OK....lets talk about BBBIIIGGGG roaches! My husband and I lived in Miami for five years. One night we noticed that someone in our apartment complex had put a real nice table out by the dumpster. Being poor college students, with only a card table, out eyes lit up when we saw it. Looked pretty good in the dark. We carried it to the elevator and got in (we lived on the fourth floor). This elevator was one of those old dinky ones, fits only about 3-4 people. We barely squeezed in with the two of us and the table. Well, the elevator of course was well lit, and as soon as the doors shut on us we noticed that the underside of the table seemed to be alive. Thousands...I'm talking THOUSANDS of roaches on that sucker (for all I know, Betty, the bones of that husband you mentioned were underneath them). You have never seen two more creeped out college kids. And we were stuck in there with all the roaches!!!! Makes me queasy just to remember it. When we got to the fourth floor we ran out and dragged the table out to the hallway. We thought about what to do....well, it WAS a free table.....and we WERE broke and dumb. So.....we ran it fast as we could through one room of our two room apt to the balconey and RAIDed the bejeezus out of it. Then shut the balconey door tight! Next day, we swept the roaches off.....cleaned it up.....refinished it.....and it's still a member of the family. It's way too cool.....has sides that fold down and claw feet. I just try not to remember how we found it............. Barb