¡viva la cucaracha!
In another small victory in the world's constant quest to kill me via heart attack, I looked down to find an overturned cockroach with its legs flailing at my feet this morning. The incident occurred as I got my coffee in the office kitchen. My reaction to those things is really quite bad, and usually involves me screaming obscenities up and down the corridor. I held it in this time, but I do think it ticked a couple of weeks off my life nevertheless.
I'm still grappling with how it got there. Had it run over top of my foot first, or otherwise somehow touched me? Did I kick it when I walked in? Was there any antennae-to-human-skin contact whatsoever? Did it fall out of someplace where food is stored?
A coworker crushed and removed it for me. I know they can't hurt me, but I just can't get over it. Sometimes I think about how lobsters and shrimp are sort of like scorpions and cockroaches and stuff, except they live in the water and we eat them, and it's really gross. I better stop this train of thought right here.
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"Sometimes I think about how lobsters and shrimp are sort of like scorpions and cockroaches and stuff, except they live in the water and we eat them, and it's really gross."
Mark this day on your calendars as the day Ginger went kosher ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_foods#Seafood:_11:9-12
the words "antennae-to-human-skin contact" is enough to make me want to puke. i can muster up sympathy or compassion for just about any other kind of bug (to the point of at least relocating them to the outside), yet the line is drawn for me with cockroaches. just....ugh. no love.
Guess it's a good thing you never had to work at a meat packing plant. You would've spent a lot of time screaming.
UGH! I had read somewhere that they lay their little eggs and those eggs can get on your shoes and hatch in other places...this idea strikes me as so simultaneously pervasive and malicious, that I can't get over it sometimes. But...wipe your shoes,for real. Who knows. Ugh.
Yummmmm........... >:)
¡vivan las pelirrojas!(¡Gingers rules!)
Well Cockroaches or cucarachas(in spanish) are more dangerous than you think, despite they can not bite you.