Today, during a field trip to the Butterfly Pavilion, I bought a pair of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches for the kids.



At the time it seemed kind of fun and cool, but on the way home it hit me. I paid money for roaches. People pay money to get RID of roaches. What was I thinking?

I'm sure it will turn out to be fine, and a great thing for the kids. The man at the gift shop assures me they are both female, so as long as he knows what he's talking about and they weren't knocked up when I got them we should be OK. (Please Lord.) Oh, and I guess as long as they didn't use any amphibian DNA while they were producing them, because as we all know life, uh, finds a way...