and he won’t come out! I’ve tried throwing the shoe on the ground and poking pencils down the shoe. The little bastard is under the cushion which isn’t removeable of course. I’m just going to have to wait him out…
Why don’t you post something on a different topic?
Like, say…Possums in your garage?
Have you got it out yet? What was the winning technique?
Yeah, roaches just aren’t as cute as possums and possums rarely get in your shoes.
As for your problem, you could do what I’ve done accidentally when I didn’t know there was a roach in my shoe. Put on your shoe and walk around a bit. Then when you feel the problem has been taken care of, change your socks.
Or you could try bug spray. If you don’t want to smell like bug spray or absorb toxic chemicals through your feet then try hairspray. Your shoes will be sticky but possibly less roachey.
I’m going to leave now before that song starts up.
Alternatively, you could just do what I’d do and throw the shoe out. No way I’d ever wear that thing again anyway. shudder
I think I agree with the above… I couldn’t possibly ever don it again without thinking “ugh, it’s the ROACH shoe.”
Stick a couple bay leaves in the shoe. IIRC many bugs do not like it. May just be an old wives tale I dunno. Feel free to slap me down with a cite and purge my ignorance.
Put it in the freezer for a few hours.
looks at the google ad Hey, you could call Terminix!
Hey, I’m as squicked out by bugs as the next guy but throw out the shoes? It must be nice to be able to buy new shoes just because it had a bug in it. Do you people not wear socks or anything? Socks are there to protect you from these sort of things.
Dear Liza, dear Liza
There is a roach in my shoe
And I can’t get him out
Socks are there to protect you from blisters, not vermin. Unless you have very special HazMat socks, toss the shoes!!!
It will then pick that moment to crawl out and die in your ice tray, or Rocket pops.
Carry the shoe by the laces or tongue to the bathtub, and bang it against the side to shake the bastard out. Have fun flushing it down the drain.
OOooo…
the Yellow Rose Of
Cockroach!
With Possums
In your
Gar-aaaage!
I’ve never had occasion to remove a roach from my shoe this way, but I once used this method to dislodge a small, recalcitrant striped scorpion from an older pair of running shoes. I ended up throwing away the shoes anyhow a few months later, because I never could bring myself to wear them again. I’m a wimp, I know… :eek:
Yes, there are scorpions in Missouri! Our old house, in a rural area, had a bit of a problem with them, until we bought chickens and guinea fowl for our yard. I don’t think they ate the scorpions, but they ate the insects that the scorpions were feeding on.
http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/wildthing/stripedscorpion.htm
Smacking the shoe on the tub ought to work, good luck. 
I’m not sure if he came out or not because I fell asleep. I guess I’ll find out if he is in there the next time I wear it.
As long as this problem isn’t Kafka-esque, I think your ahead of the game.
Get the Raid then, Dear Henry,
Dear Henry, Dear Henry,
Get the Raid then, Dear Henry,
And give him a dose.
Do you have cats?
FREE BONUS TOY!!
Ours bring in “water bugs” (Texas-ese for freakin’ hyoooge flying roaches that are supposedly not nasty germ carriers like the kitchen ones) from the porch to torture, steal from each other, hoard, and kill, kill, kill. Then eat; then hack, cough, hork, barf.
“Water bugs” are the reason why I quit line-drying my laundry. There’s nothing quite like bringing in a load of towels, smelling all fresh and sunshiny, and finding an Industrial Size Roach on one of them. They do, however, make excellent cat toys, as emilyforce says.
We call ours Palmetto bugs, probably because some of them are as big as the Palmetto tree. Aren’t water bugs really those long-legged things that can walk on water? Sounds like a sissy type name to give a cockroach. I thought Texans were tougher than that?
The “water-bugs” of Texas
are not that nice, you see,
'cuz they’re really just big roaches
with a name of a sis-sy