would speak so calmly as Jim is going into danger. I think there is even an old comedy bit centered around that premise of Jim getting ripped up while Marlin just rolls along.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

33. You will feel sorry for the cockroach when you see one die when it's sprayed with this:

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. 😬

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. I'm not kidding. Once that's on them, they have fifteen seconds to live.

Their death is clearly not a pain-free experience. It is disturbing to see.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Thread killer! 🥹

[moniss]

39. Oven cleaner

and spray furniture polish.