Too funny! Growing up we used to say that roaches would be the only thing alive after a nuclear attack, and that they’d be the ones carrying bazookas.
Yeah - and calling them a, ‘Palmetto Bug’ doesn’t fool me!
The first time I saw one was in Army Basic Training, Fort Jackson, SC. I was on KP (not being punished; we all had to do it) and the Mess Sergeant sent me into the pantry for a can of this or that - moved the can - and the thing stood on it’s hind legs and HISSED at me!
Of course, they thought it was HILARIOUS that this ‘Yankee Girl’ would be afraid of a bug - but I was scarred for LIFE!
And don’t even get me started on the enormous SIZE and weird colors of what they call ‘Grasshoppers’ down there! Yikes!
...and SNAKES! Later attending a Land Navigation class at Fort Beauregard, LA. LAND? It was mostly SWAMP! *SHUDDER*
Why, God? Just...WHY? LOL!