Last night, guess what else was in my sink besides the dishes.
Two days + no dishes=1 roach.
But, as a corollary, as everyone knows,
1 roach=5 roaches.
BOO.
Some things I don't like about New York. Can anyone recommend a place for me where laziness is rewarded? Alternatively, a live-in dishwashing monkey who's looking for a place to stay (and maybe some bugs to snack on)?
*paraphrased from Dadrat's take on capital punishment
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Aren't you an insectivore?
Anyway, may I suggest the Bronx Zoo? The cage right next to the Proboscis monkey has long been reserved for Echinosorex gymnura.
Hmm... Crickets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yum! They all come in disposable containers, so no dishes...
I'm afraid I can't help you. The only dishwashing monkeys I know shun live-in gigs.
Sorry to hear about your unwelcome visitor, though.
Get the gel and the little black houses from Combat and those little buggers will go away a long time even if you don't do your dishes for more than two days. Really.
It's been said that laziness is rewarded (or at least, accepted) here in the South. But the roaches are a helluva lot bigger, too.
gah, i hate roaches. they fly in taiwan.
perhaps if you lived on a cruise ship? no need to do dishes then?
we used to hear really really loud scurrying sounds under the kitchen sink in our nyc apt. i'd bang on the cabinet door with a pot to get it to be quiet.
i always told the hub if it sounded any louder than that, it'd have to pay rent!
The little black houses from combat work.
Roaches. The Missus hates them, she does -- and we're in N. Florida, and she's a N. Florida native. (If anyone should have grown acclimated to them by now, it'd be her.)
I second the recommendations from R.A. and Charles on the little black houses. When I lived in VA, they worked great.
Here, the only thing that works anything like completely is putting a pest-control mercenary on retainer. Think John Goodman in "Arachnophobia."
Unfortunately, laziness doesn't seem to be rewarded anywhere.
Where I live, for instance, two days + no dishes = 1 mouse.
:(
Of course, it doesn't help that my cat is also lazy.
Sigh. We just can't win, can we...?
(Also, I'm new to your blog. Hi!)
I realize this is about you and your dishes, but I posted a pic of myself and wanted to tell you before I puke and take it down....
(Hot water kills those buggers.)
Come to Portland, OR. No roaches I know of except for the non-insect kind.
Expensive - yes.
Total hippie under-current - yes again.
Dirty dishes or not - it's all good.
When my husband's family lived in Turkey for a while, they hung wall hangings (think thin Turkish rugs, very docorative) and let a salamander live on the wall behind. The salamander took care of the roaches.
Food for thought.
(sorry)
No roach problems here in Seattle. Ah, Paradise!
haha,, thanks Moonrat, I just sprayed Dr. Pepper across my desk!
Now I'm going to have to clean it up before I too am punished!
My live-in minky (husband) only has to do the dishes once per week, and he leaves them in the sink EVERY TIME! If he misses a shift, he has to do the next day's dishes even if they're assigned to someone else.
I hate it because then the mice have an excuse to party.
We don't have roaches because we live out of the city, but ants like to visit once in a while.
I'd like to add that I heard roaches actually prefer a clean environment. Doesn't that suck?
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