The Creepy Crawlies are here!

Looks like the best part of summer is here. The creepy crawlies have started creeping and crawling out of wherever they had hidden for the last few months. I was getting a drink from the fridge when I heard my wife screaming and shouting. When I rushed into the study she was shaking and stuttering and she just brushed past me into the living room. I followed her asking what was wrong and she finally managed to calm down enough to tell me that a cockroach had been crawling on her arm.

I went back into the study and sure enough, on her laptop was the ugliest bug I have ever seen. It looked as if it had descended directly from Kafka's monster himself. The thing was black in most parts with some silver and grey spots all over. It had wings but it did not look intimidated enough to fly away. We stared each other down, not one of us giving the other an inch. From the living room, I could hear my wife shouting, "Kill it! Kill it!"

I went back and got the bug spray and some paper. As soon as it saw the insecticide it tried to crawl away. I was not going to let it escape that easily though. First I tried to grab it with the paper as I did not want spray on my wife's laptop. But the creature proved more elusive, slipping away everytime I thought I had caught it. I finally managed to wear it down and it dropped onto the carpet where I let shot off a barrage of toxic gas.

The thing struggled but was no match for the might of chemical warfare. A few wrigglings later, it had flown off to creepy crawly hell. I picked it up with some paper and took it off to my wife who was still shaking. She did not want to look at it, instead told me to go flush the thing. So I dropped it into the toilet and pushed the lever.

This was probably a scout or the advance party. We can expect more of their kind in the coming days. Not just the cockroaches. The spiders, ants and flies will all be coming out in droves. The only thing we can do is be prepared and make sure we have enough bugspray.