I wonder why it is that cockroaches gross so many people out - me included. I looked at Karyn's pictures and tried to study them without flinching...but I can still feel my flesh crawl. The first time I ever saw a cockroach was when I was a young mom and we lived Nebraska - we had to stay at a motel that was grungy and cheap. That place was full of the little brown roaches. I was disgusted but did not freak or anything. Then we moved to Louisiana and THAT is where I think I learned to hate those bugs. They were the huge kind that fly The memory I can never get rid of was when I was taking a shower and felt something tickling at my ankle.....guess he was trying to cling to me for safety from the water. Maybe he came up from the drain...I know I must have screamed and probably went running naked to flee. (talk about scary! )

My kids know that I hate the bugs and I suppose it was when they were young that I passed along my fear of roaches. A couple years ago, Jason & Devon (sirrahved) were staying here at the house. I was AGAIN, taking a shower and saw this huge roach in the stall I screamed and ran. Hubby came in and caught the bug and flushed it....we were probably both remembering those buggy years in Louisiana and thinking how they had followed us to Ohio.......well it turns out that Jason & Devon had bought this plastic bug at a dime store and put it there as a joke. Well, they sure got a reaction at of me. They couldn't believe we actuallu flushed it - about died laughing