In the first week of fourth grade I bit into my school lunch cheeseburger, and thus a palmetto bug.
I’d just moved to Florida a month before and had never seen one before. It was the biggest bug I had ever seen. I almost got in trouble for screaming as loud as I did in the cafeteria, but the lunch monitor was kind when I told her, and got me an apple juice.
I never ate a school lunch that came in a wrapper again.