re: #4 reine.de.tout

*gag* is right.

My daughter screams a piercing scream of bloody murder when she sees a roach - scares me to death. And of course the Roi is always out of town when this happens, so guess who gets to take care of things? ewww.

I’m with your daughter. I hate ‘em. They’re the worst bugs EVER. *shudder*

The small ones are bad and make me gag just looking at ‘em, but…

My typical reaction on encountering one of the ginormous flying ones was to scream, grab the nearest item that could be used as a lethal projectile—’cause no way was I getting close enough that it might get on me—then fire at it as I ran for the door. Then I’d slam the door shut and jam towels underneath, hoping that it wouldn’t be able to squeeze through any cracks and escape before someone could come kill it.

I’d spend the next 30 minutes or so trying to get my breathing & pulse back to a reasonable level, shuddering & gagging as I did so and imagining that everything that brushed up against me was IT . I’d be on pins & needles for the rest of the night (it was always at night), or until I had proof it had been assassinated. One more reason you’ll never catch me down south again.