when i can smell them you don't see them, i was just trainned... and i can
also tell if its one of those situations where they are present but treated
for, or if they are present and nobody cares, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>>i can gaurentee the price of the resto in no way correlates with the
>>roaches present, i mean realistically there are generally some because of
>>the type of buisness and type of building, but sometimes it is
>>overwhelming, Lee
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> I am recalling one of the worst meals of my life at a place in Nescopeck,
> PA. The place was crawling with some sort of beetles. That's what I was
> told they were. My SIL assured me they were not cockroaches. But
> still... I was worried that they would be in the food. My husband, BIL
> and SIL were all laughing at me. Told me to get over it and just eat. It
> was very late by then. Like 10:00 pm. My SIL used to drive me nuts. She
> would say something like, "Give me just a minute. Just a MINUTE!" I soon
> learned that I needed to give her a good three hours at least. Going to
> dinner with her always meant it would be many hours past the time she told
> you it would be. So by this point I was very hungry. And I had nothing
> back at home that I could eat. Home being my BIL and SIL's cabin.
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> I can't remember the particulars of this trip. Once their fridge broke
> down. The stove did work but it was a royal pain to turn on. It was a
> gas stove and my BIL had fixed it in such a way that you had to crawl
> underneath to get the gas on. He was afraid his daughter might
> accidentally turn it on. She was a toddler then. There was a microwave.
> But... There were also mice and/or rats living there. They told me there
> were. So I couldn't keep anything out on the counter. And there was no
> pantry. It was just a little bitty cabin. And I tried not to eat in it.
>
> So I squinched my eyes as best I could, sat on the edge of my seat and
> ordered the ravioli. That's a common dish in that part of PA and it is
> usually frozen stuff that has been boiled and sauce added. I figured
> there would be less chance of getting bugs in there than there would be
> with something like a pizza.
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> I wound up eating very little of that meal. Bugs were crawling over me,
> over my purse, onto the seat, the table and the wall next to me.
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> And then every time I tried to pick up a piece of ravioli on my fork it
> would splash back down onto my plate. And they had put an extreme amount
> of sauce on that plate. The ravioli would fall and splash sauce onto me.
> I remember quite well what I was wearing that day. It was a pink, blue
> and yellow tie dyed top. And then it had red splashes all over it. And
> there was no washer or dryer at the cabin.
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> When we got home I spent several hours washing that top out in the sink
> using dish soap and shampoo, scrubbing until I got all of the stains out.
> Then I hung it in the shower to dry.
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> I just do not see how people can sit and eat with bugs all around them.
> And I do not see how that place stayed in business. There were tons of
> people eating in there. But you could see the bugs crawling all over the
> screen door as you entered. *shudder*
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