Except they’re weasels, not rodents. At least you didn’t need to give it a bath, right? Mine was PO’d that she got one today…she too looked offended 
Hey: Sit down on the couch and get a free massage, courtesy of thousands upon thousands of tiny little scurrying legs attached to big 'ol fat roach bodies.
Sing it with me:
‘It’s Joe’s Apartment!
But it’s our apartment, too!’
Ah, bad movies I have loved.
mdf, it’s unfortunate that such conditions are looked on that way by social services. “Lifestyle choice”, indeed! It’s even more unfortunate that those people had resigned themselves to living that way.
My company co-operated a few years ago with a study being done in the inner city regarding the correlation between the presence of roaches and cases of asthma in inner city children. Part of the work was actually teaching these people how to clean and maintain their environment. It’s appalling how people simply don’t know how to be clean. There’s a big difference between normal clutter and abject squalor.
When my best friend from high school (who is a cleaining machine) got married, they moved into a really nice little apartment complex. The only problem was that the dishwasher wasn’t working, and the maintainence guy couldn’t get it fixed. The new dishwasher is delivered, and when they pull out the old one, they find the problem. Roaches have been living in the dishwasher and ate the fucking wiring on the thing. Red and Dan had only been there a week, so this infestation had to have been left over from previous tenants. It took her almost six months to get rid of those nasty little fuckers.
Eeeeuuwwwww! is right. I cannot stand roaches.
As for how people can live like that… some people are just plain slobs (I can’t even say pigs; pigs are clean). It’s not a social issue, because no matter how poor you are, you can still be clean.
Absolutely disgusting. I agree, one roach is too many for me.
But, just to be a total asshole, in reguards to your Title, Stephen King DID think of something like this. Ever seen the movie Creep Show? It was a bunch of small little horror stories all written by Stephen King. The final one focussed on an old man who was a germ freak. Nice, clean, oversanitized apartment building. Then, he starts getting roaches. More and more keep appearing, and in one scene, her locks himself in the bedroom and notices some movement under his beadsheets. HE pulls them back to reveal thousands of roaches. He then has a heart attack and dies. The final shot is of his dead body lying on the ground before the roaches EAT THEIR WAY OUT FROM INSIDE HIS BODY!!!
Sorry, it’s just your story reminded me of that, and then I remembered it was written by Stephen King. The real life situation is just as disgusting though.
I have never seen a roach IRL yet. The idea that the board of health would just call it a lifestyle choice-when there are CHILDREN involved!
Besides, isn’t filth sometimes a sign of mental illness?
Oh god, I am so sorry I opened this thread. I thought I’d finally gotten over living in Georgia where we had a few roaches, but now the nightmares will return. Sure beats my dead-bird-sticking-out-of-the-gutter story.
Funny that you should say that. When an exboyfriend and I moved into an apartment, we avoided paying deposits (we just didn’t have the money) by cleaning the upstairs apartment. The dude who lived there had just been sentenced to prison for eighteen months, so he told the landlord to throw everything away. When we got up there, we discovered that:
a) the house had a roach infestation; and
b) the dude was eating them! There was a big pot filled with toasted bugs and butter. It was so nasty. I moved into my mother’s until the landlord finally got off his rear and called an exterminator. Not that it did much good… the exterminator completely disregarded the attic where we later discovered the roaches had been living off of a dead cat.
You Win- I’m not sure what for, or what the prize is, but dammit, you -do- win it.
<sounds of dry heaving>
-does anyone have a mint?
ick ick ick and ick
:shudder:
Gaaaah!!!
And here I sit reading this thread at 3 AM… alone in my kitchen…the comment about wolf spiders was enough to keep me up for the next 3 nights…
turns on all lights in house
shudder