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The repairman just came and fixed our washing machine.

It was cockroaches. Living in the circuit boards, where it's damp and warm.

Little fuckers.

Technically this isn't covered by the warranty. But it was only a couple of cockroaches, and the guy was leaving the company in two weeks, so he swapped the circuit board over for free.

He was a chatty guy, the way repairmen often are. He told me how he got a call to repair a fridge once. The wiring was crawling with thousands of roaches. So he told the owner that it wasn't covered by warranty, but if the owner got some bug-spray, he'd come back in a week and fix it for free. The owner refused. He wanted cold beer and he wanted it now. So the repairman changed the circuits and charged him a hundred dollars plus parts. And three months later the owner called back with the same problem.

I'm about to head down to the supermarket now, buy a megaton of insect killer, and rain death down on those six-legged motherfuckers.


(And look, I don't need to say this, but just in case: this guy did me a favour, yeah? Don't no-one go dobbing him in.)

Date: 2005-03-28 08:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] damien-wise.livejournal.com
Eep, you've reminded me -- when you're planning on killing critteres, plan on cleaning-up their little corpses a few days later. It sounds obvious but some people don't seem to consider it.
There are few things worse than finding the reason the refrigerator's bit quieter and giving-off a strange smell is that there's a decomposing rat wedged in a fan. :-P~

Date: 2005-03-28 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andricongirl.livejournal.com
im not sure how we can get them out of the other appliances though :[
I'm sure i've seen them go In to the microwave too :[

I think a bug bomb is in order :[

Date: 2005-03-28 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baralier.livejournal.com
I'm sure i've seen them go In to the microwave too :[

Probably for a bit of solarium work.

Date: 2005-03-28 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andricongirl.livejournal.com
yeah i hear the eggs can still come out and can hatch after the roach is dead :[

Date: 2005-03-28 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txxxpxx.livejournal.com
This thread is turning into a car accident, totally horrible but I just can't look away. *shudder* *roaches*

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