re: flying cockroaches.
hell yes they can fly. i'm sure i told this one before but here it is again.
i was in the philippines a few years ago and had never seen a cockroach in my entire 22 years of life. being from canada and from a city that is covered in snow for 5 months a year, we didn't get many roaches kicking around, and obviously i didn't know they can fly.
so anyway, its been a few weeks in the tropics, i got used to seeing roaches and lizards chilling everywhere, things were cool.
i go to take a shit in this small little bathroom that is a concrete room just big enough to open the door turn around, drop trou and do your thing.
i'm sitting there relaxing and thinking about the trip so far, looking at the trail of ants that are going up the wall to my right and this roach starts crawling up the door in front of me. I start watching it, looking at the antennae feel around and help mr roach up the door.
i swear, as soon as i thought, "whats the big deal that everyone makes of roaches? they're not scary at all", that fucking thing jumped off the door, hit me right in the face and started buzzing around the tiny shithole. it was like that fucker could read my mind and was like, "oh you think so whiteboy?"
i started freaking out, probably yelled like a little girl, and got out of there fast as possible just to see the family i was staying there laughing at me, while i'm just like "Holy shit! i didn't know those things could fly!"
still, they ain't so scary. ;)