Beauty and the Beast

Last night, as I'm typing ferociously about what I'm like as a girl, my roommate started screaming. Let me take a moment to describe the scream. It wasn't a scream of Oh boy, that's hilarious, nor was it the scream of someone broke in. It was somewhere in the middle, definitely high pitched and loud.

Now, I'm just in a t-shirt, so I can't run into her room to see whats the matter because her boyfriend is there. (I'm comfortable in my own skin but that doesn't mean everyone else needs to be.) So I grab whatever is closest and run to her room, heart pounding because I'm not sure what has happened. Let me take a moment to describe the scene I walk in on. My roommate is standing close to her bed looking shaken and her boyfriend is barefoot but armed with a shoe leaning into the bathroom. I ask "What happened?" "A roach! I was brushing my teeth and a roach ran across the sink!" Now, my roommate is really freaked out by roaches and apparently so is her boyfriend. Which I find quite amusing. Her boyfriend is not short and little. He's a regular joe. Tall, funny, and if by appearance I had to lay odds on a fight between him and a roach, I'd put my money on him. And apparently I'd lose. He also is afraid of roaches. Roaches don't really bother me. I'm small, but I'm still bigger than a roach, therefore, the intimidation factor really isn't there for me.

So I start opening up cabinets looking for the roach. I'm barefoot and not armed with a shoe like he is. He's standing by the bathtub gingerly moving things, just hoping he doesn't find it. As I'm pulling stuff out looking for the offending beast, he informs me if I find it he's probably going to cuss. Which I start laughing at because its funny to be that this man, whom I love and adore, will get so riled up by a bug.

Well, we didn't find it. I looked everywhere, even making him actually move stuff in the bathroom instead of faking like he was moving things to find the roach. But no luck, the little bug got away. Much to the angst of my roommate and her boyfriend.