favorite cafe no more!

on friday night, bookclub met once again. there were 5 of us and we met at gallery espresso to talk about "the bride price" by buchi emecheta. it was an okay book. i didn't hate it, but i didn't love it. it was a slow starter, and you don't care about the main character until about 70 pages before the end. then all this stuff happens and you get really into the book. then it ends and you wish the the whole book was like that...

anyway, we ordered the cheese board, some wine, pita chips, cakes, cookies and were happily munching and talking away. by the end of our "meal," some people over next to us were very unhappy and looking at the floor. that's when we found out that there was an apparently large palmetto bug (aka COCKROACH) scurrying across the floor just a little way from us. i hate cockroaches...

one palmetto bug under some rugs and furniture in a cafe might be something to overlook down here in savannah. (you see now how i've become a little desensitized to the idea of them). you see, they are outdoor cockroaches, not the same at all as the ones we have up north. they do not infest so-called dirty places. they come inside through cracks in the walls or around doors, mainly looking for water. in fact, most everyone around the cockroach just watched it scurry away--no one even tried to kill it. they were just laughing about it. the upset people just moved their seats to the other side of the cafe. the problem comes next... when jessica said about 10 minutes later "um, maybe i shouldn't tell you what i just saw."

the ceiling of gallery espresso is made of wood beams. there was a guy across the way from us, with his girlfriend on his laptop. jessica said one fell off the ceiling onto his head. he brushed it off. jessica told us that, and we all got up and went to sit outside. and as we were bussing our stuff up to the front, jessica said she saw it sitting on his bag! oh no! so the problem was that there were multiple cockroaches and that they were brazen enough to be around people and in the light. this all means that they probably do have a palmetto bug problem--that the cafe is not sealed well from the outside and that they don't spray for them or something. i will never go back there again! i felt so dirty and creepy!

but our next book is "special topics in calamity physics." and i hear it's quite good, so i'm looking forward to that.