Thread: I dont mind admitting it.............................

Originally Posted by KimAZ

We are on the subject of insects! Who opened this thread? Chris??? OK, here is something I don't ever want to relive! I once lived in Rio de Janeiro (home of gigantic cockroaches). One day while shopping in Copacabana, I saw something dart out in my peripheral vision. The next thing I noticed there was something trapped between the arch of my foot and my sandal, about 5 to 6 inches long - antenna on one side of my foot and the anterior legs on the other. GROSS!!! I looked down and started madly kicking my foot. Eventually my sandal and the cockroach went flying but in the process, I had managed to gather a rather good sized crowd watching me hysterically trying to free my foot of the cockroach! (Embarrassing!). Once my sandal AND the cockroach were a half a block away, I calmly (and with as much dignity as possible) caught the closest taxi (with one shoe) and went home. I have never forgotten the feeling of that "shell" under my foot!!! I really hate those things! I have sooooo many other bug stories but think I will spare you.....

hahahaha ewwww! :-D cool image!
Something similar happened to me - at a party with people I barely knew and never saw again after that - Chris, close your eyes you're going to have nightmares - something crawls on my hand - I look down just as an ENORMOUS (well, for a country where we don't do tarentulas) spider crawls on my arm inside my jumper's sleeve. So, to the sweet sweet music of Metallica, I started this frantic shake hoping to dislodge the critter while people looked on wondering if I had finally gone completely bonkers - and then when that didn't work and I could feel the thing crawling higher... well let's just say thank God for inventing the bra, without which that evening could have been really embarassing. For good measure I also proceeded to stomp thoroughly on my jumper as it whas laying on the floor.
I think the spider escaped, though.