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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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[โ€“] RBWells 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok. First off, the precipitous decline of insect populations scares me more than any other climate related catastrophe, but oh my God if I never again see a mating swarm of palmetto bugs, it will be too soon. That is something that hopelessly scarred me for life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah most of the cockroach species in my part of the world are harmless beings who just want to process dead wood for us and don't actually live in the house.

When American cockroaches turn up and fly around that scares me though.