Attack of the Flying Roaches, part 1

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SEVEN of the M-F's, to be exact.

So, Friday night I had put Captain Crazy to bed, washed the dishes, and watched my show. At 9:00 I had finally settled into my chair with my knitting, when a flutter of movement caught my eye. A dragonfly-sized thing was fluttering across the living room, with a clickety-buzzing sound to it. I thought, "WTF is that?"

Then it landed on the TV table. It was a flying roach! Oh, s***! !! I frantically searched for something to smack it with. My husband's flip-flops were under the couch, so I bent down to grab one. When I straightened up, where one roach had been, there were suddenly 3! They fluttered at each other, flexing their wings as they milled about in the TV glow.

I dropped the flip-flop and ran for the kitchen, where the bug spray was. But the bug spray was gone; there'd been an ant incursion several months earlier. The first spray that met my urgent, fumbling hand was a bottle of Febreeze pet odor eliminator. Better than nothing.

In Texas, they not only fly, they swarm....no joke!

Sylkat

I would had been terrified! One time I was in my bedroom at night and I felt something under my sleeve. I roll it up and it was a stink bug! I yelled and smacked it off, and ran downstairs. I ran into the kitchen, where my mom was, and took my shirt off as fast as I could. I threw it on the ground and started panting, my mom was like "What the hell are you?" Lol

Nothing like a flying roach..lol they scare the s**t out of me..my family come from egypt so we go there sometimes on holiday and the ones there are HUGE...i hate to kill things but when a giant roach comes at you murder is on my mind...lol

One jumped from the lampshade onto my mum's face once. It was horrible. Would've been funnier if I wasn't trying to keep well, WELL away from the little monster.