Western influence on Egyptian wildlife.....LOOK OUT!!!

Did I ever tell you guys about Egyptian cockroaches?? Never?? Oh boy.....well, here's a nice story to give you the willies.........

Egyptian cockroaches are HUGE. I mean HUGE, BIG, HUMONGOUS.....VERY LARGE!! And not only are they HUGE.....they aren't rectangular shaped....they are more egg shaped...with these big long feelers. EWWWWWW! I can't stand them. I'd rather run after a mouse and kill it, then kill these things. YUCK YUCK YUCK!!! Oh yeah...these HUGE ones aren't really apt dwellers...they are sort of motel freaks...they stop in for a day.....then off to somewheres else.

And these cockroaches aren't your regular garden variety either. They GLIDE. Not to be confused with flapping the wings flying...nope...they glide. One of their favourite tricks when they are in pursuit is to crawl up a wall super fast and once they reach the ceiling, jump off and glide to safety. I've been duped by that one a couple of times. Ur running after the thing and you figure....AH HAH!....he's going up the wall, I'll smack him with a slipper....but NOPE...they've got a plan.....so they make it up the wall...and suddenly jump.....you stop in slow motion and see this UGLY thing heading straight for your HEAD...run the other way yelling......he aims for the open window....and well.....that is that.

So ask me why I'm telling you about egyptian cockroaches today??

Well....here I am...about to take a shower....I get the water just the right temperature....turn on the spray....remove clothes and then remove glasses.....step into tub and then notice something move outta the corner of my eye....WHAT WAS THAT??? It's a shadow moving up the shower curtain double time......I scramble to get my glasses.....OMG....WHERE THE HELL ARE MY GLASSES!!!....find them....and its super cockroach about to take a nose dive from the top of the shower curtain.....!!!!!

I examine possible options....

* run from bathroom screaming
*call kids to help me
*try to kill it on my own
*direct spray of water on it and hope it goes down the drain.....

Then I look down and realize.....oops.....nix on # 1 and 2....unless I can manage to get a towel on, while keeping one eye on super roach.....hmmmmmmm.......I tried to kill it on my own....but realize.....that smacking a cockroach against a shower curtain doesn't mean instant death....and besides....he could just up and glide down on me.....EWWWWWWWWWW!.....so that leaves me with the spray of water.......I think back desperately to my youth at the county fairs playing that water gun spray game where the first horse to the finish line wins........DON"T FAIL ME NOW, COWBOY!! And aim the spray at him......he falls.......PLOP into the bathtub....oh you know I ain't in it......I keep spraying desperately....until he starts the swirl.....round and round and round and round......down the drain. Bye-bye cockroach. Now where's my prize??

Not bad for a westerner.