La Elelu cha - Cockroach in Bedroom

I was sorting my old blog site and one of baby koji's song reminded me to post it on the new site.
Elelu is cockroach in Hawaiian, if you live in Hawaii, you have to befriend with this little critter. That's why Hawaiians made a song of cliche.

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She says, "It is usual to find roaches in bathroom and kitchen, but bedroom shouldn't have any roaches!"
That's right. Kimberly found cockroach shuffling on the bedroom carpet.
First thing, you cannot let it go! They are fast. If you let that thing go behind wall between a small gap, they ain't coming back. You gotta catch it right then.

She yells, "Bring me a paper!"
I wonder why paper.
Anyway, I got a kitchen paper, thinking to myself, "should I get tissue paper?" for a moment.
Her occasional yelp raises the tension in the house.

Then I walk into the bedroom, finding her crouching on the floor.
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She caught a cockroach with her hand. She covered her hand over the cockroach on the floor so that it cannot escape.
Every time it walks on her hand, she yelps as if she practices to scream. Every time it only gets better.
She looks at me with puzzled eyes, "I don't need a kitchen paper, I needed a normal paper."
Of course, she needed to cover her hand. What she need is not a paper, she need exterminator or something.

If I were in her position, I would passed out. In my mind, people and cockroaches DO NOT touch each other.

Since it is not me holding a roach, I say "Hold on, let me grab my camera."
She is serious, "hey, come help me...", well, that means my photography is "veto".
I then thought about feeding it to chickens. They love eating little critters.
Centipedes, worms, grasshoppers, things that we would normally avoid, they get turned on...

I went to kitchen to retrieve a tupperware so that we can store the thing until tomorrow morning. Too bad chickens are not nocturnal.
well, she replaced her hand with tupperware. It was smooth. After that, not very smart move. She started to cover the tupperware with paper, hoping that it perfectly seals.
Truth is it does not.
Roach finds a little escape hole and crawl right out onto her hand.
"Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
Perhaps it shook the whole house. it is past 10pm, but can't help it!
I can't help laughing.

Well, I take her tupperware and lid, calmly cover it in the container and close the lid.
sometimes I wonder why she exaggerate so much more for this simple matter.

Comments

  1. Kimberly5/11/09, 10:41 PM

    There is a particularly large cockroach that often shuffles around the bathroom late at night. I can hear it so often I look over to see it walking up and down the walls.
    Because the car has recently become home to two varieties of the critters and the hoihoi brand sticky traps were on sale last week at KTA, I invested in 10 of them and have been having some fun. I'm happy to report that the traps placed in the car filled up quite quickly and have already been replaced with clean ones. I placed a couple new traps in the bathroom hoping to find my big sucker but to no avail have discovered that even the medium sized roach is able to drag it's self out of the sticky mess.
    What's next? Give me the super size cockroach trap please. Perhaps it will look something like a mouse trap.

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  2. Unknown5/12/09, 11:13 AM

    Ths story is hilarious! Hope you catch the huge one in your bathroom!

    PS - I would have liked to see some pictures!

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