the only cockroach i saw in my old apartment was nice enough to waddle to the middle of my foyer and die there overnight--thanks buddy, there was no suspense with you.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
the mere thought of ironing cockroach stench into my clothing
ugh
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I have seen a total of about two insects inside my home, and one was a friendly spider.
Apparently there was one mouse but I never knew it until the cat found it for me
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
you guys should see my place these days it looks like a model home
of course much of that is due to me figuring out that one way to cope w/ the teeth-grinding anxiety of my possibly-ex-GF suddenly moving out is to windex and wipe all of the surfaces in the house, over and over again
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
it seems really counter-intuitive but daily cleaning is a lot more fun than cleaning once a month then letting everything go to hell
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
sorry to hear abt your girl probs, TLG
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
that is an all time dirtbag post gr80 ty
xp not the one about cleaning obv
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
torch it all, start from scratch, promise to start up a cleaning routine in the new world
tlg, I feel for your anxiety and teeth. Try not to chip them. I've done that before..
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
wait i was supposed to clean like all day today
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
approximately the most horrendous thing that has ever happened in the history of clothes. plus it is generally possible to turn the steam off?
― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
it all happened so fast
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i was lost in a fog
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
the fog of, er, cockroaches
― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
you emptied the tank out first, right
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
i can't decide if it's true horror or not largely due to that
i have substituted an easter egg for at least one meal each of the last five days and i am starting to feel really sick as a result. oops
i did that last yr
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
having reread the thread that's not all that dirtbag
the place i live in we had to wait extra days for the landlord to get cleaners in because of the state the previous inhabitants had left it in. notably they decided cleaning the bathtub was enough of a non starter that instead they put in a new one. mainly things were fixed by the time we got here however several weeks later i had cause to move the bed away from the wall to look for something, and discovered not just a patch of used condom wrappers but also used condoms, also a used tampon buried in several layers of toilet roll
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, so was it a furnished place that came with the bed? Otherwise, how did you not see that stuff when moving in the bed?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
yes, it was a furnished place that came with the bed
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
this is surely not a thread in which we own furniture
true dirtbag style is sleeping on a borrowed futon mattress, no frame, on the floor
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I slept on a mattress on the floor for over a year
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
the cheap metal bed frames are pretty easy to come by, but they take box springs... and who the fuck wants to lug around or even own those?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
the first one was just a cheap foam mattress that folded 3 ways. one day I was cleaning, picked up the edge, and realized that the entire underside was sopping wet. I had had a fever w/ nightsweats a few days ago and apparently the water never evaporated from the mattress.
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
I sleep on a matress on the floor no frame, but, uh, it's on a boxspring or w/e
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
My car has broken glass in the passenger-side foot place. I guess my wife brought a mason jar of iced tea into the car and then left it to get sucked up by all the rest of the junk there. Then I set something down on it and now it's a pile of junk full of broken glass.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard of roaches being INSIDE THE MICROWAVE DISPLAY WINDOW...
Similar thing happened in this really cool but really gone-to-shit former hotel/apartment I lived in for a bit. In bed watching the Fox late night lineup on the tube and see movement to my left. Take a glance at my radio alarm clock and crawling on the inside of the display window was this two-inch long, hundred-legged prehistoric looking motherfucker of an insect. Really gave me the heebie jeebies. That place had a huge bug problem. I can't see how I tolerated it, looking back. Kept one of those pistols that shoots suction cupped missiles by the bed for shooting roaches on the wall across the room.
― andrew m., Friday, 9 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Most apts I encountered in England came furnished which would explain Thomp's flat with bed. That is not the case in the US. Nearly all apartments here are unfurnished.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I would love a bed that wasn't on the floor.
― tanuki, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp: You have to use the same furniture as the last tenant?
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Both flats we lived in were furnished and that seemed to be the norm when we were looking. It is just basic stuff. Each place we rented came with a bed, couches, end tables, and a small table and chairs set. I don't know if that's what it's like throughout England but it seemed true of London at least.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
london, you are dirtbag like a motherfucker.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
in my first apt i had a filthy futon mattress on the floor. the place being a dank shithole the thing rotted from the bottom. so in my 2nd apt for like 5 months i slept on a blanket on the hardwood floor. then i found a mattress on the street and brought it home.
― adam, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
this prob doesn't count but:
went to sleep with a breathe-right strip on my nose, woke up with it stuck to my palm
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
ha no that doesn't count
what would count:
went to sleep with a breathe-right strip on my nose last month, woke up with it stuck to my palm today
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
getting out of bed with change stuck to your butt or back is a classic.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 16 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
i took a shower at a friend's house once and there were all these rusty/green pennies in the bathtub-- i asked him what that was all about and he said they stick to him when he falls asleep on his sofa and he doesn't realize it till they fall off in the shower and then he just leaves them there.
dude is a dirt bag hero.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
extra gross bc pennies indicate infrequency of cleaning shower
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
bingo.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
i have no idea why unfurnished rental places would be the norm, that would be insane. i am assuming there is a decent sector of this stuff in places with migrant worker or student populations?
aaaaanyway since this thread was last revived a mouse has moved into the coil behind our fridge.
― thomp, Friday, 16 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
unfurnished rentals are the norm in most cities in the US, but not in Honolulu
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
xp: in america, poor students largely just buy shitty furniture or scavenge it from alleys.
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
what happens to all that furniture when the tenant moves out? damn
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 16 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
All of which furniture?
I had no idea that furnished apartments were available besides at residence hotel type places, much less a common thing somewhere! The few times I see an ad for a furnished apartment I feel very suspicious, like is the furniture haunted? Embedded with spy cams?
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 16 March 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
i have a story about a milkshake machine and roaches but i think it is more suited to the food service horror stories thread than this one
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
i will say that it climaxes in a volcanic eruption of cockroach chunks
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 17 March 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
what do landlords do when someone moves out and leaves furniture behind? xxp
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of dig getting rice grains stuck in my sinuses, it feels good to snort them out and eat them
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link