Missed opportunity because of best friend's hitches

[Tracy]

My husband and I live pretty far away from... everyone we've ever known, so I don't get to see my friends often. Tonight there was a roach in my apartment (the worst part is that there is still a roach in there). I called my best friend for support to help keep me calm while I searched for it since my husband was/is working. What happened was: I saw it, I screamed and ran away, I grabbed a shoe, and then I went back and it was gone. So I grabbed my phone and called my best friend. She was sniffing a lot, which is normal since she has pet allergies and the people she lives with in her college apartment have a dog and a cat. I didn't really think much of it since she likes to avoid sneezing. I don't get why everyone I know is like that.

So here I am in in my kitchen holding one of my shoes from my marching band days in one hand and a can of lysol (I was really hoping it would have the effect bug spray would) in the other and my friend is on the phone (which I had laying on the kitchen table) making gasping noises. I'm carefully moving things around and jumping back quickly in case this beastly roach decides to pop out of nowhere and so now I am grabbing the griddle and moving it back and in the background I hear ha, heh, heh, HEH and then nothing. After a few seconds I move the griddle quickly and my friend lets out a loud, wet ha-CHMPT and of COURSE under the griddle is where the cockroach is. It starts crawling around and I am frantically trying to hit it with my shoe and my friend is still in the background hitching again and my attention wants to go to listening but the part of me scared senseless is trying to kill this stupid roach. The roach pauses for a few seconds, and I knew that was when I should have started started smacking my shoe against it repeatedly but my friend's desperate buildups were getting really distracting. She kept going from a quiet ha, heh, has to eh, HEH, AH, AHHH and then her infamous pause before... ha-chmpt, ha-CHMPT, heh-eh-HEH-CHMPT!

I looked back where the roach was, and it was gone. As awesome as it was to hear her sneeze again, I wish I would have killed the darned roach.

Now I am sitting in projection at the theater my husband runs typing this since I am a big, pathetic chicken that got run out of the apartment by a roach. It's not the best observation ever, but it's the only one I've had in what feels like forever.

[Hankysneeze]

Its a shame the roach interuppted some fine sneezes, who does it think it is lol

[Anonymouse]

I'm terrified of roaches, but after having that go on in my ear I probably would have taken a break, renegade roach in the apartment or no.

[Lalena]

Ha Ha!! This was so cute and funny! Sorry you missed your opportunity to crush the roach, but at least you got a yummy treat out of it.

[Honkytonklagoon]

That was hilarious. Roaches are yucky. Maybe when you get that taken care of, you can call your friend up and see what happens.