True story:
Last night, I was getting ready for bed. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, and I saw the bottle of vitamins that I bought over the summer, and that I stopped taking after about a month, because I hated swallowing the giant pills.
I decided I should start taking them again. I finished brushing my teeth, popped a vitamin in my mouth, and walked out to my living room (or, well, only room—it’s a studio) and took a big gulp of water from the half-full glass I’d left out a few minutes before.
Mission accomplished, pill swallowed, I looked at the glass.
Which had a big, disgusting waterbug (which is just a fancy word for COCKROACH) floating in it.
I DRANK the BUG water. I ALMOST drank the BUG. In fact, I may have drank a bug. Who knows? Maybe there were TWO in the water before I took my giant gulp.
Do cockroaches carry the plague? I’m probably going to die now, right?
Gaghaighah.
I decided I should start taking them again. I finished brushing my teeth, popped a vitamin in my mouth, and walked out to my living room (or, well, only room—it’s a studio) and took a big gulp of water from the half-full glass I’d left out a few minutes before.
Mission accomplished, pill swallowed, I looked at the glass.
Which had a big, disgusting waterbug (which is just a fancy word for COCKROACH) floating in it.
I DRANK the BUG water. I ALMOST drank the BUG. In fact, I may have drank a bug. Who knows? Maybe there were TWO in the water before I took my giant gulp.
Do cockroaches carry the plague? I’m probably going to die now, right?
Gaghaighah.
posted by Noames at 8:52 AM
10 Comments:
Once, not so very long ago, I poured myself a great big bowl of cereal and settled in to watch TV. After I had eaten most of it, (and it was HEALTHY cereal, with SOY milk), I looked down and saw my bowl was Crawling with ANTS.
Do you remember in high school when we all ate the ant cookies? Ok, ew, I need to throw up now.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh grody grody thats disgusting ohmygod i would have barfed.
i officially now have the heebie jeebies
ohmygod! That. May be the grossest thing I have ever heard.
I would have shoved my finger down my throat immediately to see the #2 roach!
Urrgglecchhhhhhhh.... /vomit/
Jeanne--I read your comment and thought "ugh, that may just be worse." And then I read Anna's comment, and I thought, "ugh, I don't remember that, but now it seems like I've had both the world's MOST disgusting bug/food incident AND the world's SECOND MOST disgusting bug/food incident. I may never eat again.
And I thought about throwing up. I kind of wanted to. Except that I hate throwing up, so I decided to cut my losses and (try to) move on.
But... I'm still not over it.
Noames, I bet you will come back from the Peace Corps and read this post and laugh until tears come out your nose.
there is a HUGE difference between a cockroach and a waterbug believe me! waterbug doesnt freak me out as if you were sure it was a cockroach. ew.
Nah, they LOVE that stuff on Survivor. It's supposed to be extra protein, right??
justjunebug: It was D.C. Trust me, it was a cockroach (sorry naomi, don't read this comment.)
Don't feel so bad. I drank a whole cup of coffee and found a huge bug at the very bottom of it. I don't think it was a roach. But I'm still not sure ....
(Bleah! Bleah! Bleah! I'm jumping up and down in my seat in disgust.)
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