AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh - return of the bugs!

[catalyst2]

This morning, I picked up a CD from a friend who is late riser so last night I told her to put the CD in her letterbox and I would grab it from there rather than wake her up. I looked in her letter box and there's a dark plastic bag with there with my name on it so I grabbed it. I'm about 5 minutes down the road when I looked down at the bag and it's moving! I don't know why, but I decided to have slightly closer look so I opened the top of the bag and out come cockroaches - maybe half a dozen or more, who knows how many? Now I'm driving with the bag slightly open and I can see there's more roaches - lots more of them - still in the bag.

About this point, one of them finally figures that there's some fresh meat in the car - me - and runs up my trouser leg!

[viewpoint of passing motorist]car swerves violently to the side of the road - short fat middle-aged man leaps out - much squealing - vigorous jumping up and down - slapping at his left knee[/viewpoint of passing motorist]

I'm still not sure if I've got all the scurrying little bastards out of my car yet - I think I may be walking home tonight!

Comments

[ixzist.livejournal.com]

damn, dude, your friend is weeeeeeeeeird!

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

I have this vague suspicion that the cockroaches crawled into the bag after she put it in her letterbox. I don't think she put the cockroaches in there deliberately although, now that I think about it .....

[sanguinepen.livejournal.com]

That is so not cool.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

And with my history with insect incidents, I fully expected them to be flesh-eating roaches too!

[tijnat.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Did you ask her about them? We had cockroaches in our apartment building a few years ago - I had to go into my kitchen each morning with a paper towel ready when I turned on the light to see how many I could grab before they scurried out of the light.

I hope you got them all out of your car.

Hmmm, first spiders, now cockroaches - you seem to be attractive to small, multi-legged beasties.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, "you seem to be attractive to small, multi-legged beasties" - I'm desperately trying to think of a way turning this "attraction" into an advantage for me and failing What about The Roach Hunter (make a career out of poking roaches, waiting for them to attack me and then commenting breathlessly on how dangerous they are, maybe?) or perhaps The Roach Piper of Perth?

Nope, neither of those are working for me - guess I'll just have to stick to having the living crap scared out of me!

[asgaja.livejournal.com]

ICK! More bugs >.<

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to see a trend here - and I'm worried what's next!

[bloodygoodgirl.livejournal.com]

EIII!!!! Oh my gosh I would have jumped around and screamed and never gotten into my car again. After living in the Phillipines with flying roaches I have no tolerance for bugs.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

I used to live in the Phillipines (a long time ago (1972-1976)). I lived a few kms outside of Batangas City on Luzon. Where did you live?

[bloodygoodgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh really? That's so cool. We lived in Manilla right outside the American air base my step father at the time was stationed at. We actually left right before the volcano erupted. I can remember being there when an earthquake happened and thinking it was a ride.

[catalyst2.livejournal.com]

Was that up at Clark? We went up there to visit some Air Force guys we had known from Thailand (we lived there 1964-1972) who had transferred over there. I remember being amazed at how enormous the place was!

Lots of earthquakes in the Philippines but we never experienced any serious damage while we were there. I did have the experience of "sliding" across the floor one day, surprisingly gently and only realising after it stopped that it had been an earthquake.