2" cockroach hid behind my shaving mirror in the shower.

[Archibald Nixon]

Approximately 6" from my face, upon discovery.

I have never come out of a post-wakeup, pre-coffee fugue faster than I did this morning.

PS also: never had a Fun Nature Fact come crashing to the forefront of my memory, when I used some cleaning spray to extricate it: cockroaches can FUCKING FLY.

:sad:

 

[Cassie]

Did you squeal like a girly man?

 

[Mirah]

Ew.
I am very squimish now.
Thanks.

 

[headvoid]

I once stayed in a hotel in Washington DC that had upside down polystyrene cups on the bed legs. We couldn't work out what they were for until we heard things scurrying across the floor at night.

They were there to stop the cockroaches climbing up the bed legs.

 

[Conchaga]

Roaches I can handle. They're not venomous, just unclean. Now, my fear of spiders? That is justified. They're patient, intelligent, and venomous. Creepiest creatures on the planet. I have been to a warzone, traveled across most of the known world by myself, lived in some rough neighborhoods, and I love camping. However, when suddenly confronted with an arachnid, I promise I'll scream like a twelve year-old girl. Fuck me those things are scary.