Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Great Bug Adventure

Here I was, getting ready to go out Christmas gift shopping with my friend. I did the normal things like showering but when I got out, I had a guest.

This massive bug with claws was walking across my mirror.

Since I am horribly afraid of bugs, I decided the best thing to do would be to spray it with bleach.

This failed to do anything except make the bug fly.
What kind of mutant bug doesn't die from bleach?!

At this point I decided I should take a picture of this bug to figure out what sort of thing could live through this kind of torture, but by the time I got back into the bathroom, it was gone.

This scared me worse. I promise you, there is nothing worse than knowing that a bug is loose somewhere in the house and you have no idea where it is.

I cautiously decided I should keep trying to get ready and once I had brushed one half of my hair, I looked and saw it was on the shower curtain. This is when I remembered the chemist I knew from a few years back. She told me that Windex kills bugs by suffocating them.

[Side note: I don't care how cruel a death of suffocation is. The bug should have known better than to move into my apartment in the first place.]

I ran into the kitchen and grabbed the Windex and went crazy spraying the shower curtain and the bug.

This didn't kill it either.

Instead, the bug just continued crawling around the shower curtain. Its claws were helping it keep a grip on the shower curtain so even the boot I was trying to hit it with wouldn't make it budge.

So I decided to just spray it with as many chemicals as I could. Maybe it would explode.

Everything I could find in the kitchen is now on that bug, wherever it is. It disappeared shortly after that.

I am going to keep waiting for the chemical reaction to end the bugs life and also warn all other bugs from ever entering this apartment.

**UPDATE**
I found the bug a couple hours later and used 2 boots to try to somehow hit the bug into the toilet.
It worked.
Unfortunately, it was a stink bug according to Best Friend...so I was lucky I didn't squish it! 



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