Would you let a Cockroach Crawl onto Your Body?
April 9th 2008 21:00
Photo by George Shuklin. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
I used to live with a flatmate who would squeal if one crawled onto her body or in her hair. Given that she had long, thick, wavy hair, that was easy for a cockroach to do. On the other hand, it didn’t bother me if it crawled on me. I would simply flick it off. The one time it did happen a cockroach had made its way up my leg before I realised what was happening. I flicked it off with my finger and my flatmate looked at me in horror. But I can’t bring myself to go as far as my neighbour as to squish them with my fingers. My neighbour hates cockroaches with a vengeance so she’ll kill them on the spot with her fingers. Watching her get cockroach guts all over her fingers makes me squeal and squirm. She thinks I’m being silly – she says all she has to go is to go into the bathroom and wash her hands afterwards but still! Why get your hands dirty if you can avoid it, especially when it concerns cockroach guts?
On the other hand, my neighbour likes to tell me stories about how cockroaches can crawl into your ear and get stuck there. Now that gives me the willies as I once a program on TV about that happening to a guy and in the end he had to be operated on so the doctors could remove the cockroach. How annoying it must feel to have one forever crawling around your ear. And all that effort and cost spent just to remove one tiny cockroach…
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