X-Mozilla-Status: 1003 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <53F794B7.1030800@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:06:31 -0700 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jessica.ppmrentals@gmail.com Subject: 137 12th Street: Exterminator A No-Show. Cockroaches In The Bathroom. Slugs In The Kitchen. Yum! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jessica, We received a memo on our door the evening of 19 August announcing that a cockroach exterminator would be onsite the 21st between 10 Am and 12 PM and that we would need to be present. We were here - but the exterminator was a no-show. Which is odd, because I saw the same exterminator drive through the complex, a few days earlier - we have a working acquaintance because he is local to Fortuna and was the first person to confirm the bedbug infestation. He didn't seem like an unreliable sort of person. And so I am inclined to wonder if there was some sort of last-minute change of heart on the part of the owner, regarding the preferred vendor? Because the owner strikes me as a sort of unreliable person. Penny-wise, maybe, but pound-foolish. Speaking as the person occupying the apartment directly beneath Alan Attar's bug-infested apartment, I need to report that over the past few days I have seen a surge of cockroaches, large and small - late at night, around 3 AM, when I go into the bathroom, and turn on the light, three times in the past three nights I have surprised a cockroach. The first two got away but the third one wasn't so lucky. #1 was a baby. #2 was pretty big. #3 was a teenager. Food for thought. I also found trails of slug slime all over my kitchen hand towels two mornings ago. I set the towels aside to show them to the exterminator and ask if he had anything for slugs. I still have the towels. I don't want to distribute slug bait inside my kitchen. That's for outdoor use - not indoor use - and it's not safe for use around children, either. I'd direct this to Dan Janney but his email was not included on the memo - and I prefer to communicate in writing. Regards, ~richard