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I have a major pest problem in my house, so I got one of those cheap granular pest poison. Not flashy designer stuff Baygone, but (insert cheesy advertisement music) Top Gun Brand, "Kill Ants, Kill Cockroaches, Kill All". It’s not even grammatically right, but really, it doesn’t matter. Ants and cockroaches and all can’t read, as far as I know, though I suspected at one time when a bunch of cockroaches ate an entire page off the ending of a Graham Greene novel.

That’s reader’s digest for you.

Well, this made in China stuff really works!(geez, can you imagine ANYONE saying that line?) My cockroach problem has been reduced, significally.

Until yesterday that is.

Now if any of you had used on of those pest baits, you will notice that occasionally, after they had eaten their fill, they start doing a Jackie Chan (read: Drunken Master) and start acting all wierd, walking reeeeeeally slowly in circles. It may be a high art form right now at the Singapore Biennale, a taiji competition or you trying to get your downgrade letter to escape your next reservist, OR it is a poisoned cockroach.

I deduced it to be the latter because:
1. It is a cockroach
2. It has to be poisoned because Top Gun claims it "Kill Cockroaches", bad grammar and all. And when they Chinese say they can, they can (ok, joke, haha)
3. It died soon after.

Now all of you have seen cockroaches before they die. They don’t just point a wavering finger (leg?) at their alleged adversary and drop dead with a stream of blood flowing out of the side of their mouths with a strong drumming music in the background. No. They turn belly side up and start waving their legs in the air, feelers and all.

Now when this cockroach was doing just that, belly side up thing I mean, another cockroach came along and guess what he did. Now I assume this cockroach is a him because, well, I don’t know. Anyway, this cockroach, came along, and started EATING his poor comrade. Right there, right then. Like, Oh! A victim of an accidental poisoning! Let’s eat him!

So this guy, he started nibbling away at his old buddy’s tummy while his buddy look on at his own tummy being eaten, legs and feelers still moving and all. So now, the poison probably spreads from the eaten to the eater.

Now ain’t you guys glad I didn’t have a camera on hand at that time.

Till next time. Peace.

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