Friday, 16 January 2004
Gordo the Bug
Okay so Erin and I have another roommate that we call Gordo. Gordo is a termite (we think) that lives inside the wood in Erin´s bed, right near her head. This termite´s name is Gordo because it constantly EATS!! I have been silent for a week on this subject, but Gordo is SO ANNOYING!!!!!! I hear him constantly chomping, it sounds like moraccas, constant chewing; he just can´t get enough of that wood. We haven´t said anything to Nico or Cristina because 1) We don´t want to be rude and 2) We don´t know how to say it in Spanish. So last night, we turned off the light and he just wouldn´t shutup! I turned the light back on and told Erin, ¨That´s it, Gordo has to go! I can´t sleep! ¨ Then we tried to figure out where the little sucker was exactly and started pounding on the wood which didn´t bug Gordo one bit. He kept on happily chomping the wood. So we took out the most acidic thing we could find: Erin´s bottle of nail polish remover, and poured it all over the bed frame....then we lit a match, JK! We poured acetone in all the holes we could find, and then SILENCE. We thought Gordo had finally died. But lo and behold I woke up to the sound of moraccas this morning, and Gordo was having his breakfast. I just don´t know how to kill him, but 'I want him dead, I want his family dead and I want his house burned to the ground!'