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So yeah, the tale of the huge ass cockroach I killed.
My poor roommates and RA seem to be deathly afraid of roaches, not that I'd blame them, but living in the city has numbed my fear of most creepy crawlies. I was in the kitchen at the time when one of my roommates comes up to me. Now the kitchen is on the 6th floor; we're on the bottom levels. Anyway, she tells me about the roach in our room. I go down with her because, one, I know what to do in these situations, and two, she was pretty freaked out.
And there it sat. Just relaxing on our ceiling.
Needless to say, I whacked it with a broom then crushed it with my shoe after I found it under my couch. No big deal.
Everyone else didn't think so.
In retrospect, it could have been one of those hissing ones or something. But it didn't make any noise so...*laughs nervously*
But to tell you the truth, bugs don't creep me out much. Except, walking sticks. Those things are kinda scary.
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My poor roommates and RA seem to be deathly afraid of roaches, not that I'd blame them, but living in the city has numbed my fear of most creepy crawlies. I was in the kitchen at the time when one of my roommates comes up to me. Now the kitchen is on the 6th floor; we're on the bottom levels. Anyway, she tells me about the roach in our room. I go down with her because, one, I know what to do in these situations, and two, she was pretty freaked out.
And there it sat. Just relaxing on our ceiling.
Needless to say, I whacked it with a broom then crushed it with my shoe after I found it under my couch. No big deal.
Everyone else didn't think so.
In retrospect, it could have been one of those hissing ones or something. But it didn't make any noise so...*laughs nervously*
But to tell you the truth, bugs don't creep me out much. Except, walking sticks. Those things are kinda scary.
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You know, when I was in Kentucky last summer we coined the phase "giant quiet crickets" so Alex wouldn't totally freak out because of all the roaches on the sidewalks at night.
THAT was scary!
And we had to walk the dogs because we had no yard so we were out on the city street probably two or three times after it got dark and they were out. There were so many we stepped on them by accident. There was no avoiding them.
It was... icky to say the least.
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Beh, when I walked into my English tute about a week ago everyone (and they're all girls) were up on tables screaming there was a cockroach running around. "It's huuuge!" they cried. I puffed out my manly chest and said in my deepest voice, "What ladies, it's only a cockroach, I'll get it for you." And then I saw it scuttling around the table legs and said in a little less deep voice, "Oh that...is rather big isn't it?" So then I just hopped from one foot to the other waiting for the tutor to come. He came, the others shrieked the story to him, and he let it climb his foot and walked it outside. Like a dog!...that climbs on other people's feet.
The end!! (your story was better :P)
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Strangely, I've gotten the "OMG! You're needed!" call... and it's been for a pigeon. Pigeons is scary, I guess....?
Roaches is just annoying. Then again, I did keep an emperor scorpion as a pet. And did breed mealworms and crickets for a short bit.
Roaches are also quiet. Unlike crickets. Who can and will escape pet enclosures. They have reservations about being food, apparently...
I'm sure there was a point to this... but I don't know what it was....