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Man, none of you would fare well in Florida (granted, why would you want to?). We have palmetto bugs which are just roaches on steroids and they’re everywhere. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve murdered. May they rest in hell.
Leftover Birkenstocks from college (before they became ‘cool?' again) moved into my bathroom where they became the roach killing weapon of choice. I highly recommend Birks because 1) the soles are hard and 2) the grooves aren’t deep, which makes for easy cleanup. :-)
Other than one time where I found a giant roach on my bed (and then panicked every time I felt the sheets against my body thinking there was one in the bed) they lived exclusively in the bathroom and came up through the tub. Big ass suckers.
I was so relieved to see someone else here called their doorman. I did the same on my virgin cockroach encounter—as if it would do anything. Doorman’s response: oh, it’s not a cockroach, it’s a water bug. Don’t worry, honey. This was pre-google. For a split second, water-bug sounded a tiny bit better.
For years, I developed a stutter step walking into the bathroom. I’d flip on the light at 3a, and wait for a runner. If I saw one, I’d close the bathroom door to lock us both in, grab the Birk, bring about a murderous attack, pee, clean said sandal, and go back to sleep. Eventually when I left NYC, it took me about 2 years to learn how to walk into a bathroom normally again without the automatic pause to see if there were middle of the night visitors.
Good luck OP. It’s the price of NYC living. Someday you’ll have stories to tell from the quietude of suburbia
I once worked up the courage to kill a roach and then it FLEW at me. While I was trying to hook up with a woman in her apartment. It was my lifetime least-manly moment.
Wait til you kill your first rat
Came for a light read and instead I found distress. God speed on your journey.
I had one in my apt. years ago. It went like this:
1. Cry
2. Call Mom at 3am (two states away, unable to help)
3. Beg doorman to come kill it for me
4. Move bed into the middle of the room so I can view all angles
5. Sleep with lights on for a month
6. Blame my apt. building for my insane electric bill
7. Apt does not pay electric bill for one month as requested even though it was their fault I had to sleep with the lights on. (Sort of 😬)
No! Well your room is theirs now so that makes sense. Currently sitting in bed paralyzed by fear mostly because it was the size of a baby elephant and I’m barefoot and what if it has friends (it probably does?????)
Don't clean up the roadkill yet. You need to let its friends see it so it can move somewhere else.
I just read that they will come eat it?! Monsters. MONSTERS. Leave for business trip tomorrow and thinking maybe I’ll never return/won’t be able to due to complete roach takeover...
Welcome to New York - there are more roaches and rats than people. Sleep tight.
But do you eat lobsters? They’re considered the cockroach of the sea 😋😋 the next cockroach you see remember that one day, it might become an exquisite romantic meal
Congrats, OP, you’ve taken your first steps into a larger world. Pretty soon you’ll be killing roaches just to watch their expressions change. Go ahead and purchase a bottle of scotch and some coke and consume both while blasting Taytay’s “Welcome to New York” at full volume.
I once woke up to a huge roach sitting on my chest and staring at me. I will never be the same.
Oh good @S&S, something nice to think about while I fall into a very shallow and restless pre-flight sleep. But seriously, very impressed by your perseverance and that you are still alive to tell this tale.
@CD1 I retract my former post. There will be no sleep, not even shallow and restless sleep.
Get a cat
Yes SR1: your landlord is responsible for pest control and there is advice on 311 on dealing with this.
I once woke up with a (small) roach on my face. It was horrible. Our building is old and our specific corner of the building had a recurring roach problem a one of the tenants wouldn’t let the exterminator spray her apartment, because of her cat might not like it. That was resolved eventually but it was tough going for a while.
I just moved out of a basement studio I lived in for four years because the rent was so cheap so let me tell you about finding and killing cockroaches. Used to joke that they were my doormen lol. I’m still procrastinating on removing the box spring that’s laid on the floor because I’m afraid of what could be underneath it. NYC does that to you.
Wait til you kill your first rat
Roach Motels. Buy them at CVS in packs of 12. You’ll never see another roach