RedSea4u

I have just been into the kitchen and decided to put the air conditioning on, when I clicked the remote a cockroach blew out of the vents landed in my hair then dropped down to the front of me and then fell to the floor. I screamed and started dancing to make sure it was off me and then made a bolt out of the kitchen. Although it is not my worst experience it certainly was not a nice one.

Just want to point out that the house isn't dirty LOL, it's just that the air con in the kitchen is hardly ever used!

What experiences have you had that have made you jump and scream?

Well,

Mine would be another cockroach experience, I hate them!

I was walking into my apartment block and there was a massive one at the bottom of the stairs, i geared my self up to jump over it and with that another three came running at me! I screamed and ran out of the block, waiting for my partner to come back from the shop to kill em allowing me to get into my apartment.

I'm confused now about what i dislike most, Roaches, Mozzie's or flies?

Ground floor apartment, flowers up the side of the villa. Ants everywhere.
Made two cherry pies, 3 steak & mushroom, 3 chicken & sweetcorn. Left them on top of the cooker lid to cool while we went out.

Came back, the walls and pies were black with the blighters. Hubby now going round every wall filling in the missing grouting, missing plaster.

Funny, you saying about ants Semsema, I have never seen so many ants as I have this year! Normally when they first come in the spring I spray the green Flit spray and it gets rid of them for the rest of the year. But this time I have bought all different kinds of sprays but still cannot get rid of them, I have them everywhere, at a loss what to do this time.

Here we go again! What would we do without Metro? We found in the spray section, a packet of 3 round discs. You put them down where the ants are, they carry it back to the nest and you never see them again. It is totally odourless.

I now spray my tops, walls, floors with a mixture of water and vinegar. That seems to work for a while, but of course the vinegar evaporates really quickly.

My daughter is bring some gel which she says is good, just hope it works on the Egyptian ants.

The guy upstairs says he now has them! Sorry but that means that Mr. C did a great job of filling in all the cracks. Only used 2 large tubs of filler.

yeah but what do you do with cockroachs. i hate them and i have some small ones in the kitchen. keep spraying baygon all the time but it never goes. i have to say that really house and specially kitchen is very clean as i love cooking and i spend a lot of time in it. but do not know what to do with cockroachs anymore. in cairo i bring a company to spray my house once a year and i never see any ants or cockroachs, but here in Hurghada it is like a nightmare.


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Mine is cockroaches too, I moved into a flat here in Sharm and as soon as it got dark out they came and I'm talking about hundreds of them it took me weeks and tons of raid to get rid of them, I couldn't sit and relax at all I was constantly scanning the rooms. I blocked up every little nook and cranny I thought they might be hiding. I was constantly spraying disinfectant on the surfaces just in case one had walked over it and I'd missed it!!! Apparently the flat didn't have anyone living there for some time and so the little blighters took up residence! I left the flat after only a couple of months I couldn't stand the worry. The memory of that experience will stay with me forever.

Uuuurgghh! What a horrid topic!

I have millions of horrid cockroach stories - but my worst one (actually happened twice now!) was being in the elevator with a cockroach on my shoulder.

I now call the elevator up to my floor every week or so and coat the thing in raid! Feel sorry for the next person to get in the elevator really - but who cares!

I was on a beach on the Romanian / Bulgarian border a few years ago when a lovely young lady asked if I would like to buy some cherries.
I bought a couple of bags, one for me and one for Jayne and proceeded to eat mine whilst waiting for Jayne to come back from swimming in the Black sea (which is blue by the way, and the Blue Danube in brown and tastes like **** but thats another story)
Anyway, I was half way through my bag when Jayne returned and when she looked at her cherries, she said "every one has a maggott in it.
Not nice. but they tasted ok.

In case you are wondering, I survived

Mine was whilst living in Africa and constantly on the lookout for snakes. I was leaving for work one morning and pulled on my bush boots.........aaagh something cold and soft inside the toe end. Boot flies off through the air, arcing better than any penalty shot ever taken, it hit the ground and the biggest bloody toad you have ever seen hopped out !!!!!

Having a bl**dy heart attack.......don't get much worse than that.....it does persuade you to stop smoking though......and, like Andy, I survived.


PS. But that was 22 years ago come November 13, and no, it wasn't a Friday.

That puts eating a few maggots into perspective Grandad

I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say "I'm glad you are still with us"

Cheers mate! Just have to keep popping a handful of pills each day....no probs.

Andy wrote:That puts eating a few maggots into perspective Grandad

I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say "I'm glad you are still with us"

No kidding! Makes us all look a bunch of right whiners going on about roaches!

Keep up the good health Grandad.

Sorry guys, I seem to have put a dampener on this thread..........but you DID ask for worst experience.

Let's bring it back to the top.......

As a 14 year old Sea Cadet myself and three others got lost on top of the Severn Sisters in Sussex at night on a map reading excersise.......pretty scary at the time. But it all got sorted before dawn.

Eeyuch, oh no, not cockroaches again, I knew I shouldn't have read this

Tossing up between getting out after a leisurely bath and I moved the shower curtain & an enormous spider landed on my head & fell on the floor. The second was walking in the hills behind the Valley of the Nobles and entering a cave in the dark, when I suddenly heard a loud slithering and hissing sound. I was told afterwards it was probably the Guardian of the Qurn :oo

I agree that we are very glad you made such a good recovery Grandad

Thanks for your comments guys but I'm not the first to have a ticker problem and it was 22 years ago......and you just have to be positive.

But spiders and cockroackes?????? Surely someone has had worse than that......I like spiders and cockroaches.

How about the bloke reported today, who cut off an arm with a power tool, or something........nobody ever done that????? :gw: