Oh man...thats about nasty.

Had a very odd and nasty experience today. But before I tell it...let me paint a little history.

There's a customer that comes in once in a blue moon that we call "The Copy Lady"....she gets copies of odd things. Magazine subscription cards, envelopes...etc. And she never pays full price. She just says "well this will do" and empties whatever change she has on the counter. And its always 20 or so cents short of what it needs to be.

But we ignore it because its not a big deal.

The owners wife Janice puts large bowls of candy on the counter from time to time for customers & general public. Well...if the copy lady shows up....she empties the bowl. No matter how full it is. It all disappears into pockets, bags...wherever.

So not the customer anyone really wants to deal with. And Janice is usually the person who deals with her.

Fast forward to this afternoon. Janice was out of town for the day, so one of the other designers, Tara, takes care of incoming customers at the front door.

Enter the copy lady.

Tara walks into the designers area with a horrified look on her face, looks at me and says "Chris..........come with me...." in a very hurried/fearful tone.

I wonder whats up....follow her into the development/copy area.

"Oh my God you are NOT going to believe this....I mean its just crazy.....just....crazy! Roaches!"

"What?"

"Shes covered in friggin roaches! GO LOOK!"

I'm like...what the hell? You're exaggerating....you saw one roach and are a huge wuss.

So Tara makes her copies and the copy lady leaves. I start to smell this horrible odor....like that funk you smell when someone hasn't taken a bath in a month kinda funk. Not pleasant.

So I go get some febreeze and start spraying around the counter. I look outside through one of the large front windows, and see the copy lady standing there opening her umbrella....and a HUGE-ass roach crosses her shoulders from one side to the other. Now I'm a good 10-15 feet away from her. So when I say large....I mean stub your toe on the bitch big.

I look at the counter, COVERED with roaches now. I counted & killed at least 10 or 12....and there are more that managed to hide.

So we've had to call the pest control people to come out and spray before we close. Thats how bad it was.

I've seen more roaches today then in my first two weeks in the apartment Jules and I moved into.

Scary. Nasty. True.

Its like a friggin Alfred Hitchcock movie..... ROACHES! In Panavision!