Never Lick an Envelope!
A woman was working in a post office in California.
One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of
Using a sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her tongue.
A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She
went to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not
sore
or anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell
more, and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat.
She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor
took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for
minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach
crawled out!!!!
There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the envelope. The egg was
able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and moist...
This is a true story reported on CNN
Andy Hume wrote:
Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn't believe
the....things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I
haven't licked an envelope for years!"
I used to work for a print shop(32 years ago) and we were told
NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go
into storage and pull out 2500 envelopes that were already printed and
saw several squads of cockroaches roaming around inside a couple of
boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.
fact or fiction???
