One of the worst physical feelings in the world is having a flying cockroach land on your skin. The sensation of having their spindly, needle-like legs crawling over your neck or arm is nothing short of a nightmare. It's enough to make a grown man run around and try to beat the critter out and expel it into oblivion.
I'm sure that everyone has experienced this once or twice in their lives. Just like diarrhea (another one of the worst physical feelings in the world... but i digress...)
My officemate is in a sadistic/playful mood today. She's throwing this plastic yet lifelike cockroach onto everyone who passes by this area. We're trying to see how the reactions will vary from nationality to nationality:
Hong Kong Chinese: Screams and runs away.
Canadian: Screams and ducks.
Australian: Ducks and says "Jeez!"
Singaporean: Scream and panics.
Malaysian: Runs away
Me: I caught it with one hand with Ninja like precision. Getting much applause from the audience.
From this little scientific experiment, we deduced that everyone is afraid of flying cockroaches. There was a mini-FGD about the "flying cockroach" syndrome, and the fear was universal. Everyone feared it for the same reason, and that is not wanting to have that icky feeling of spindly, needle like legs crawling on your skin.
That's actually fun to know. Add "cockroach" to one of life's greatest equalizers: along with sitting down to take a dump and dying.
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