I posted this in the Phobia thread, but it makes me giggle nonetheless.

Now, for starters, Im not weirded out by bugs, at all. Bugs are neat to me for the most part. EXCEPT:
I am terrified, absolutely petrified of cockroaches.
*shiver

even the WORD cockroaches makes me cringe.
This is not exactly a panic attack, but I was panicking a bit haha
Funny story - a couple of months ago I found this bug in my kitchen. it LOOKED like a roach.(my wanting to freak out brain probably made it look more like a roach than it actually did) I looked further and found more of them, a whole bunch of them*gahhhh* I LOST it.
cleaned everything out, threw out all my food!!!
Everyone at my apartment was trying to convince me that it was NOT a roach. Well, there was no telling me any different.
Amid screeches, and moaning Oh My Gods, I
VACCUMED my WHOLE kitchen from top to bottom, bleached the whole kitchen, wiped it down, bleached the cupboards again, took a shower, came down, still wasnt satisfied, washed the whole kitchen again and had another shower.

The next day I looked the bug up and it turned out to be a very common, not at all dangerous saw tooth grain beetle which had apparently come in with a bag of sugar from the grocery store.. They dont even bite.
heh