My Favourite New Urban Legend.

I like a good Urban Legend even if 99% of times they’re clearly bollocks. Here my favourite new one at the moment, Polybius. Hasn’t beaten my all time favourite about a woman who worked in a post room of a business who tongue suddenly started to swell up bigger every day until she had to go to a Doctor. They couldn’t work out what was wrong and so ran test but everything checked out while her tongue got bigger and bigger. In the end they sent her for an x-ray and when they got it back they had to rush the woman into the operating theatre and remove what turned out to be a live, giant Cockroach that had been growing in her tongue. No one could understand how it had got there until a few months later when another lady from the same office came in with the same problem. Swelling tongue with a giant Cockroach growing inside that had to be cut out. They started to figure out the problem when it turned out they both worked in the same post room. They’re little post room in the office was in the basement and Cockroaches were not uncommon. They worked out that the Cockroaches liked to eat the glue on the envelopes they kept in the post room. When the lady would send out letters they’d have to lick the sticky bits that the Cockroaches liked to eat and because the Roaches spent so long on those envelopes sometimes they’d lay they’re eggs there. While licking hundreds of envelopes over time they would often get paper cuts on they’re tongues from licking the envelopes without care. The Cockroaches eggs would get into these cuts and then the wound would heal and they’d grow inside these Lady’s tongues. And then you finish by pointing out that most envelopes are at some point kept in giant warehouses in bulk waiting to be packaged and at night Cockroaches crawl over them and try and eat the glue on the back.