This is what happens when the lights go out. The rats mobilize and the cockroaches arm themselves. It's an all-out war unseen by human eyes. We wouldn't want to see it either; it would be too horrible to comprehend.
Someone once told me that a person unknowingly eats about two spiders a year. This usually happens while the person is asleep. Apparently spiders like wet, moist environments. And what's more wet & moist than a person's mouth? (Okay, get your mind out of the gutter, kids.)
Chinese parents have stomachs of iron. Literally; their stomach lining is cold hard metal. Rivets line their intestines. There is very little they cannot digest; I kid you not. Want me to prove it?
Well, pull up a chair and let me tell you a story. 'Tis a true story, a story from my youth.
I think I just created a super-breed of ants.
Last winter, a colony of ants appeared in my bathroom. They popped up overnight without warning. I just walked in there one day, and everywhere around me is a deluge of tiny black specks walking around.
(For your information, I keep my bathroom pretty darn clean, so no dirty bathroom jokes please.)
Weekly random rambles, musings & writings of Mike Lee in San Francisco, CA