Had to spit out a grasshopper!

[Tuckervill]

I guess this is not the time to tell about the time, sleeping in the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, when I was awakened by a giant cockroach falling from "somewhere" slap! on to my cheek, right beside my mouth.

Karen

[ClockworkOrange]

I just love hearing all your anecdotes.

Frequently I moan about not being able to buy certain things in the UK that you guys have in the US.

BUT................we only have incey wincey spiders, that's enough for me!

Just remembered, sorry going off Topic slightly, noticed this tiny little spider in the garden

Then the wonders of digital cameras using macro

I should have made out he was the size of a dinner plate!


Clock

[wackyjacky1]

I guess this is not the time to tell about the time, sleeping in the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, when I was awakened by a giant cockroach falling from "somewhere" slap! on to my cheek, right beside my mouth.

Karen

You just described my worst nightmare. I freakin' HATE roaches.

[salsabike]

I stayed in a poor little apartment in Kyoto in the summer of '86 for about ten days. It had absolutely HUGE Asian roaches, the kind they have at the Seattle Zoo because they're so impressively enormous--3 to 4 inches long, I guess. I made a deal with myself: As long as I didn't wake up with one on my face, I could take it. I used to hear one of the guys thundering through the apartment in the middle of the night going after them with his tennis racket.

We slept on futons on the floor, so the possibility of a close encounter was pretty real. However, I never did wake up with one on my face, so I managed...I guess if I had, I would have found a way to manage that too. But glad I didn't have to. I guess he was saving himself for Tuckervill.