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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: doby who wrote (23156)	7/1/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

When I was a lot younger I found myself in Sri Lanka one fine summer. The house I stayed in was very nice, but in the manner of tropical houses it didn't exactly button up tight at night. I believe there was a hand'sbreadth of unscreened daylight between the walls and eaves. There were mosquitoes, but that's for another beer. One fine dark night I was on the edge of sleep when I heard something, sorta like the noise made by a plastic spoon on a Chinet plate. The noise wouldn't let up, and it bugged me. Snake? Rat? One of those huge hornet things taht sinks an inch of ovipositor thru your temple, lays eggs which turn you into a liberal?? By now I was in a cold sweat. So I turned on a light and tracked the clatter to the bathroom. There was a roach like described here. An honest three inches minus antennae. When it moved, it clattered! Well, I took a big wad of toilet paper (like I said, a very nice house.) soaked it, and lobbed it hard at the critter. It took three-four such cellulosic shot loads before the beast stopped bucking and rearing. I guess the laws of material science take over. The diminutive one-inchers I contended with in Baltimore were tough as nails. This citizen, while big&strong, just didn't have the same sort of structural integrity under distributed impact. Well, I finally flushed him. In several portions - there was an awful lot of that French vanilla pudding type stuff in there.