More bugz

It sux.

I wouldn't want to run one of these places, and I wouldn't want to stay at them either...

See, Rachel has a phobia about bugaz. I think it sux that she is so freaked out by them, but it really is a pain in the ass when she lets it get in the way of shit.

Last night I sympathized with her.

The first incident at this dive was when we were hanging outside the pub area in the evening. Rachel jumped and pointed out one of the larger roaches I have seen. This one had wings, so I knew I had to stomp on it before it took flight and she had a heart attack.

It made a loud popping sound.

No worries I thought. It was outside. It is Singapore. It has flying cockroaches.

Then we went to our room. Then the walls started crawling.

Small round bugs were crawling along the wall next to the bed. There were more than a few of them. I owe it to the valium she took before we went up that she didn't completely lose her mind. In fact the Valium was just so that she could sleep despite the bugz she had seen. Since I had moved the bed away from the wall, I figured we would be fine. We were not fine.

The next morning, I had an idea to check for bed bugz the way I had seen Shari do it before. So I pulled up the sheet. Just a corner of the sheet. There was a round flat beetle crawling right where I had pulled the sheet up. I covered it right back up, but not before Rachel had seen.

"What was that?"

"It was nothing."

"Was there something there? There was a bug wasn't there?"

Later, after she had taken off to the Singapore airport I returned to the roach motel and found the one kid who worked there who seemed like he didn't have his head completely up his ass. He told me that they had ongoing problems with insects, but that the owner had completely redone the upstairs where we stayed in an attempt to combat the invaders.

This was the reason for all the restrictions on bringing food into the space and why there were also requests for the guests not to place their sleeping bags on the beds. It also explained the owners short temper when I watched him confront a Japanese couple who were eating some dried fish snacks.

The guy was still a dick and the service sucked and the place is an overpriced dump.

I do have a bit more sympathy for the fucker.