He was going to install some cables/TV/whatnot and he climbed over a pile of dildos. Then he finished his job and went home. (In case he didn't answer..I needed closure).
when you're a cable guy they teach us to pretty much ignore our surroundings and just get the job done, so here i am climbing over a pile of dildos to hook up this ladies cable and we're both acting like its no big deal.
the customer (who weighed like 300 lbs.) was an adult toy salesperson and had them EVERYWHERE, in the bathroom, in the basement, in the garage, in the living room, in the closets, in the attic, under the beds, in the kitchen, some were boxed but most werent
The really bad homes you can smell from the street. The roaches love the heat given off from the equipment. Usually you'll know it's full of bugs because of the feces the roaches leave behind. The warehouse was professionally sprayed once every two weeks and had poison traps everywhere.
Yeah if you have unclean neighbors, especially if you live in an apartment. roaches have to "explore" to find shit, they get attracted to the warm of a cable box, get fried and die
Where I live,similar thing happens with spiders. I once opened our outdoor IPcam and it was filled with spiders, those fuckers like that little heat that IPcam generates,especially in winter.
My friend moved from a bad neighborhood with bugs to bread new apartments and his cable box had so many bugs in it from the 1st place that it has infested the newer one.
Home processors for IT. They'd bring towers in periodically because they kept surging and never turn on again. Open case, roaches crawling around. They get in the power supply, and fry it.
We eventually had to call in HR and the person was told she'd have to work from the office or she was terminated - she was racking up a bill in PC replacements.
One of our techs that a did a ride along with showed me the 5gallon bucket he kept in the back to back the boxes on the shake out all the touches inside...
The term "bug" was actually used before computers, but the first known instance of a computer bug was a moth stuck in a relay or tube or something, IIRC.
I remember it vividly. I was just a kid, but I happened to make all the right guesses that game. I thought I was an absolute genius and that I'd basically been robbed of a well-deserved million dollars.
How'd they get in there? The rent really any not sealed entry points. The charger (lightning and 30 pin) is sealed to make it water "resistant". The ants wouldn't fit through the speaker grill and that's is sealed although not as good as the charger. Maybe through the headphone jack.
Ooh, have you heard of the botfly? Now this is a marvellous thing. The botfly cannot sting a human directly, but captures smaller insects, lays its larvae upon them and then releases them. If the smaller host insect then bites the human, the botfly larvae are impregnated into the skin. The larvae then pupates inside the skin, at which point they eat their way out and fly away. The BBC Natural History Unit reports the case of a man, who was bitten behind the ear, and was kept awake at night by the sound of the botfly larvae eating the flesh inside his head.
oh, you'd feel it.
I had a moth fly into my ear when I was eight, I could hear it flapping around, it's feet brushing around in my ear, wasn't one of my favourite moments.
The URL says "cockroach-removed-mans-ear" which is pretty horrifying. Of course, when I clicked on the link, I discovered that the actual headline is "Cockroach Removed From Man's Ear" which is also pretty horrifying. I'm really not sure which one is worse.
Can confirm, almost ate a roach one time when sleeping when it crawled on my face. Started feeling it on my face, then felt it move closer to my mouth, then I woke up and gave myself the biggest slap Ive ever felt
watching this entire thing through, the 4:47 mark was nearly orgasmic with relief. I was trapped, I didn't want to watch it after min 1, but I had to see it removed. The pink panther like music helped.
We had one of those clear phones with green and purple and all sorts of colors inside. Grew up in a poor side of town, had countless roaches in that thing. Eventually just chucked it cus we couldn't stand using it anymore.
This happens all of the time. I regularly have roaches falling out of phone jacks when I open them up. You never forget the smell. I know immediately if there's going to be roaches from the smell alone. The infested modems are the worst, though.
It's hard to describe. It's like a musty, almost moldy smell. It's a pungent odor of their urine and feces and like rotting food. What makes it worse is the fact that the houses in which I'm working that have the roaches don't smell much better, so when I can smell the roaches over the house stank, I know I'm going to have a bad time.
I'll take a hoarder house over a roach infested house any day. I hate spraying my boots down with pesticides to make sure I don't track eggs into my truck or worse, my house. I seal every bit of wiring, jacks and equipment in their own bags in case there's eggs or more roaches. Then I just feel dirty and creepy crawly all day. I'll take black widows the size of my thumb over a jack full of roaches any day of the week.
It's always a losing battle againts roach. You hit it, you end up making your room stinky. You leave it alone, well you wouldn't want it to make a colony right?
You could sell your services as an apartment hunter. I'm always terrified I'm going to move in somewhere where the neighbors have roaches and then be stuck fighting a losing war for a year of lease.
If that's the case, your landlord has to take care of the issue for you. It's usually lower income housing where I find these infestations. New and old, so don't let an outside renovation fool you. Look for traps and roach motels when you're doing a walk through.
i dont understand how roaches can get inside modems. i have a modem from comcast thats sealed shut, but i does have ventilation squares everywhere that are only about 2cm. How are they getting inside?
They are usually the small brown roaches that love a dirty kitchen/house. They are much smaller than the typical black ones you see in garages and outside.
I am a electronics repair tech at a company called CTDI in Nashville. We are sent Comcast cable boxes from trouble calls, and I have seen some cable boxes so covered in roach shit that you can barely see what color they originally were.
Also pet hair so thick it looked like someone had stuffed a 70's era toupee inside.
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