I freak out!! Scream!! Run!! And yell at Shane to get out here!! We flip on the lights in the entry way and this is what I see crawling across the floor, well crawling pretty fast:
Seriously, the body itself was easily 1.5 inches. So what does Shane do?? He brushes it out onto our porch and closes the door...like well that's the end of that. OH NO!!! I was NOT about to just let him brush it outside, so I ask him why he didn't kill it? His response? It's Sunday! Seriously!!!???!!! And he just goes about life like nothing has happened. Meanwhile I'm still totally freaked out that maybe it's going to crawl back in...what if it had babies, maybe our house is infested, etc. etc.
I think Shane finally realized I was NOT going to just let this drop so he went and got bug spray and went out and sprayed it (why couldn't he just smash it I still don't understand?) So it was doused with bug spray and brushed into the bushes. Oh great, so now it's in the bushes mating with his friend producing more.
Ok I know I'm being overly dramatic but when I finally sat down to eat my bowl of cereal, I started gagging thinking about it and couldn't finish. Ok I'm a freak, I admit it.
I thought it was a cockroach but consensus at work today says it's some type of beetle. I haven't seen anything this big since my mission in Australia where I had to kill cockroaches this big on a regular basis. Hint, put bowl over big cockroach, wait overnight, remove bowl and it's dead. They crawl up the bowl, fall over on their back and die. I LOVED learning that on my mission, that I didn't have to smash them.
PS I do have to give Shane credit for taking care of the problem, as I don't know what I would've done. I was paralyzed with fear. I love being married!!
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SICK - SICK - SICK!!!!! Remember the beetle in my bathroom when I was engaged? Ya...Tyler "set it free" outside. I'm with you - KILL THEM!
Oh gross!!! haha Shane's response is so funny. Being married definitely has perks!
Who took the picture? Oh, Mr. Calm that didn't want to kill on Sunday or leave a big slime blotch on the floor. Good thing I didn't tell her about the little spider that hitched a ride on my arm when I came back in the house from spraying the porch. When is Orkin coming?
Yikes! I totally understand. We get some pretty big creatures at our house and I sooo don't appreciate them one little bit.
I have to laugh, you are so funny! I would have got a jar and brought it around the house and showed everyone as well as the daycare kids the next day!
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