戸建のシェアハウスなんだけど、夜、階段の壁に黒いものが動いてるのを私は見て、それが何者であるかをしっかり確認してから、見て見ぬふりして現実逃避して陽気に一階のリビングで談笑してたら、数十分後、別の子が二階の洗面所で「きゃあああああ」と言ってた。
慌てて駆けつけると、やはり巨大油虫。
でも我がハウスは女性専用で、レディー達は、ぎゃーぎゃー言うばかりで具体的な手を打てずにいて、ある子が殺虫剤を場当たり的に撒き散らしたら、サササーと虫はどこかに消えてしまった。
すると別の子が、その虫が私の部屋方面に向かっていた、と恐ろしいことを言うので、私は半狂乱になったけど、実際もう目に見えるところにそれがいないので、もう何もなかったことにしよう。私の部屋にもいないし、そもそも初めからあんな虫は我が家にはいなかった。ということにした。
だけど２０分後、私が自室で目薬を点してる静寂の中、カサカサ・・・という音が響いて、よもやと思って振り向けば油虫。さっきの殺虫剤が効いたのか、もうフラフラして今にも息絶えそうな様子だけど私には処理できないので、家中の人を呼び集めて、結局、Kちゃんが上手いことやってくれた。Kちゃん様様。
ところで私が何を言いたいかというと、この一連の油虫騒動の間中、ぎゅあぎゃあ言うのと同時に、ものすごく笑ったということで、例えば、虫を見てある子は「イヤぁー！誰か殺してー！私殺せないの！動物愛護なの！」と矛盾をあえて本気で叫んだりしてたし、Hちゃんは、皆が騒いでるのを余所眼に、自分の部屋には虫が絶対に入ってこないようにとドアーをピシャリ！と閉めてて、その時の無慈悲な表情といったら絵画のようだった。
でも皆ゲラゲラ笑って窓がカタカタ鳴って、虫一匹でこんなにも恐怖に怯えること、虫一匹でこんなにも笑えること、なんという豊かさでしょう、と思わないでもなかった。
連呼/ゆず
Over and over/YUZU
なんでもないのに涙が出てくるのは
きっと本気で誰かと笑いたいだけなんだ
What makes me shed tears like this?
Maybe I just need someone to laugh with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRLJZzZ20HAI had known that there was a cockroach on the wall at the stairs in our house.
That's because I saw it. And I ignored it. I just didn't wanna get involved in it.
But, some minutes later, while I was talking with my housemate in the living room, I heard another housemate screaming upstairs. We run to her.
There she was standing around the rest room.
And there IT was. The cockroach. A big one.
We three screamed and did nothing special as we are 'ladies' who knew nothing about how to deal with this kind of situation.
Then another housemate, who is much braver than I, brought insecticide. Unfortunately, it didn' t help much. And we lost the cockroach eventually.
Silent-.
Some seconds later, one said very very scary thing.
'I think I saw it was heading for Eriko's room'
I got mad.
'In my tiny room, I will encounter him sooner or later. What am I gonna do then?'
I thought.
But then, I knew there was nothing I could do because it's already missing. So I persuaded myself that there was no cockroach in my room and not even in our house.
20 minutes later-
In my room, when I was applying eyedrops, which usually makes no noise, I heard some noise. Something was obviously moving. I looked around, fearfully.
There it was again!
Drawing away from it, I called my housemates.
Fortunately, the cockroach was already dying due to the insecticide my housemate used a while ago. And finally, he got caught by my-really-brave-honorable housemate, K-chan.
Okay, what I am saying here is not that my room is dirty enough to call the cockroach, but that it was kinda exciting to get through the situation with my housemates.
We were terrified, but at the same time, we laughed a lot.
We screamed, we laughed, we run away.
We shared the same fear and funniness.
'What a wonderful world!'
Can't I say?