My IRRATIONAL FEAR
Hi, my name is Dana and I have an irrational fear of cockroaches.
Seriously... Everyone hates them, I mean - nobody likes to see a big fat nasty roach crawling around their kitchen... but most people just shreik and kill and dispose of. I freak out.
When I see a roach, my skin burns. I panic. I tense up. I run. My whole body itches. I then become completey afraid of the room or area where I saw the roach for about 12-24 hours.
Tonight I saw the roach IN the dishwasher. Good thing too because there was nobody here to kill it had it been running about in the kitchen. I slammed the dishwasher door and turned it on. It must be dead by now. It has to be. It burned and drowned and tried to get out as the heat billowed in and the water came rushing towards it... GOOD. I hope it felt the fear I felt.
Now I am upstairs because after seeing that horrid creature I can not even sit in the livingroom without thinking that maybe it survived... or maybe there's more... so I am upstairs and hungry, but I'm afraid to venture back to the kitchen for fear there might be another one chillin' out waiting to get me... and then the fear would start all over again.
My skin is still crawling. I have flashbacks about the roach for hours after I see one.
Is this what would be considered an "irrational" fear? I mean... they're gross and everyone hates them... but to obsess so much. Chances are there are more around - it's Florida and "that time of year"... but is it normal to become so scared of a bug the size of my thumb that I won't even spend time on an entire floor of my house?
Yeah - it's that time of year. That's what they told me at the leasing office when I asked them to come spray my house for bugs. They were here yesterday... I saw this thing tonight. Lot of good that did. AND the cleaning people were just here today - so its not like I live in some bug infested pigsty.
OK, that's enough. Hopefully it wasn't too freaky for anyone... but I bet your skin is crawling right now isn't it?
So the Houston/St. Louis game is on. I want Houston. Roger Clemens. Make him come play the Sox... and he's not a Yankee this time so he can't walk on the field with the same cockiness he did as a Yankee. It will be the ultimate F U to Clemens for the Sox to win the World Series AGAINST him. Doesn't look like its gonna happen though - Cardinals are up 5-2 right now.
OK I gotta go. Hope no cockroaches make their way to my bed tonight... that's how I think after I see a roach. It sucks.
Dana
Dirt Dished by D*ana @ 9:49 PM
6 Comments:
You crack me up!
We have Terminex come spray every 3 months for preventive measures, everytime after there here a few little creatures make there way out. I called them about this and I guess it's supposed to happen- it's actually good for some reason. They said they help to bring the poison/bait back to the "others" if there are any. Hopefully after the first few days you won't see anymore of those nasty little buggers. :)
I'm so with you on the fear of roaches. One night (when I was pregnant with my son) my DH was in Orlando and of course while I'm there alone defenseless a HUGE roach appears. I called my husband and demanded he come back home (I live in Lakeland) to kill the roach. He called his brother to come over to kill the roach for me. Ok, fine I can deal but since I was in my bedroom because the roach was outside my bedroom door BIL would have to come through the window. Anywho, I swear this roach could smell fear and crawled right under the door. I don't know what happened, maybe it was the hormones, I snapped threw a book at the roach, jumped over it to the laundry room found Raid and sprayed the roach even though I'm sure the book had killed it. Totally understand the fear of roaches.
And remember the Orkin commercial where the roach was crawling on the tv screen? I thought it was real when I first saw it. I about pissed my pants.
Yes, I can't stand roaches either, but it is spiders that make me freak - big ones, even little jumping ones. To me it seems like anything with 8 legs can run faster than I can run away from it! I don't get itchy though, I get panicked, shake, and start crying - I AM DEATHLY AFRAID OF SPIDERS! I had one the size of my hand (a wood spider) jump on me and that must have been what started my fear. I can't kill them because i'm so afraid of them and my husband is NOT my hero! We had a wood spider in the house last week - I walked in our room and saw him on the floor staring at me (you know the spider stare, where they are just walking around the floor and you come upon it and it freezes and stares at you). I backed out of the room and asked my husband to kill it - he laughed at me and threw me a shoe. I begged him and he wouldn't do it. So I found a can of Raid and went after it, but let me tell you I was in hysterics the whole time. And to top it off - I didn't get it! So now I had to go to bed wondering if he was going to crawl on me in the middle of the night.
Just so you know, the reason the roach probably appeared upstairs after they sprayed is because they all tried to escape the area where the spraying was and that sorta drew them out. At least now most of them are dead. Ew. I saw one one night in my apartment and shrieked so loudly, I thought someone was going to call the cops. I ended up spraying an entire can of bug spray at it, throwing paper towels on it, and using my swiffer to shove it out the door and into the hallway. So gross!
As for your fear, it may be a touch irrational, but not harmful. You do what makes you comfortable. That's what matters.
OMG YOU WORKED AT FRIENDLY'S!!! That is my FAVORITE!!! Friendly's had the BEST chicken fingers and they had this AWESOME "Kid's Kiss Sundae" made with marshmallow, fudge, and hershey kisses when I was little. We used to go there ALL the time. In fact, I believe I was dragged out of there by my ear one time when I was being a brat but that's another story LOL... I love Friendly's!!! It used to be SUCH A TREAT to go there... I thought it was some super fantastic place when really it's like a Denny's with Ice Cream lol... Anyway, Brigham's rules too. And Papa Gino's. They don't have any of those places down here... Instead we get Sonic and Checkers - ew.
TK threw a roach at me once. It was when we first met and he didn't realize the trauma I experienced... This little f*cker is still sitting dead in the bottom of the dishwasher, like where all the food drains... I am waiting for TK to get home because even though it's dead, I'm not going near it.
Now I want ICE CREAM!
Dana
OMG, I was just thinking the other day that I could REALLY go for a Papa Ginos Pizza. Sucks there arent any places around here like it. Actually Roma's Pizza in Ybor is similar and really good, but not quite the same. Too funny thats what you miss too...Friendlys was the best as a kid for us in Maine too.
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