I’ve never seen a flying cockroach
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About 5 years ago, I had a cockroach fly at me as I opened a kitchen cabinet in my Brooklyn apartment. He was big, about 3 1/2 inches long.
He was my first (and so far only) flying cockroach. Freaked me out! I thought, “If they can fly, there’s no hope for us.”
I remember reading long ago that in the event of nuclear war, the only things that would be living would be cockroaches. 😲
When I first moved to Texas out of college I had one fly over my TV in my apartment. Being the girl who always made Dad kill crickets cause I hate the crunch sound,I almost fainted. But I stepped up and eventually killed it... with my typewriter ... after flipping the thing on its back. Then I put it in a jar to prove to my Dad I did it. Can laugh now.
He was my first (and so far only) flying cockroach. Freaked me out! I thought, “If they can fly, there’s no hope for us.”
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Haha! That’s so true. I’ve read multiple times through the years that, following a nuclear holocaust, the only things left would be cockroaches. It’s possible that the sewer roach in NOLA could fly and was just choosing to walk. He did disappear rather suddenly while I was talking to the videographer. It occurred to me that I didn’t know why that man would be filming the card play so I asked. I was shocked when he told me that people cheated at bridge at very high levels of play, and filming the play helped identify their methods of cheating. I lost track of the beast while I was losing my innocence.