I have a lot of gross stories from my telephone installer days in NW Detroit, but this one's up there. I was installing a wall phone in a very filthy kitchen. A 6-year-old kid wandered in and proceeded to make himself a bowl of cereal. He opened the sugar bowl and a bunch of roaches scooted away from it. Not missing a beat, he whacked as many as he could reach with the back side of his spoon. He then proceeded to use the same spoon to put sugar on his cereal and then eat it. I just about barfed.