La Cucaracha

There had been talk of large cockroaches but after having them crawling all over my body in Africa I thought, "how bad can it be?" Clearly worse than I had figured.

I was in the school supply room signing out materials (you have to sign everything out and I mean EVERYTHING...I had to count paper...it is ridiculous - I digress). The school uniforms are also located in the supply room so there were a number of parents and students around trying things on and getting what they needed. Anyway, I reached into a box of student workbooks and a cockroach ran up my arm, this was not a small African cockroach, this was a GIANT cockroach, this cockroach was so big it could have carried my supplies for me, and the sucker should have seeing as I threw them in the air and screamed at the top of my lungs making a complete spectacle of myself in front of students and parents. Needless to say there was no recovering in a graceful way, the biggest cockroach on the face of the planet didn't flee it just skuttled about my pile of supplies...fantastic...So as I did the "I'm so grossed out Mexican Hat dance" this disease infested creature walked over my ever so carefully counted supplies. I clearly need to work on my pest control. Where is a gecko when you need one?