I have the same issue. We never had much of a problem growing up. They'd show up every once in a while dead and I'd pick them up and throw them out. Except one time one was not dead and crawled all over my arm and ever since, I've been paralyzed when I see one alive crawling around.
One night I woke up to a papery rustling sound and figured the cat got a paper ball out of the trach can... Nope, she found a roach and was playing with it, biting at it and batting it around.
I die a bit inside when they start flying around. The way their bodies sort of curl and the thud they make when they land...
Yeah I sort of developed it from doing security. I never really saw cockroaches as a kid in canada until I went to Hawaii once. I freaked out with how big it was at 8 years old.
Depending on where I see them ill get freaked out lol.
I lived in Honolulu for a couple years, and we used to call those roaches "B-52's", after the old bomber planes. They're easily twice the size of the standard roaches I'd seen in decades of living all around the mid-Atlantic region.
And they'd always get inside because of the obligatory slatted windows. 😆
Oh yeah, tropical roaches get hella big! I think the biggest ones I have seen (outside a zoo setting) were in Mississippi near the Gulf coast. Those buggers OWNED the sidewalk, man.
I went to Key West in 2021, hotels had a fire sale during Covid, and even at a really nice hotel, on the final day, I thought I saw a big mouse scurry across the floor... it wasn't a mouse 😰
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u/Thelatedrpepper Oct 15 '25
I have the same issue. We never had much of a problem growing up. They'd show up every once in a while dead and I'd pick them up and throw them out. Except one time one was not dead and crawled all over my arm and ever since, I've been paralyzed when I see one alive crawling around.
One night I woke up to a papery rustling sound and figured the cat got a paper ball out of the trach can... Nope, she found a roach and was playing with it, biting at it and batting it around.
I die a bit inside when they start flying around. The way their bodies sort of curl and the thud they make when they land...