Stay tuned for a follow-up interview with the Bug Lady. I'm going to try to get her on the phone now, and I tried last night, but she didn't have her phone on for some reason or other. I've talked to her, and I think she can talk to us tonight, so everybody stand by. Well, this is Buster Jack.
I'm trying to help the Bug Lady. Well, how you're about to Jack? This is she? Okay.
Well, I want to do a follow-up call with you. I haven't talked to you in a good while. And I wanted to start out with, of course, last time we talked about where you got your name and where you worked. And so I wanted to know if you could tell me maybe what it's like during a regular day, what you do, what time do you get up, what time do you go to work, and what particular problems have you faced from day to day, anything that you can tell us along those lines, I think our listeners would be interested.
Okay. Well, a typical day, Buster Jack. I get up at 5 a.m. and I'm out of the house by, oh, usually between 6.15 to 6.30, head to the office.
I have to turn in my paperwork from the day before pick up any paperwork that I need. Fill my tanks up, get the water, make sure I've got the right chemical for that day. And then usually I am at my first stop by 7.30 in the morning, and I got home today. It was about 10 minutes to 6.
So that's pretty much a typical day. And, of course, you know, some days you have to, during the day, you know, besides just working, you have phone calls to return and, you know, check with someone calls in for an issue for a problem. You'll stop and try to return your phone call. Of course, all of our people have to have an appointment schedule.
So there are some nights that I come home and have to get on the phone for another hour or so to schedule up work, but people are easier to reach nowadays during the day than they are actually at night. So sometimes I can stop in the middle of the day for 30 minutes or an hour and make my phone calls. Now you mentioned that you picked up the chemicals that you would use on a given day. Do the chemicals that you use vary from day to day?
Well, they vary from what you're trying to kill. There's, you know, someone who's having a lot of trouble with answers, a chemical that works better for an an another. Roches, different types of roaches take different types of chemical depending on what kind they are. This time of year, you're going to have a lot of issues with spiders and spiders are hard to kill.
And so you have to, you know, use something different usually for them, then you will, you know, it all is from experience. You find out how long, you know, you know what works best on what particular type of pest. So do you know what pests certain individuals are having problems with? Or do you just bring a variety of chemicals out there to take care of what problem you buy?
Oh, no, I have a variety with me. I make sure that I've got an assortment just depending on what I run into. Now, have you had any real interesting experiences unusual experiences with pests or rodents or anything since I talked to you last? Well, let's see.
I had to kill a rat the other day. It was out of business and the business is, it gets hot. It gets hot in there. So they leave the doors open so they can get some airflow.
And I went out to check one of our bait boxes that I had put around the outside and there was a rat in there looking at me when I opened the box. And I figured he was probably sick because he was in there in the bait box, but still I didn't walk in there back door and dine on their floor. So I decided I better kill it before I left. And that was an interesting thing.
I opened the box and he stuck his head out and I slammed the box on his head. You did one. Well, when I opened the box, he tried to get away and he stuck his head out and I slammed the lid of the box on his head. And then I got one of our glue boards.
I told you about glue boards last time I talked to you. I got one of my glue boards and I stuck it on his face and then opened the box back and I had him caught by his head. I put another glue board on top of him and made a rat sandwich between the sandwich. Made the sandwich out of the rat sandwich.
Yeah, made a rat sandwich out of the glue boards between the rat and the glue boards and then squashed him. Oh my gosh. That's a painful way to die. You know what?
Well, it probably was. But as I said, he had already I think he'd already gotten into the poison. So I don't think it was any harder than what it would have been. I mean, he was going to die from poisoning or he was going to get, you know, I actually killed him faster.
So might have been a little bit more humane the way I did it. Did he make any sound? Yeah, but you don't want to know what kind of noise it is. It's not pleasant.
No, you don't like hearing him squealing. Now, how big a rat was he? He pretty just size rat, Buster. I would imagine he weighed at least probably pound pound and half.
Oh my goodness. Now, where was it? Can you tell me where it was or is that? Well, it was it was just out of business.
I probably ought not to tell where it was. Don't want to upset the people that only it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. There's been a lot of there's been a lot of rat calls in that neighborhood. So they weren't the only folks that have them.
Oh my gosh, I've got a a restaurant, a very small sandwich restaurant and we caught or I caught. Oh, golly, I caught probably 15 rats and they are over three or four month period. Until they finally got someone in and closed all the holes up. It was an old building and it wasn't a way to keep them out.
And we were just catching them going and coming. Any other experiences that you think our listeners would be interested in hearing about? Oh, I know a story and it was the funniest story I've ever heard. A lady told me about an instance she had, but it was a number of years ago and I can't do it justice, but just suffice to say that she caught a raccoon in her house and it was in the middle of the night when the raccoon got in.
She had to call the police and the police laughed at her from what I was told and she tried to call. She made a study with the wildlife control people and she couldn't get anyone. And she finally got hold of a pest person who came out in the middle of the night to catch the raccoon. And he did catch it.
He caught it with his bare hands from what she told me. And the funny part was that the man was holding the raccoon and complimenting on the size of him. The raccoon was peeing all over her carpet. Oh, raccoons?
Are they dangerous? Are they are they are they vicious animals? Oh, absolutely. If you get one back up in a corner, they are mean.
I understand that. I mean, I know folks that used to go coon hunting and I've heard that a raccoon will kill a dog. I don't know, but that's what I've heard. And, but yeah, they're mean.
If you get hold of one and he's still alive, no, it's not a pleasant. It's not something I want to do. Have you ever dealt with a raccoon before? No, no, that considered wildlife.
That's considered wildlife. We don't we don't kill raccoons or possums or chipmunks or bats. I've had bats that you know there are a lot of bats around our town and so we don't kill anything like that's considered wildlife. I didn't have a lady this morning.
No, I could kill some woodpeckers because they were destroying other columns on her house. I don't do woodpeckers either. So what do you do if you have those kind of problems of wildlife problems? There's another there's other companies that you'll have to call there's urban wildlife control people.
They will come out and try to catch it or you know, which I guess is how they do it. Someone will come out and try to catch the thing in a trap. Well, somebody told me that a coon about one more time after his dad. Is that true?
I don't know, but I've heard that. Yes, I've heard that same thing myself. Sounds like something my dad would say. Yeah, it does kind of sound like him.
Well, I'm not going to keep you. I will be calling you from time to time to check in on you and because you know, our listeners don't know much about that type of that type of problem. Everybody has a pest contract, but generally we just sit in the living room and let the pest and people kill him, you know, and we don't. The technicians take care of it?
Yep. That's probably the best thing to do. That's what we do, but it's interesting to hear about and so I'll be calling you from time to time and I would appreciate it if you would just sort of, you know, keep a log or just kind of make a note of any unusual problems that you deal with from time to time so you can report. Next time I call you.
All right, I have an instance of number of years ago where I had a snake. Actually, I think he was a watermark was in one of our big rat traps and now that I was a lot younger than in a lot more limber and I did some fast move and get away from that snake because I don't do snakes. There's only thing that I don't like. I don't like rodents and that sort of stuff, but I guess it's naked.
The only thing I'm scared of and I don't do snakes. You got snake you need to call somebody else. Snakes a while. I too.
There you go. That's what I think. Snakes a while. I don't do snakes.
I don't blame you. I wouldn't do it either. But ladies, it is so nice talking to you and I really appreciate your sharing your knowledge with us and I know our listeners do too. Well, you're very welcome.
That's Jack. You can call anytime. Okay, you take care and as I say, make notes on what you do and we'll be calling you another week to go and check and see how you do it. I'll be here.
Just give me a holler. Thank you, but Jack. All right. Thank you.
You're welcome.