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[Seanette]

Skunks are easy. And you can get em descented and they take to a box like a housecat. You can even get em with spots!

I met a very tame skunk at a petting zoo once, solid golden blonde fur. Very pretty girl, and very affectionate. She was handed to me, and snuggled right in to my shoulder. If she'd been a cat, I think she'd have been purring.

As far as how they are as pets, wonder how well they co-exist with other pets, such as cats or birds.

[Ryu]

true
but i just took my final
and i didnt know the majority of the questions
so...
i hate biology!!

[Primer]

I guess we need to thank the Good Lord that he's confined the palmetto bugs (giant roaches) to SC, GA, and FL.

You've never lived in Texas, have you? Growing up in Austin, those were the only kind of roaches I knew. It wasn't till I was 21 and living in my own place that I ever even saw the "regular" roaches, and I wondered what those "teeny weeny things" were!

[DesignFox]

My BF was born in Texas (military family). He doesn't remember them, but his mom told me stories about Big Roaches... EEEWWW, I couldn't handle that.

[PorkChop]

I hate roaches!! In my apartment building, the guy who lived on the first floor on the other side of me moved out several months ago. He didn't keep his place clean and he had a roach problem. So the front office bombed the apartment. Some of those icky roaches came up into my apartment. They were the little baby ones and I found them in the bathroom. When I caught them, I flushed them down the toliet.

Your corporate office needs to grow a spine and charge those those roach loving bastards of fumigating the store, damaged goods and pain and suffering of seeing HUNDREDS or roaches scatter everywhere . How the hell did these idiots stuff so many roaches in a DVD case?

[purplecat41877]

Why would anyone put roaches in a DVD case? That's a horrible thing to do and I'm sorry you had to deal with that, NightAngel.

[Thrifty]

and i didnt know the majority of the questions
so...
i hate biology!!

I just took my biology final as well, biology is evil. I'm soooooo hoping for a D in that class.

[Melxb]

.... and there's that one episode of the "X-Files" that I can't watch.

Ah, that would be "War of the Coprohaghes." LOVE that episode!!!! Roaches and all.....

[csdrone]

DH sends his condolences. He is an exterminator and has seen crapholes with thousands of roaches before Some people are just pigs.

[Cosmic Cat]

My BF was born in Texas (military family). He doesn't remember them, but his mom told me stories about Big Roaches... EEEWWW, I couldn't handle that.

Ah yes, Texas roaches. They are as long as your hand, and we call them "waterbugs," but their real is "wood roach." They are like something from a horror movie. Now I am not making this next part up, trust me.

During the day, they live in the sewers. If you look down a sewer drain, you'll see nothing but a black, seething mass that is the wood roaches. At night, they SWARM out. You see them in large numbers crawling up the sides of people's houses and stuff. It's really creepy. One time I went to a pool party and left after dark because the wood roaches swarmed out over my friend's privacy fence. It freaked me out so much that I couldn't stay.

My neighbors told me a story about the wood roaches that happened, luckily, before I moved in. This guy one day got tired of the swarming roaches, so he bought roach bombs and dropped them down in the sewer.

Have you seen those videos on TLC and such of Biblical apocalyptic type swarms of locusts? Well that's what it looked like, only with roaches, not locusts. The roaches came out of the sewer all at once. If I had lived there at the time, I would have dialed 911 and then had a heart attack and died.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"War of the Coprohaghes."



Oh, man, that's brilliant.

[4Gifts4Lisa]

And just to "up" the grossness factor...

my dad was stationed in Panama when I was a year old. One day, my mom looked down to find me happily crunchin' on a cockroach. How she didn't barf and pass out is totally beyond me...

[XCashier]

The "Higher Powers" actually told my SM that we can't confront the roach people about the roaches.

Obviously a decision made by a suit who has spent his entire working life in the front office and never, ever dealt with customers face-to-face, or the workings of the stores.

Do it anyway. Despte what the suits want you to think, some customers are not worth retaining.

Agreed. How much money does the company want to lose to damaging out infested DVDs and fumigating the storefront versus how much do these fleabags actually spend at the store? Tell those filthy sleazoids to take a hike, and take their six-legged babies with them.

[technical.angel]

Since skunks were mentioned as pets, I have to post this poem.

A nod to Miss (soon to be Mrs!!!) CSRKim.

"A Valentine for Ernest Mann" by Naomi Shihab Nye

You can't order a poem
Like you order a taco
Walk up to the counter
Say, "I'll take two"
And expect them to be handed to you
On a silver plate.

Still, I like your spirit.
Anyone who says,
"Here's my address, write ME a poem"
Deserves something in reply.
So I'll tell you a secret instead.

So I'll tell you a secret instead:
poems hide.
In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping.
They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings
the moment
before we wake up.
What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us find them.

Once I knew a man
who gave his wife
two skunks for a valentine.
He couldn't understand why she was crying.
"I thought they had such beautiful eyes."
And he was serious.
He was a serious man
who lived in a serious way.
Nothing was ugly
just because the world said so.
He really liked those skunks.
So, he re-invented them as valentines
and they became beautiful.
At least, to him.
And the poems that had been hiding
in the eyes of skunks for centuries
crawled out and curled up at his feet.

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us
we find poems.
Check your garage,
the odd sock
in your drawer,
the person you almost like,
but not quite.
And let me know.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I would at the very least terminate the account and never allow them to rent there ever again.

M