Wednesday, June 07, 2006
In fact, because of the rain, I witnessed a spectacular natural phenomenon - The Great Cockroach Crossing.
There I was, sitting at the bus-stop minding my own business while the heavens emptied swimming pools of rain all around me - then I noticed something scrambling to get across the road. A lot of brown crawling somethings.
Now, being someone who's deathly afraid of cockroaches, it didn't take me long to recognise what they were. There were dozens of them coming out of the drains and the grass on the opposite side of the flooded road, struggling in a kind of cockroach crawl-swim to get across the road - towards me. Luckily for me, there was a pretty deep "moat" in front of the bus-stop because the drains were all clogged up, and it didn't seem like many of those roaches were going to make it. Happily, some also got squashed by a passing motorbike.
And then a car came, splashing water from the moat to the front of the bus-stop, and then I saw a couple of cockroaches ride the wave and surf onto the (relatively) dry safety of the ground in front of me.
I'm just lucky the bus came soon enough, so I lived to tell the tale. If I'd stayed there any longer, I might have been bludgeoned to death by people in my hall trying to catch a nice nap in the cool rainy weather because I was making such a ruckus shrieking like a girl.
Damn those cockroaches and their uncanny ability to survive. Some times I really admire their tenacity and hardiness... then I do my darnest to squish them with my shoe.
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