In the last two weeks, cockroaches seem to have taken up residence in our bathroom. On alternate evenings, I spy a reddish-brown monster the size of my thumb hanging out near the sink or in the shower.
Gokiburi are not my my list of Things I Can Kill, so we chase them around the room, trap them in a glass and fling them over the veranda into the garden below.
I’m sure the neighbors love us.
Posted by kuri at July 13, 2004 08:16 AMIt’s probably the same one every time; I can picture it climbing laboriously up from the garden over and over. Maybe you could try letting it go in the countryside miles away. Or put it in a padded envelope and mail it to another city.
Posted by: Holly Ward on July 14, 2004 01:33 AMWhat IS on you list of Things I Can Kill???
Personally, i get a guilt attack for anything other than the meat i eat (very mild guilt) and mosquitoes (no guilt whatsoever, plenty more where they came from!)
I am as curious as j-star. What IS on your List I Can Kill? I’ve rarely felt much sympathy for any insect that will bite me and they fall into that category, but I’ll go out of my way to avoid others that aren’t bothering me such as ants, etc. I’ll even catch and take the flies out of the house.
Posted by: Seth on July 15, 2004 05:14 AMThings I Can Kill
1. mosquitoes
2. …um…
It’s a short list, but strangely enough, I think I’d be a fine assassin or euthanasist. Have never put that theory to the test, though.
Posted by: on July 15, 2004 07:17 AMOh…well, actually, now you mention it, i can kill ants and flies when there are a lot of them around me, but here in Japan there arent a lot of them so i havent killed any for a while. Interesting how the size of the population affects my ability to kill members of the population…
Posted by: j-ster on July 16, 2004 11:18 AM