29th Mar 2003
More Fun With Cockroaches
Reader Holly W. wrote (actually, a couple of days ago, but Blogger was sick in the meantime) about my recent cockroach story:
Last roach story I promise (I’m not a blogstalker).
Twenty plus years ago, I was just a kid - I vividly remember my mom
getting a glass of water, taking a sip, then spitting it out all over
the floor….there was a little roach wiggling around in the water -
she’d felt it in her mouth, thank God, and didn’t swallow him.This is not to horrify, but to instruct; ever since then, everyone in my
family keeps their glasses and all drinkware UPSIDE DOWN in the
cabinets, no exceptions. When my husband and I got together, I turned
all the glasses in his apartment upside down (he lived like a typical
bachelor, and so his roach potential was quite high) and I insist that
all the glasses in our house be stored that way. And when I told him
the story, he immediately agreed with me.
Not to be outdone, I know a guy who had to go to the hospital to get a cockroach tweezed out of his ear. Another time, my wife and I and group were at a restuarant in San Francisco, and they served us empty soup bowls upsidedown, inside one of which was a live roach. The barely apologized and gave us nothing for free! (Sadly, otherwise a delicious Thai restaurant, around 26th St. in the Mission.)
Worst of all, a friend of mine witnessed someone at a pizza party bite into a slice and remove from his mouth…(brace yourself)…a BandAid.
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