I mean, you get ""em all stirred up, and what""s the good? Now you made a mess.You gotta think about other people, you know.Well, I mean, look, look, I don""t like to complain, but, I mean, this is ridiculous.They don""t bother anybody.They don""t destroy anything.You know hey""re there.You leave ""em alone, they leave you alone.You lock up what you don""t want crawled over, and that""s that.But all of a sudden, you start spraying that stuff on the walls, and look at the mess.When they duck away into her apartment to escape the chaos among the other tenants in the stairway, Kirsten laughs and jokes with Joe - with a warning: "You""ve undermined the whole base of metabolism of the building" and that the cockroaches would track him down: "You""ll be a goner!"While drinking one night together by the SF Bay, Kirsten ells boozing Joe about a dream she had of being murdered, and the fact that her father was very private and uncommunicative during her upbringing.]Ben is the pride of his wealthy Southern California suburbanite parents who have prepared a welcome, home-coming cocktail party for their recent graduate and invited all of their friends, rather than his, to the party.He adored New York City.He idolized it all out of proportion."" Uh, no, make that: ""He-he romanticized it all out of proportion."" Better.""To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.He had been supported by US money and advisors only a few years earlier to fight against Communist insurgents, with illegally supplied weapons despite a Congressional ban.