Positive Post
May 30, 2008
Friday
3:20 PM

I appreciate the steady knowing and even vibration of ALL IS WELL,
however
I enjoy an infrequent adrenalin rush before settling back into that knowing!

Cockroach

We live on the edge of a Florida jungle.
Except for an occasional huge straying turtle or the tiny dinosaur-like
lizzard, we tend to forget the jungle is there.

Today I was in my bedroom organizing my sox drawer and
a two inch cockroach leaped out of nowhere and grabbed my
pinky finger, he held on upside down till a second later I shook
him free!

I screamed like a girl-
three short loud bursts "Ah, ah, ah!"

Fortunately my husband was in the next room.

"What's wrong, Jude?", he asked.

I being very excited ran into where he was and with the
adrenalin still pulsing told him what I just told you.

He said-
"You're such a girl!"...and then like the great white hunter
he is, he stopped his project and immediately stood up
and walked into my room, the scene of the drama.

Now we are both standing in my bedroom and silently
I am I pointing to the corner of the room.

My husband crouched down, near the wire basket sox drawer
and said-
"There he is....there he is......NOT!"

Always with the jokes. I love him. We had a good laugh.

Then thoughtfully my husband said:
"I bet he's under the carpet where it bulges here in the corner."

So, he lifted the leopard throw rug and exposed the lone roach.
Squish!
Bug killed.

Then my husband turned to me and said-
"You know what they say, Jude?"
and being that we had this conversation a few years ago.

I replied:
"What? That if you see one then seven more are hiding?"

"Yup!"-He answered.

I said-
"No way. He's one of the generals. The generals are big
and they travel alone."
Still excited, I ran for a kleenex to wrap the body in. My
husband wrapped and squished it and then proceeded
to run around the house waving the little bundle at me,
as I he laughed and I screamed.
: )
End of story.

I am grateful that THE cockroach was easily found and exterminated.
I am grateful that I don't remember seeing any in our house in
years and I am confident that my husband and I are the only
tenants now living in our edge of a jungle home.
Breathing freely,
Iron Man