The Amazing Bug Killer
So, you may not have heard or you may have (I can't recall what personal stuff I've actually posted about lately) but I got my accounting internship at the airport for the summer. It's pretty good so far. I'm doing internal auditing.
So I figured the excitement of today was LJ worthy: *not for the bug-squemish*
So we come back from lunch, me and the other intern and we share our audit office with the law department which is apparently full of women. We have to walk through their side of the office to get to our back offices but they're all out of their offices- one lady is hiding behind her office door with a can of Raid and two women are standing at either end of the hallway, quickly moving a 'wet floor' orange cone from one spot to the other.
The intern and I just stand there for a minute, confused before I smiled, because they're all jumpy, and ask "Spider?"
They go "No...Roach."
So we laughed and walked past them to our offices. Well, I went to the bathroom and come out and they're still standing there. One of the ladies says "Someone go fetch (my boss)" but he went out to lunch so then the other guy in the audit department comes out and asks what's going on and he's very...feminine...and says NO NO NO NO and then asks them if it's dancing around, half dead before doing a VERY credible imitation of a roach spinning around.
The whole thing was absolutely hilarious. So the roach is sitting under this cone, which they're afraid it won't hold for long because the cone is kinda lifted off the ground so the other guy gives them a can of disinfectant to poison the roach with but none of the women want to go near it to spray it (especially because they said most of them had open toed shoes, which I did too) but they said if it runs out, it will run straight into one of their offices.
By this time the roach has crawled out from under the cone to more shrieks from the women. Now, I don't like bugs, I don't like getting near them, and I like roaches less than I like spiders but give me enough paper towel and I'm just brave enough to go squish things.
So I'm just cracking up at all these older women who, really, just needed a chair to complete the image so I run into the bathroom, grab a wad of towel, come out and walk up to it. I swear there was a collective gasp as they watched me approach the beast then I tried to grab it, but it started running towards me so I quickly squashed it a little with my foot then scooped it up and killed it in the towel, did two big bows, and left.
Then for the rest of the day, I had the legal women walking past me at the copier thanking me profusely. It was the funniest thing ever. I reckon i deserve a raise. :)
/end of pointless story.
So I figured the excitement of today was LJ worthy: *not for the bug-squemish*
So we come back from lunch, me and the other intern and we share our audit office with the law department which is apparently full of women. We have to walk through their side of the office to get to our back offices but they're all out of their offices- one lady is hiding behind her office door with a can of Raid and two women are standing at either end of the hallway, quickly moving a 'wet floor' orange cone from one spot to the other.
The intern and I just stand there for a minute, confused before I smiled, because they're all jumpy, and ask "Spider?"
They go "No...Roach."
So we laughed and walked past them to our offices. Well, I went to the bathroom and come out and they're still standing there. One of the ladies says "Someone go fetch (my boss)" but he went out to lunch so then the other guy in the audit department comes out and asks what's going on and he's very...feminine...and says NO NO NO NO and then asks them if it's dancing around, half dead before doing a VERY credible imitation of a roach spinning around.
The whole thing was absolutely hilarious. So the roach is sitting under this cone, which they're afraid it won't hold for long because the cone is kinda lifted off the ground so the other guy gives them a can of disinfectant to poison the roach with but none of the women want to go near it to spray it (especially because they said most of them had open toed shoes, which I did too) but they said if it runs out, it will run straight into one of their offices.
By this time the roach has crawled out from under the cone to more shrieks from the women. Now, I don't like bugs, I don't like getting near them, and I like roaches less than I like spiders but give me enough paper towel and I'm just brave enough to go squish things.
So I'm just cracking up at all these older women who, really, just needed a chair to complete the image so I run into the bathroom, grab a wad of towel, come out and walk up to it. I swear there was a collective gasp as they watched me approach the beast then I tried to grab it, but it started running towards me so I quickly squashed it a little with my foot then scooped it up and killed it in the towel, did two big bows, and left.
Then for the rest of the day, I had the legal women walking past me at the copier thanking me profusely. It was the funniest thing ever. I reckon i deserve a raise. :)
/end of pointless story.