Everyone, I need your support. There is a
terrible thing going on in my
home. I've lived at the same place for over a year now, but recently changed
roommates. My previous
domicile partner was fairly neat, but he was a
worthless bum, who refused to pay
rent, but actually had the nerve to ask me for money for the
cable bill. Now, I got a new roommate, who has a job, and is a
nice person. The problem is that we are both fairly
messy people. We're not
that bad, but we've got this habit of leaving
beer bottles and dishes around the house.
One day, I noticed a few gnats flying around in the corner of the room. They seemed to be centered around a cup that, about two weeks previous, had contained cranberry juice. Now it just contained a thick, red liquid with a nice mold skin on top. Being disgusted by this, we quickly threw the cup into the dumpster, hoping to purge it from our memory banks forever. Unfortunately, this would not be possible, as that vile, evil cup left behind a terrible curse.
The next day, I went into the kitchen, to throw a dish upon the ceremonial mound that was collecting in the kitchen sink. As I approached, I noticed the swarm. There were hundreds of the little buggers, it was horrifying. Apperently, when we removed the terrible cup, the fruit flies flew off to find a new home. They came across my sink, which must have seemed like a mecca. Old, slightly decaying food matter, stagnant water, fruit fly heaven, all the way. In that one short day, they had proliferated and multiplied. They were now a force to be reckoned with.
We washed the dishes, so they moved to the trash can. We took out the trash, they found some half-full beer bottles in the living room. We threw them out, and made a desperate, systematic purge of all trash in the house. We thought we had them then. There was no more trash, so there was no more food. We cleaned the grime off the counters. I mopped the floor!
This effort seemed to greatly reduce their numbers (possibly due to the many I trapped inside beer bottles, then threw away), but they still live on. Sometimes they still hover around the sink, even when it's completely empty. If you so much as leave a beer sitting out while you run to the 7-11, you have a colony on your hands by the time you return.
Where do these things come from? How did they get into my lovely home? I've never had bugs in the past! Am I really that much of a slob? More importantly, how do I kill them? I've thought about bug spray, but they seem so distrubted. It would be tough to get them all. Plus, I have a cat, and they hang around my dishes and living room. I dont want poison floating around my house. I need you help, please! The battle rages on, and it's me or them. I think they're winning.