Saturday, November 15, 2008

Problems with roommates: one died, the other exterminated

Two days ago, I saw in our bathroom the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life. It was the size of my palm. I sprayed this ugly unwelcome 8-legged giant roommate with so much Raid, it shriveled to 1/3 its size and lay belly up on the floor. But the whole dorm room smelled so bad afterwards, we had to air it out. It's been two days, and the bathroom still reeks with Raid. But at least, we can sleep better at night knowing that it's gone. Fearing that its siblings might be coming looking for it, we are now protecting ourselves at night with mosquito nets.

We finally figured out why our underwear has been smelling really bad the past week. We store our underwear in these wicker drawers that the previous teacher has left behind. Last night, we opened up one of the drawers and found a dead gecko inside. Apparently, our roommate the gecko had decided to make the underwear drawer its final resting place. The smell was so bad, it didn't even come off from the underwear after going through the washer twice. But this was still not as bad as the smell that our teammates had in their room last year after discovering in one of their drawers a dead rat with maggots all over it.

Then tonight, we saw a huge rat outside our door running away. We have enough issues right now; we're not looking for new roommates.

2 comments:

Nate said...

That is so gross!
Too bad you used up all the Raid... that could have been your next meal :)

Andy said...

Right behind our room is a sewer drain, so besides the really bad odor that comes from it, rats and spiders and other critters make their home there and sometimes crawl into our room to escape from the cold in the winter. It's good protein.