It was the centipedes he feared most, and rightly so. They were voracious predators. Going outside was out of the question, of course. The area was swarming with toads and dragonflies. He wouldn’t last ten minutes.
My first day in my apartment in Florida, I spotted a huge roach on the kitchen floor. Rolled up my newspaper (then called “The Mullet Wrapper”), and when I approached he spread his WINGS and STARTED FLYING clumsily around the kitchen. I finally got him, but to this day just thinking about it I can feel my hair follicles standing up. But I love Florida now. Lots and lots of exterminators.
When I lived in Florida, we never called those big buggers cockroaches. They’re “Palmetto Bugs” ( the little buggers, found in bad restaurant kitchens are cockroaches ).
Here in Ecuador, we’ll occasionally encounter a dead Palmetto Bug ( Let us spray ! ) but my wife calls them cucarachas, and throws if fit if one is discovered in the house – even in a demised state.
Such a Small Man, in the limelight of the closet-door keyhole! Are you about to Come Out of the Closet? Will you gallantly challenge the cockroach, silverfish, or other vermin with improvised weaponry, to prove your manhood and/or save your life, the way The Incredible Shrinking Man did against that spider in his eponymous motion picture? http://tinyurl.com/y88h94hw
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 7 years ago
He just didn’t feel like committing crackterscide just yet.
painedsmile almost 7 years ago
Before you scurry away and hide in some plumber’s crack, why not treat us to a little song and dance?
haikumiko almost 7 years ago
This is your chance in spotlight. Don’t jumble with grand opportunity.
SumoSasquatch (aka a boy named Su) almost 7 years ago
༼ಠ益ಠ༽
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 7 years ago
It was the centipedes he feared most, and rightly so. They were voracious predators. Going outside was out of the question, of course. The area was swarming with toads and dragonflies. He wouldn’t last ten minutes.
INGSOC almost 7 years ago
The Gong Show Hook will eventually pull you away..
coltish1 almost 7 years ago
The trials of being President.
Mad-ge Dish Soap almost 7 years ago
Find an unoccupied crack will take seeing your light in the light in the spot light.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
I wish I could make a crack about a crack that would crack me up.
Ray_C almost 7 years ago
My first day in my apartment in Florida, I spotted a huge roach on the kitchen floor. Rolled up my newspaper (then called “The Mullet Wrapper”), and when I approached he spread his WINGS and STARTED FLYING clumsily around the kitchen. I finally got him, but to this day just thinking about it I can feel my hair follicles standing up. But I love Florida now. Lots and lots of exterminators.
Linguist almost 7 years ago
RAY_C
When I lived in Florida, we never called those big buggers cockroaches. They’re “Palmetto Bugs” ( the little buggers, found in bad restaurant kitchens are cockroaches ).
Here in Ecuador, we’ll occasionally encounter a dead Palmetto Bug ( Let us spray ! ) but my wife calls them cucarachas, and throws if fit if one is discovered in the house – even in a demised state.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 7 years ago
@RAY_C -
I have a kitty that hunts the palmetto bugs in my 61 year old house.
It creeps me out that she can hear them in the cabinets, and I pay attention when she starts staring at the wood paneling with the dark knotholes.
Sisyphos almost 7 years ago
Such a Small Man, in the limelight of the closet-door keyhole! Are you about to Come Out of the Closet? Will you gallantly challenge the cockroach, silverfish, or other vermin with improvised weaponry, to prove your manhood and/or save your life, the way The Incredible Shrinking Man did against that spider in his eponymous motion picture? http://tinyurl.com/y88h94hw