陸曼青
陸曼青

台灣人。 社會學出身,專長是歷史、政治社會學研究。 不知怎地開始研究日本武術的歷史文化⋯⋯ 聯繫作者:mannlu965@gmail.com

【Joke Talk】The touch of a cockroach

But that night, I wanted to touch a cockroach for the first time.

"How does a cockroach feel to the touch?"
I was taking the MRT when I thought of this question.

Make no mistake, I've seen and killed quite a few cockroaches.
Since I don't like this kind of creature, my only reaction to seeing it since I was a child is to avoid and attack.
So much so that I have never carefully touched the body of a cockroach.

I know some people will say that cockroaches are hairy to the touch,
But I think it's mostly the feeling of being scratched by tentacles, or a barb on the foot.
But what I'm curious about is how the cockroach feels to the touch.
I know some people will say, then touch it after killing it.
But it would also make me very embarrassed.
The reason is that I don't like the white sap running out of the cockroach's body,
And after the blows of slippers and newspapers, it is very difficult to get an intact cockroach corpse.

I once had a close encounter with a cockroach.
That was when I was going to take a shower one night.
It stopped on the washstand, shaking its tentacles.
"Maybe it's looking for directions, maybe it's through the drain hole."
I thought so.
It was a large cockroach, with a body as wide as two fingers and as long as two knots of fingers.

I looked at it and somehow thought of shrimp.
"Does the cockroach shell feel like a shrimp shell?"
Since that night, every time I see shrimp I think about this question.

But that night, I wanted to touch a cockroach for the first time.
I imagine the roughness and smoothness of the shell, will it have wings?
So I reached out
"Snapped!"
It was a natural reaction, I had the slippers in my hand when I saw the cockroaches.

So far, I still have no conclusion about the tactile sensation of cockroaches.

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