Nah, Alan knows he'd be a dead husband if he did that to me. It's not his thing.

He didn't have his glasses on at first and he thought it was some left over bowel movement thing. He put on his glasses and yelled Holy cow, and that's when I came running.

I just want to know if it's possible for a waterbug (to be that dead mind you), to come from where-ever the water comes from when, after you flush it, well, it has to go though a pipe right?

Perhaps along this pipe, or inside the pipe, this grandfather of all creatures was swept back into my bowl.

See, I don't know how waterbugs get into the house. i heard that they travel in pipes, in drains.

I've sprayed inside my bathroom cabinets and I never keep any stuff in there. I've plugged up the over flow valve, I cover the bathtub drain.

Now dont' laugh, but during the summer, I march over to the radiators at night and I take my flashlight and Alan goes "there she goes, on Ant Patrol".

I do this because we used to have an ant problem (not a load of them, but 3 are to many for me ). I went into my basement where the two 82 year old people live, and right underneath my living room radiator, in their basement, well, it's a unfinished rock wall, so I went into that room where they store their bins and stuff and I used my bug stray (with a long nozzle and I sprayed into the cracks. I also went into MY RADIATOR and sprayed downward. I figured, I'll get them coming and going and poison the whole wall.

Well, it seemed to do the trick. it worked the whole summer. Maybe one or two strays but basically my method worked.

But there isn't anything worse than seeing a waterbug (a huge one), floating dead in the toilet bowl. This was the first time.

I just wonder how it got there. And believe me it was deader than a doornail.

I told Alan, better you than me finding it because you would have hear me screaming to high heaven.

I DON'T LIKE BUGS. Obviously lol

And some of you people are bug experts. You know LOTS OF STUFF.

I like to pick your brains.

Melody

P.S. just so you know how bad I am about bugs, I used to watch an Orkin Commercial where they had the big roach crawling along the tv. I almost jumped and sprayed my tv set. And Alan was watching tv one time, not knowing what Orkin did in their commercial.

He ran into the other room shouting "there's a big roach on the tv". I knew it ws the Orkin commercial and said "Relax, it's Orkin".

Thank god, they stopped running that commercial.

mel