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

[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.