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Cockroach gate

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Potterurotter · 19/04/2018 21:20

I’m currently in Thailand, it’s just gone 3 in the morning and I’m wide awake because I was woken up by a cockroach crawling across me. I swatted it off the second time I felt movement and woke the other half up as it was then in the bed at the bottom. It then ran up and around the side of the mosquito net.

Earlier on in the evening said roach was seen in the bathroom by my boyfriend, he sprayed it with water to make it exit out of a drainpipe but didn’t actually watch to make sure. Angry

I’m fairly confident the same roach has then later run under the door and into the bed which is a mattress on the floor in what I would describe as a sweat shack wooden hut.

I’m now lights on and can’t sleep, feel traumatised but also massively pissed off at other half who refused to help me search for the roach to make sure it was gone because he is quote ‘terrified’ and is now asleep whilst I’m wide awake with the lights on can’t sleep.

AIBU to suggest boyfriend could be the one making sure roach is gone and being awake while I sleep??

I feel this roach is the proverbial straw for the camels back! AIBU?

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missbattenburg · 19/04/2018 21:42

Not unreasonable at all.

I lived in India for 18 months. The cockroaches were truly the very worst aspect of my time there. Hairy legged little bastards have an unnatural ability to survive almost anything and turn up when you least want them to.

Fucking hate them.

Lights on all night,

If you are in a hotel or serviced apartment then demand they fumigate tomorrow. if you cannot do that, get some big pots of RAID Roach Killer and use one to completely and utterly fumigate the place yourself (be careful about breathing it in). If you have a/c then spray shit loads in the vents.

Keep the rest in reserve to unleash Armageddon on any of the little shiteaters that dare to scurry in again.

p.s. find something ticklish and drag it lightly across bf's face then scream . When he wakes tell him the roach crawled across his cheeks...

ClashCityRocker · 19/04/2018 21:44

Um, how sure are you it's the same roach? I don't mean to alarm you but....

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 19/04/2018 21:45

God I wish I had you there when I was on Holiday Missbatt !

Avonandice · 19/04/2018 21:49

If you were in this country Id offer you our bearded dragon who seems to think that roaches are the only thing worth eating and has to eat my body weight in them at feed time.

Allmyshilldren · 19/04/2018 21:53

Not sure what you expected from a wooden shack with a mattress on the floor in Thailand but I would think a cockroach would be the least of your worries.

MrsCatE · 19/04/2018 21:54

FFS, you want the experience of "sweat shack wooden hut". It's not just one beast OP, but many...

Troels · 19/04/2018 22:00

Blergh I hate those things, we rented a house that had them. I had roach motels positioned all over behind couches etc. I wouldn't collect them up I made Dh do it. roaches check in, but they don't check out
www.blackflag.com/products/indoor-products/roach-motel.aspx
See if you can buy them locally.

Delatron · 19/04/2018 22:05

I think that's what you get with a mattress onvthe floor in a wooden hut type scenario in Thailand (sorry). Can you move to different accommodation tomorrow? I doubt there's only one!

RavenLG · 19/04/2018 22:16

Blergh.. I used to work in a leisure centre that was crawling with the little buggars.

I've been traumatised today by the massive fucking wasp (and I mean absolutely massive I've not seen anything like it) getting in the bedroom today. Caught between the nets and the window. It was horrifying. I managed to coax it out after about 15 minutes. Shaking like a shitting dog afterwards.

p.s. find something ticklish and drag it lightly across bf's face then scream . When he wakes tell him the roach crawled across his cheeks
Please do this Grin

Lovestonap · 19/04/2018 22:28

another one thinking that roaches don't tend to be solitary beasts.......

Slightlyconfuddled · 19/04/2018 22:41

I had similar last year in Morocco. Felt it during the night and couldn't find the little buggar for love nor money. Shook all the the bedclothes off outside and finally settled back to sleep. Little sod must have clung on for dear life cos as soon as I got into bed it ran over my arm, under the covers. Squished it that time and didn't have any more.

We did have the most humongous one I've ever seen on our most recent holiday there, about as big as a cigarette packet. My 12 yo discovered that one in the bathroom and DH had to grab it. Took him 3 or 4 attempts as they're wiggly little buggars. Went down the loo promptish! Didn't see any others in the fortnight. It doesn't always follow that there are multiple.

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