Battle for The Living Room: The War Continues...

Last night when Megan and I got home a sneaky little bitch of a Palmetto bug ran in the door with us.

I got Marla and Demetri and let them chase it around the living room for a few minutes. Then I got Emo when things were taking too long. (These are cats, by the way).

Then, we (all) lost sight of this particular roach nemesis. Megan and I decided it was far enough from the bedrooms that we should give up and just give it that corner of the house. So we did.

Later I got up to pee (or something else that makes sense as to why I would be up) and all the cats were in the living room keeping watch over something I couldn't see.

Today, I decided to clean the house (yes, even my bathroom) and in the living room floor... there it was... the DEAD Palmetto bug. I tried to vacuum it up, and it was a no go. I have determined that a dead Palmetto bug gets one square foot of floor space that it can have. It will continue to have that floor space until somebody else comes here and gets it out of the floor for me.

This is the post I left on Megan's Facebook to let her know of recent developments in this case:

"So... I thought I should tell you, the cats did their jobs. I found a dead Palmetto bug in the living room floor this afternoon. Also, in case you ever need to know, a vacuum will not pick up a big dead Palmetto bug.

So... there's still a dead Palmetto bug in the living room floor. I'm giving him that square foot of carpet (and writing a blog about it later, of course).
But... on a related note I think this incident should be included in that book 101 Reasons a Cat is Better Than A Man. It's not really making the cat better than the man, though. However, it does prove that a cat can do one of the five things we've deemed boys useful for (you know those five things).

In closing, I'm thinking of settling down with a boyfriend for the summer... just to take care of the "killing Palmetto bugs" part of my life. I might even make an eHarmony thing and put it on my profile.

Thoughts?"



(Also, for interested parties the "Five Thing Boys Are Useful For" are sex, opening jars, killing bugs, beating hard levels on video games, and fixing cars.)