livin in the Heights*

*originally from LJ

About an hour ago I was about to get in to the shower when I noticed a
HUGE cockroach on the bathroom wall. We're not talking about a large
American cockroach, but one of those HUGE >1inch exotic roaches. There
it was, sitting on the wall, calm and haughty. I took a swing at it
with my slipper but the bastard eluded me. I then screamed for my
roommate Katie to come and get it.

We armed her with a Swifer and sent her into the trenches. After some prodding, she dislodged the fiend from the corner and had it running for its life. Of course she was too scared to actually crunch it so she kind of kept sweeping it back into the bathroom. In an attempt to save its life the Spawn of Evil latched on to the Swifer. But this time Katie was too quick for it! She put the Swifer over the toilet and shook the monster off, I quickly jumped in and flushed. The beast
struggled but couldn't fight the current.

Many questions remain:
how did that monstrosity make it into our apartment??
Are there more??
How could I possibly live in NY and not own a bottle of RAID?

Now i'm itchy all over. I'm seeing phantom bugs everywhere. If I had found it in my room, I'd be packing right now.

I hope everyone is having sweet dreams and I twist and turn all night with horrible visions of hideous monsters.