Bob.
It was a nice day and all, with the preschool orientation, totally being in love with Sami’s 3-year-old class teacher, and an afternoon revolving around the kiddy pool and the quest for air conditioning.
So now that I’ve appreciated the positive aspects, let me tell you about the two minutes that have besmirched the reputation of today entirely.
Sami whimpered a little, so I peeked in on her, turned on her bedroom fan, and ducked into my bathroom, which is next door to her room.
Something fluttered from the counter, out the door and onto the wall in the hallway. I viewed it in profile (sorry, no pictures. Oh wait, no, not sorry) and it looked like a big beetle. I presumed this because of the presumed fluttering/flying.
I didn’t want to cross its path, so I stood in my bathroom doorway staring at it while it waved its smarmy tentacles at me. As soon as I caught my breath, I got Ben to come and take a look at this “disturbing creature,” I think that’s what I called it…. he got a dustbin and some flat thing to trap it with, and took it outside.
I kind of don’t ever want to go in my bathroom again.
By the way, he was a roach as big as half my hand and his name is Bob. He was big enough to earn a name from Ben. And he’s probably writing a bad review of us on Yelp right now, hopefully telling his buddies that the sweet summer bathroom he found has shit for hospitality, and they could do much better. Well, that is the best I feel I can hope for at the moment. And he’s the first and only bug of his kind I’ve ever seen in my house, so I am assuming this is happening because of the heat. And don’t, please, don’t crack my delusion because I want to sleep tonight.
PS I’m assured by my friend Mel that this giant bug isn’t the same kind of dirty roach that indicates squalor. This kind really just are looking for a place to get out of the beastly heat for a while, and that’s why they usually hang out in bathrooms. I’m comforting myself with this even while I may not go back in there tonight, and may think about not going in there tomorrow.
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I suppose it is at this moment that you are happy to have more than one bathroom!
If you did only have one bathroom, I wonder what you would do. I just can’t imagine you tinkling outside where there are certainly more bugs and “disturbing creatures.” So, I guess you’d face your fear, inspect the room, and then do your business. Yikes! (I must really be tired to have thought this much about your concern.)
At any rate, I hope Sami had a wonderful day at school!!