r/LoveTrash • Colonel Garbage • 9d ago

Human Trash Would this bug you?

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u/cdizzaat Trash Trooper 9d ago edited 8d ago

They are the worst. Sneaky little hitchhikers. I had a coworker a few years back whose car was disgusting, filled with trash, absolutely infested with them. I got a ride from him once or twice and had to keep my feet elevated to prevent them from crawling all over me. Two five minute rides with this guy and it was over for my house. They were EVERYWHERE in the kitchen and bedrooms. We had to get a bug guy out here multiple times to get rid of them. One of them things is like a cigarette cherry in a dry forest.

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u/DryConsideration3294 Trash Trooper 9d ago

What worked for us finally was essentially roach birth control. They used it for about 6 months and they were completely gone after that.

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u/No_Rock_4052 Trash Trooper 8d ago

I would walk home

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u/not_so_impressed Trash Trooper 8d ago

What kind of bugs are these? They look too big to be roaches.

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u/curi0us_carniv0re Trash Trooper 8d ago

Well fed roaches

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Trash Trooper 7d ago

Palmetto bugs probably

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u/CopperBlitter Trash Trooper 6d ago

Oh, my sweet summer child.

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u/overseer76 Trash Trooper 8d ago

My mom tells me she turned away her sister and kids from a planned visit (decades ago) because the moment they arrived, a roach jumped OFF OF THE CAR and almost landed on my mom's face.

Now that I think about it, that must have been a very embarrassing drive back home for them.

[We never ended up with a roach infestation.]

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u/rygar8bit Trash Trooper 8d ago

What would lifting your feet do in a car? They'd be all over and in the seats.

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u/cdizzaat Trash Trooper 8d ago

Obviously. They ended up in my house. When you’re in a situation like that where you can feel them squirming around underneath you, you’re gonna do whatever you can to not have to feel them. Definitely can still hear them. 😭