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submitted 1 year ago by 31415926535@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'll start. Apt next door is having a cockroach infected. 4 days ago, I was playing sims on my laptop, wearing my eyeglasses. Right lens got blurry, took off, huge cockroach was crawling across inside of lens. While I was wearing them. Freak out ensued.

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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was 7’ish, living in Florida and spotted something shiny in my black bean bag. Reached down, grabbed it with my hand then screamed as it wiggled its way out. I am almost 50 and still traumatized by it. Mind you this is ginormous Florida cockroach /palmetto bug bigger than my child size hand.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 points 1 year ago

oh fuck that would've just killed me, thats horrifying

[-] AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was going to reply to OP with "They aren't cockroaches, they're palmetto bugs."

Like, I absolutely get that these things exist and will be a part of life in Florida. But when we're staying in your fancy hotel and complain about the bugs scurrying away from the light in the bathroom, you have to do a little better than argue semantics with me.

[-] Adramis 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're literally cockroaches. Even Wikipedia agrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach Fuck that hotel, lol

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