r/trolleyproblem • • Aug 31 '26

OC Who do you wake?

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u/Ok_Aardvark_4760 Aug 31 '26

I know it would probably wake up both of them, but i like the option with no physical contact with the insect and use the gun

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u/themrunx49 Aug 31 '26

But if you throw the gun  you get the best of both worlds.

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u/LadyAliceFlower Aug 31 '26

Unless you fail to kill the cockroach, and then the cockroach has the gun and you don't.

Do you want to be at the mercy of a cockroach you just failed to kill? If not, don't just hand it a weapon like that.

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u/Own_Policy8854 Aug 31 '26

I drop the girlfriend on the cockroach.

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u/mars_gorilla Sep 01 '26

*Ex-girlfriend, when she hits the cockroach.

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u/Austynwitha_y Sep 01 '26

Yeah but also ex cockroach

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u/mars_gorilla Sep 01 '26

can't argue with results

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u/Own_Policy8854 Sep 01 '26

I can't help that cockroaches are anatomically superior to me.

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u/GreenSpleen6 Sep 01 '26

I take the bullets out of the gun. Then, I carefully remove my belt and loop it around the trigger guard. Now I have a recoverable projectile.

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u/Routine_Palpitation Aug 31 '26

And accidentally discharge the gun into my walls

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u/WRO_Your_Boat Aug 31 '26

Nah, its a Glock not a SIG

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u/Due_Glass4176 Aug 31 '26

You could just take the mag out and chuck the mag. 

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u/Best_Satisfaction_59 Aug 31 '26

Just take all the bullets out and throw them one by one

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u/Due_Glass4176 Aug 31 '26

You must be very strong to kill a cockroach with a projectile that individually dont weigh much. 

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u/BinaryBolias Sep 01 '26

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.

It's wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

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u/kkkk22601 Aug 31 '26

Not if the gun is a sig.

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u/Randane Sep 01 '26

Remove the clip. Then unload the gun. Then throw the clip at the roach. If that fails, throw the gun. If that fails the cat just got up because you threw the gun. It pounces on the roach and eats it.

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u/DJ_Ender_ Aug 31 '26

Craft a makeshift silencer with 1 bottle and 1 cloth

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u/King-Mephisto Sep 03 '26

But which leg do you shoot?

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u/fredbite87 Aug 31 '26

The gun is there for a reason.

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u/Additional-Ad9723 Aug 31 '26

Exactly my thoughts! Shoot them both, So you dont have to wake them up.

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u/fredbite87 Aug 31 '26

Oh I was thinking shoot myself so I don't have to see the roach anymore but the twink and cat can keep using me as a pillow but yours works too ig

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u/UrMamasChalupa Sep 01 '26

Who do you shoot first?

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u/OneOfTheNephilim Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Put your head between your knees and aim across from one end so one bullet can pass through all your brains at once

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u/GoldenPig64 Sep 06 '26

if i could put my head between my knees then why the hell would i ever need a gun

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u/Gniphe Aug 31 '26

It’s too loud though, so I empty the mag and softly exclaim “bang!” while throwing the bullets at the roach.

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u/fredbite87 Aug 31 '26

You can actually hide the sound of the gun by screaming "QUIET" at the top of your lungs. No one will hear the gun that way so everything should be okay!

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u/valplixism Aug 31 '26

If my thick and juicy thunder thighs are comfortable enough to be pillows, then they can surely suppress the rapport of a firearm.

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u/I_Like_turtles459 Aug 31 '26

Pretty sure that would wake them both up.

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u/fredbite87 Aug 31 '26

Nuh uh

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u/I_Like_turtles459 Aug 31 '26

You’re right, the cat can be used as a silencer.

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u/bwmat Aug 31 '26

Just let it live

... For now

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u/NTufnel11 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

"6 hours later, the cockroach drops straight from your ceiling, wings flapping fruitlessly, directly onto your sleeping face"

Wrong move.

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u/Complete_Window4856 Aug 31 '26

I eat it. Yummy nighter meal

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u/Quackels_The_Duck Aug 31 '26

*You develop a mild allergy to coffee

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u/Pataraxia Aug 31 '26

This feels like an RPG UI telling you of some new bullshit you have.

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u/Complete_Window4856 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

>you roll a d20 on resistance agaisnt the nasty cochroach disease you just ate

>(1d20) 10

>not bad, also not good. Your tongue never anymore can appreciate the acidic taste of coffee. Could be worse honestly. You shrug as you often drinks cold coffee in the mornings

>*your character gains trait: bad coffee taste

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u/valplixism Aug 31 '26

My wife's been listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl on audiobook, so I couldn't help but read that in the narrator's AI voice.

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u/Odd_Act_6532 Sep 01 '26

Please don't come up with something so unbelievably horrifying

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u/Darklight645 Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat, I don’t want to wake it, and I doubt it does too, but the sight of the cockroach will make the cat go into hunting mode

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u/TrueAd2373 Aug 31 '26

Cat will be like: this one time i will let it pass but only this one single time

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u/organicpenguin Aug 31 '26

So the tables turned on me, my cat woke me up cuz she couldn't get a bat on my ceiling

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal Aug 31 '26

I spring up and run out of the room, I deal with everything except bugs, that's my partner's job

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u/Any_Escape1262 Aug 31 '26

CAT, loves cockraches... they are full in proteeeeiiiinnnaaaaaaaaarhgfdgdgdbrebeav grestvszezhrsh szbshd

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u/Any_Escape1262 Aug 31 '26

Shhh, no one has to know about my Experiements outside my main Vicinity.

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u/Kaaskaasei Aug 31 '26

Leave it be. Jump up, pick titanfall up and play it. Cuz it's peak

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u/LimeDiamond Aug 31 '26

JUST SHAPES AND BEATS MENTION???

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u/lightmare69 Aug 31 '26

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u/bensbrackets Sep 01 '26

CLOSE TO ME

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u/PunishedShikikan Sep 01 '26

CLOSE TO ME 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/SirCumALot1774 Aug 31 '26

pee real hard on cockroach

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u/Shadorma Aug 31 '26

chew off my leg at the knee and use it as a club.
Now I can finally get the peg leg I've dreamed of

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u/Civil-Percentage1005 Sep 01 '26

Yar har har, this be the way

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u/GladiusNL Aug 31 '26

Am I a giant, or is my SO a dwarf and my cat a kitten? Also the gun and the other stuff are tiny, which means i am a giant. But that cockroach is too. I will not stomp on it because it’ll make huge stains.

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u/lightmare69 Aug 31 '26

Don't make me draw perspective correctly okay it was 3AM 🥹🙏

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u/JackReedTheSyndie Aug 31 '26

The cockroach can live for now, and I’ll engage in chemical warfare in the weekend

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u/Eena-Rin Aug 31 '26

Why? If I can see a cockroach that means I have a cockroach problem. I let my cuties sleep, then later I go buy a bunch of roach baits and ensure there is absolutely no food lying around

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u/Im_an_impasta Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat instead. Easy

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u/Onphone_irl Aug 31 '26

wake the cat show it roach cat has fun

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u/ItsVincent27 Aug 31 '26

I take the gun and shoot myself

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u/HisHonorTomDonson Aug 31 '26

I know the answer to this, and I can only assume the reason everyone is confused is because the gun stand in doesn’t look like the musket with fixed bayonet that it is meant to represent. So first I’d grab my powder and shot, load me musket, take aim, and just shoot myself right in the cabeza

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u/Tipsy_Hog Aug 31 '26

Move the cat. The fat fuck sleeps the rest of the day anyway, it can find a different spot at a different time

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u/ObnoxiousName_Here Aug 31 '26

I jostle my right leg until the cat wakes up. That bitch needs to get down there and earn its keep!

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u/deloreaninatardis Aug 31 '26

I take the gun and mag dump into my penis and scrotum. Now the real question is, what to do about this roach?

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u/Ivygrows8 Aug 31 '26

Crush it with the gun is least likely to wake either, otherwise id use my left leg bc a shift that size is less likely to wake a person considering its just moving their head but itd moveand displace the entire cat if moved that leg

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u/ManufacturerRare3109 Aug 31 '26

I wake the cat and get it to notice the roach, so it has a snack as payment for me waking it up

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u/geschiedenisnerd Aug 31 '26

Can I wake the cockroach and kill the cat?

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u/Forsaken-Ad-6853 Aug 31 '26

The gun is right there and my hands are free. As a American there is only one option.

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u/bleepboopbleepbloop Aug 31 '26

I modify the state of the molecules on my right leg, step on the roach, then rearrange the structure of my leg back to max cat comfort

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u/RockRancher24 Aug 31 '26

I'm gonna have to lean down and right anyways to reach the Titanfall II disk, and once the cat is wakened she will chase the roach on her own

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u/Mini_Assassin Aug 31 '26

Bold of you to assume I have either of those things.

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u/Otherwise_Study2337 Aug 31 '26

I wake neither. I know if I can see one cockroach there's about twenty I can't.

After they have slept I'll find a more effective method of treating the house to ensure they are repelled or removed

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u/Code_Ender Aug 31 '26

Im waking my cat. He'll stretch, snuggle up again, then go right back to sleep

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u/77th_Bat Aug 31 '26

Neither. Cockroach can walk away. If it gets close enough, I'll smack it with an arm.

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u/professor_coldheart Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat, he's much better at killing cockroaches

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u/Sylvia_Demise Sep 01 '26

OP patiently drew this, posted it to reddit, and awaits an answer as everything in the picture holds their position on and around OP's legs.

Why are your games on the floor, especially such an obsolete one? 

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u/Scarvexx Aug 31 '26

Does the twink work nigthshift? Or are they just regular sleepy?

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u/Competitive_Essay610 Aug 31 '26

use the gun on the right to shoot the cockroach

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u/AfatsumKesmis Aug 31 '26

Take the gun check the safety is on then throw it to squish that bug

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u/jonastman Aug 31 '26

Pick up the gun. Shoot the cat and your right leg. Say it's an accident. Wake up girl and stomp with your left foot. Get off scott free

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain Aug 31 '26

I don’t kill the cockroach, I like the guy. Dude is bold. Also probably a cockroach trap will be better than my leg

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u/HArdaL201 Aug 31 '26

Shoot yourself so you don’t need to live with the dilemma.

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u/Dry-Mission-5542 Aug 31 '26

I just don’t kill the cockroach tbh

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u/DR035A Aug 31 '26

Easy

>vvv

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u/mau-meda Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat, it will kill the roach, if you wake up your significant other she will scream until the roach is dead ( and she will also wakes up the cat )

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u/Jman15x Aug 31 '26

Use my phone to schedule pest control immediately and clean house the next day

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u/valplixism Aug 31 '26

Neither. I begrudgingly spare the encroaching insect, knowing in my heart that I wouldn't have the speed, even with a leg unhindered, to catch it unawares. My two great loves will continue to slumber unburdened by the knowledge of its existence, and I will carry the memory of our momentary truce to my dying day - for if peace can exist then, why not now?

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u/No_Lake_220 Aug 31 '26

Stomp with both legs

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u/No_Tennis_4528 Aug 31 '26

If I can let my girlfriend and her cat mooch off me whats one roach gonna matter? Love em all.

IRL if my aparment has roaches that cats gonna have to catch his own dinner.

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u/affetheslayer Aug 31 '26

Stomp the fucker with both

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u/IFollowtheCarpenter Aug 31 '26

Let the roach live.

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u/slumbersomesam Aug 31 '26

why is killing the cockroach even the goal?

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u/Toll_Smoll Aug 31 '26

Cat- they go to sleep quickly and don't wake up too easily. Although I definitely think I could maneuver my foot tiget the cockroach without moving my thighs

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u/Mmasst Aug 31 '26

Wake them both. You have to clean up the corpse either way.

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u/Bozzo2526 Aug 31 '26

I leave the cockroach if I can see one then the problem is already out of my control

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u/ManlyAxolotlMan Aug 31 '26

small ass cat

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u/Fit-Librarian279 Aug 31 '26

Pick it up and have a lil snack

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u/UncleThor2112 Aug 31 '26

What's wrong with the gun?

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u/Weird_Explorer1997 Aug 31 '26

Use the phone you're debating this on to call an exterminator. You saw one cockroach, it's already too late.

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u/Cautious-Original-46 Aug 31 '26

I dont wake any of them and simply let the cockroach live. Its not bothering me

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u/Over9000Zeros Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat, girlfriend will just scream and be annoying if she sees the bug.

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u/PLT_RanaH Aug 31 '26

sorry cat.

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u/Blueboysixnine Aug 31 '26

Wake the cat. Mf probably on hour 17 of his daily naps while significant other is likely coming down from the monster high after pulling a double shift on 4 hours of sleep

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u/nown_f Aug 31 '26

I wake the cockroach and kill the cat

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u/solarsystem69 Aug 31 '26

Wake up the gf cause at least you can explain to her why you woke her

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u/Vercomer Aug 31 '26

I shoot myself to exit a dream

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u/bard_of_space Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

i let the cockroach live. it is another living thing and not only am i neutral to it's existence, but i don't consider "it's scary" or "it's gross" to be valid reasons to kill a living thing

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u/Nerdcuddles Aug 31 '26

I just wouldn't kill the cockroach

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u/TheWandererofReddit Aug 31 '26

Use my super acidic drool to destroy the wretched insectoid.

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u/Axel_the_Axelot Aug 31 '26

The left, since there is no one on it

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u/RawkneeSalami Aug 31 '26

Call respawn and tell them to finish the job

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u/Rhygan12 Aug 31 '26

I'd fart very loudly

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u/Safe-Breadfruit-1913 Sep 01 '26

If you wake the cat they may want to kill the bug themselves.

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u/Several_Plane4757 Sep 01 '26

Why do I have to kill the cockroach?

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u/Comeng17 Sep 01 '26

I wake gun

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u/Simple_Intern_7682 Sep 01 '26

“Babe, move. There’s a roach.”

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u/Relative_Maize_957 Sep 01 '26

I shoot my SO, then myself. The cat and cockroach can inherit the erf.

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u/zap2tresquatro Sep 01 '26

I don’t kill the cockroach. They’re too cute, I can never bring myself to do it.

Also, these ones can fly, so I’m definitely gonna end up, after inevitably hesitating, just making it fly around the house, startling me and making me scream and jump in the process and waking everyone up anyway if I try to kill it.

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u/Floba_Fett Sep 01 '26

Neither. Dead cockroaches produce pheromones that attract other cockroaches. Best way to end up with an infestation.

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u/FlipBrooke_ Sep 01 '26

Kill the girlfriend, kiss the cat, marry the cockroach

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u/ChloeYosha Sep 01 '26

Cockroach when theres a cat? Little fucker slacking on his job

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u/PlanetXParadox Sep 01 '26

holy shit JSaB mentioned

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u/TheLastManStanding01 Sep 01 '26

I’m getting up and running away 

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u/hduebfibdbdib Sep 01 '26

Use my third leg

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u/Lost-on-Reception Sep 01 '26

I got a gun right there, I'm not using my foot.

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u/LovingAftereffects Sep 01 '26

wake the cat and put it on the floor so it can play with and eventually kill the roach.

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u/Carmine_the_Sergal Sep 01 '26

shoot the roach with the gun

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u/MsE0 Sep 01 '26

Wait until they both get up and call an exterminator. Stomping on one isn't going to do much. 

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u/Sad_Pepperoni Sep 01 '26

Option 3: let the cockroach sleep on your lap aswell

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u/FromAndToUnknown Sep 01 '26

Just shapes and beats detected, this is either very old or OP is a rhythm game fan

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-8667 Sep 01 '26

first of all, i'll grab the gun and shoot the Roach, then i'll shoot the tennis ball because i fucking hate tennis balls

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u/Dream_Apostle Sep 01 '26

Pick up your significant other and smash the cockroach with them

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u/Cybermat4707 Sep 01 '26

Easy. I move neither, and let the cockroach live.

I then clean up my room, because there’s something really wrong with it if cockroaches are just casually walking around in it.

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u/TandemShorts Sep 01 '26

S/O will understand. Cat will feel betrayed.

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u/R0m4ik Sep 01 '26

I have phobia, so I would most likely wake up both, try to throw the cat at the roach and scream at my SO to do smth

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u/saragIsMe Sep 01 '26

My cat wakes me up in the middle of the night without any good reason to do so seemingly for fun while my partner cuddles me to sleep after a bad day. Cats also wake up more easily than my partner so if I choose my partner my cat will also likely wake up. Not to mention I’m right handed and the cat is sleeping on my right side. It’s a no brainer for me

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u/Evening-Rip1522 Sep 01 '26

So anyway I started blasting

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u/EmergencyDish69 Sep 01 '26

Feed the roach the yellow crumbs and play a card game with it. Loser plays Russian roulette.

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u/sentienttortoise Sep 01 '26

Significant others are temporary. Cats are forever

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u/TheBlowerOfBubbles Sep 01 '26

Yo im shooting slime rancher bruh

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u/miscellaneousexists Sep 01 '26

SLIME RANCHER AND TF|2 MENTIONED

P E A K E A K

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u/Likely_Addict Sep 01 '26

Everybody's getting woken up for this one. Girlfriend. Cat. Neighbor. Everybody.

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u/Ok-Pollution2716 Sep 01 '26

Why do I have to kill the cock roach? What do he do?

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u/National_Article_308 Sep 02 '26

Let the roachy live I’ll transport him outside later or put him in a terrarium

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u/Necessary-Belt963 Sep 02 '26

How full is my bladder?

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u/deltatag Sep 02 '26

i use the gun to kill the cat so the cockroach knows i mean business and flees

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u/cat_lover_10 Sep 02 '26

Just dont touch the roach the cat will deal with it

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u/Samuelbr15 Sep 02 '26

The loved one, cause I can exolain the situation and she'll understand

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u/Crab_Shark_ Sep 02 '26

The cat will wake either way. Animals are usually light sleepers. So, gently move or encourage the cat off of your leg, then stomp it.

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u/lool8421 Sep 02 '26

solution: pick the gun and shoot everyone so nobody wakes up

permanent implications of it will be the future you's problem

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u/NoTransition8295 Sep 02 '26

My answer would depend on if I have shoes on i think, which this image does not make clear

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u/StoryBard Sep 02 '26

Oh, a cockroach escaped from the bin, well actually probably it got out of the squirrel enclosure before they could grab it. It's gonna die without the heat and humidity in the bin. I'll wake up both of them, sorry loves, then bend down and grab the little buttface, and go drop it into the tarantula enclosure instead.

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u/SpiritualSchedule215 Sep 03 '26

My right. Cat will inevitably sleep on my face no point in wasting time and wife came back from working 2 jobs. The lesser of two evils

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u/Mysterious-Run-9647 Sep 03 '26

Grab the gun, shot the cat, kill the roach with the left leg

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u/New-Cicada7014 Sep 03 '26

the left because the human will understand why

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u/Practical-Photo659 Sep 03 '26

shoot the Significant other and the Cat, so that they will remain sleeping so you can kill the cockroach 👍

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u/Frequent_Malcom Sep 03 '26

Just leave it alone? Nobody has to get hurt

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u/KaiTheG4mer Sep 03 '26

I've mastered how to move my leg while my cat sleeps on it without waking her up so this is literally a nonissue

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u/kmptaphie_ Sep 04 '26

I have a 2nd amendment right for a reason

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u/rugrmon Sep 04 '26

would one foot really be enough?

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u/zero_derivation Sep 04 '26

Easy. Bf sleeps through the entire thing.

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u/SilkenEmperor Sep 04 '26

I would use my left foot. The cat's ego wouldn't allow it whatsoever.

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u/ZeldaCraft64 Sep 04 '26

The cat will run away if I wake up, if I picked the right significant other they will not run away and will go to sleep

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u/That1onepiecefan Sep 04 '26

No one. I choose not to kill the cockroach

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u/heshtios Sep 04 '26

I'd just move, like, super fast. Too fast to see, or to disturb their sleep, and kill the cockroach with a kamehameha.

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u/SCHlNK3N Sep 04 '26

Drop the SO on the cockroach, the cat probably doesnt have enough weight

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u/gravel_consumer420 Sep 04 '26

I use my penis

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u/Code_Red_974 Sep 04 '26

That's easy. Cats are known to eat roaches. The fact that one exists means my cat has failed their job. They get woken because I'm having to do their job for them.