I have an insane fear of roaches. Knowing that the fear is probably definitely irrational doesn’t make me any less afraid though. If you need a mouse trap emptied, I’m your girl. If you need a roach squished, you will find my empty pair of shoes because I ran away so fast, they fell off. At the zoo several years back, a zookeeper was holding an enormous roach and giving a talk on roaches. “They can’t bite. They get about 80 feet long. They run 50mph faster than a cheetah straight at you.” Actually I don’t know what she said. I saw the roach and heard her say that they don’t bite as I was walking quickly running away.
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I have a deathly phobia of mice and raccoons. It’s bad. Once I thought I saw a mouse in our NYC apartment and before I knew it I was on a train leaving the city and heading to my brothers. I ran out of my apartment without turning off lights or changing out of my pajamas. Confession: I realized afterwards that I think what I thought was a mouse was my husband’s shoe propped up on the other shoe.
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Lol! Well i left the house and went to my parents last year bc i saw a roach. Mice don’t bother me at all and I’m only scared of racoons if they have rabies. But it definitely sounds like my fear of roaches is on par with your fear of mice.
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Oh this is funny! I am terrified of mice.
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I’m with Elisha. I am absolutely positively terrified of mice. I can trade with you and catch all the roaches for you.
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Yes I will catch roaches with her fo’sho!!
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You girls are sooo brave! I’m serious!
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DEAL!!! I can’t even pick up dead roaches. Not even with a tissue. Not even with a broom and dust pan.
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Mice are just fine with me. They’re kind of cute. Gross but cute.
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I have that fear too! I grew up in a house so we never had roaches. The only ones I saw were on TV or at the zoo (read Madagascar hissing cockroaches). SO when I heard people say they had roaches in their house that is what I thought they had! It wasn’t until I was 16 that I found out that wasn’t the case. Still hate them to this day. To shfk17, raccoons aren’t so bad. I have cared for my share and even bottle fed baby ones. They just have a bad rep 🙂
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My aunt raised a racoon. I never saw it but my dad liked it. We used to trap them when i was a kid. Of ucourse we used live traps and released them. They got into our trash and ate in our garden. I always thought they were cute though. Especially the baby ones.
I don’t even want to THINK about a hissing roach. I know I already see them as being bigger than they are. I have nightmares about roaches all the time.
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