“I obviously think you’re wrong. How many women do you know that deal with bugs or mice/rats when they are indoors? Or do they scream -stand on chairs -and call for a man to deal with it?!?!”
Personally, I don’t care about mice or rats (what is scary about them?), but I have a huge insect phobia. So in E”Y, before I got married (when I was living alone), when I had roaches in the house a couple of times I managed to kill them on my own, being completely terrified. Killed them by using tons of insect spray (that STINKS) and drowning them in soap (much better but doesn’t always work for them).
Then, I always had to go out and find a neighbor to help me get rid of it. I cannot touch anything like that in any way, so if one got stuck somewhere where it would be impossible to remove it without lifting it up (once, for example, I had one killed in the sink) I had to get someone to help me. Can’t do it even using 30 layers of kitchen paper or anything like that.
Guess who came to my rescue…. the neighbor’s 12-year old daughter.
Nowadays I have my wife to take care of such things, if they should ever happen again. But we also have 3 cats, even better. Ever since the first cat joined the household, we never again suffered any trouble.