I am currently visiting my parents who live abroad in a warm climate. They have always been messy, but relatively clean, but currently their house is a bit of a tip if I'm honest. Every available surface is crammed with clutter, trinkets, general stuff and their kitchen is grubby. I discreetly set about cleaning it after I was making a cup of tea and had two cockroaches fight me at the sugar bowl. As I cleaned further I must have disturbed their general equilibrium and now they are all over the place. In the toaster (!!) on walls - basically they are popping up everywhere. They make my skin crawl, and they are massive.
Here's the thing. I don't want to hurt my parents' feelings as there are many contributing factors to the state of things for them (need a whole other thread for that) but I am inclined to think cockroaches are partly caused by poor hygiene and not just warm weather. It's also a case of one step at a time with them, and cockroaches seem as good a place as any to start.
And I being anal or over-reacting? It just makes my stomach turn to see them and I don't feel that comfortable eating food prepared in this kitchen because short of emptying every single cupboard - of which there are many - I have no idea what other horrors lurk.
WIBU to insist my parents get in exterminators or should I just turn a blind eye and clean furiously when nobody's looking?