I saw my first roach ever in SC. It was at least 2 inches long and I'm not exagerating. Then it disappeared in my room. I spent the whole night freaked out it would climb in my bed.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Stephanie - Apr 27, 2005 11:57:12 am PDT #9416 of 10001
Trust my rage
ChiKat - Apr 27, 2005 11:57:38 am PDT #9417 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I remember the day after I moved into my apartment for grad school (in Alabama). A huge roach flew across my living room and I about fainted dead away. When I say huge, I mean the body was probably 3 inches long and had a wing span of 5 inches. I completely freaked.
Some guy was moving in to an apt. on the floor below me the same day I did, so I knew he was there. I ran down to his apt. and explained this humongous flying roach and pleaded for him to come kill it. He laughed and told me it was a palmetto bug. Being the nice boy that he was, he came up, killed the critter and disposed of the carcass.
A few days later, he was in my first class. Turned out he was a theatre major, too.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2005 11:57:47 am PDT #9418 of 10001
What is even happening?
Because they fly and they have bodies. Ergo they do not belong in my apartment. I love when they fly right into my lamp, though. Solves that problem quite satisfyingly.
This is right thinking, although I have never had a moth die by flying into one of my lamps. They just do the bounce of thing that makes me wish I could kill them more than once.
Amy - Apr 27, 2005 11:58:50 am PDT #9419 of 10001
Because books.
It is so very much spider-hatching season here. They're everywhere all of a sudden. Blech.
And we had what they blithely refer to as "palmetto bugs" (roaches with wings, folks) in Florida. Horrible, horrible things.
I would never kill a lady bug. Spiders now...I can't get used to the idea of coexisting, although I know that everything JZ said about them is true.
It's only gross if it was last night's tea.
Whistling innocently...
Gus - Apr 27, 2005 11:59:09 am PDT #9420 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
t oh, cool, the ickies have lost a few legs. scampers out.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 27, 2005 11:59:28 am PDT #9421 of 10001
What is even happening?
Fails to mention how she knows it is gross
sarameg - Apr 27, 2005 11:59:39 am PDT #9422 of 10001
But the fluttering of its wings down my back (long nightdress) will stay with me forever, I fear.
Up.my.skirt. And it was the 3 inch long crunchy crawly kind.
Needless to say, I was shortly standing deskirted in the middle of my dad's office, stomping on said skirt. The office also happened to be facing the university library front entrance and yes, it was between classes. I really don't like roaches.
-t - Apr 27, 2005 12:00:14 pm PDT #9423 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ladybugs bite.
brenda m - Apr 27, 2005 12:00:48 pm PDT #9424 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It's not rappelling spiders, nor spiders in tea. But the fluttering of its wings down my back (long nightdress) will stay with me forever, I fear.
Ye gods. shuuuudder
Steph L. - Apr 27, 2005 12:00:56 pm PDT #9425 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
STOP TALKING ABOUT BUGS, SPIDERS, INSECTS, ETC. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!