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Tell me about your cockroach horror story (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I was 7’ish, living in Florida and spotted something shiny in my black bean bag. Reached down, grabbed it with my hand then screamed as it wiggled its way out. I am almost 50 and still traumatized by it. Mind you this is ginormous Florida cockroach /palmetto bug bigger than my child size hand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

oh fuck that would've just killed me, thats horrifying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was going to reply to OP with "They aren't cockroaches, they're palmetto bugs."

Like, I absolutely get that these things exist and will be a part of life in Florida. But when we're staying in your fancy hotel and complain about the bugs scurrying away from the light in the bathroom, you have to do a little better than argue semantics with me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're literally cockroaches. Even Wikipedia agrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach Fuck that hotel, lol