My LEAST favorite thing about hot weather?

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<p>It brings the cockroaches out.</p>

<p>I go to get in the shower to get ready for my LAST CHORAL CONCERT EVER tonight (since 4th grade, folks! Wish me…erm…break-a-leg! XD), and I turn on the water and look over, and there is a HUGE cockroach on the wall.</p>

<p>Now I’m not the girliest girl in the world, but I can’t STAND cockroaches. I jumped half out of my skin and ran and got my daddy to kill it for me. ^_^</p>

<p>And of course I was freaking out that another one was going to crawl out of the drain or something the WHOLE time I was in the shower.</p>

<p>ICK.</p>

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<p>I feel for you. I grew up in NYC, where cockroaches abounded. They are disgusting. My husband (then boyfriend) used to walk into his apartment, flip on the light, and say “Beunos noches, roaches!”</p>

<p>When we got married and moved to suburbia, I found out to my great delight that there are no cockroaches here. Ants, bees, spiders, and other strange creepy-crawlies, yes. But no roaches!</p>

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<p>Poor kiddo!
My worst cockroach story - we were living in the deep south and one Saturday morning I was sitting in bed talking to H as he brushed his teeth. A HUGE, HUGE cockroach buzzed down out of the ceiling AC vent and zoomed straight down the neck of my nightgown. I did the only sensible thing, which was to grab the hem of my nightgown and raise it straight up over my head, inside-out, while jumping up and down on the bed screaming. H had missed the flight of the palmetto bug and just stood there, giving me the most amazed look…</p>

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<p>Booklady-I think that’s the worst part, is I NEVER see them. So when I do, it’s just like…“AUGHHHH!”.</p>

<p>OMG DRAGONMOM, how awful!</p>

<p>My mom was telling me (after I told her about this) about the roaches she saw the summer she lived in South America. ICK.</p>

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<p>My favorite cockroach story is about a friend who moved into a tiny, tenement type apartment in NYC.</p>

<p>She was house proud and set about giving the place a top to bottom cleaning, including defrosting the 'fridge.</p>

<p>She pulled out the ice tray from the freezer department, and it was filled with – frozen roaches… UGH</p>

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<p>Cockroaches in the midwest aren’t as big as some parts of the country, but IF I was to tell my worst cockroach story ever, let’s just say it would probably disgust even some of the NYers and southerners. I will say that I haven’t eaten cottage cheese for at least 20 years.</p>

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<p>Hot weather can also bring humidity! No matter what you do with heat and humidity, you never feel quite cool enough. Not to mention sleeping well at night!</p>