Thursday, February 14, 2008

The fear of flying roaches

I know that people are leery of having roaches next to them, and with good reason. Diseases aside, I have an adverse reaction to any crawling roach I see, and that makes me want to kill it. However, flying roaches have the higher rating on my creep chart. The trouble with them is that you never know what they'll do next. Worse still, you'd hardly be able to control the direction of their flight, and they just might decide to land on you. It's really difficult to turn your head all over the place when a roach is on the ceiling, ready to fall onto your foamy hair. I've never had a peaceful time in the loo with a roach around-- especially an active one. The worst situation, though, would be one wherein a roach is roaming round the room and you've fallen asleep with a bag of food nearby. The result would be a painful sore or a swollen eye, useful for meriting taunts, jeers, and concerned inquiries. Whatever purpose they were intended for, coackroaches are agents of evil, embarrassment, and illness; but an elusive , freely locomoting roach is the worst specimen.

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