Creeped out

I opened the door to go out once and a HUGE freaking beetle fell right in front of me. Bigger than a junebug, but it wasn't a junebug. Scared the bejeezus outta me. With one fluid motion, I nabbed the tree clippers we had next to the door and snipped it in two. c.c

Maybe he was the prize?


A few months back I was participating in some SL game and took a swig of my coffee. Something coarse- like a clump of stringy meat was in my mouth. I spit it out... it was a fly! Must have brushed my teeth (and the rest of my mouth) for ten minutes afterwards!


A high school aquaintance told me a worse story. (You've been warned!)

When she lived in the tropics, she reached for what she thought was the doorknob and gave it a firm squeeze. The big snail crunched/squished in her hand!

i like bugs... i mean really like them. used to work in an insectarium. loved that job.. cried when the 14 in centipede died. i still pet bees 8D ...but still....

had this week where i found one of my beetles and later my giant millipede in the bed. not the best way to wake up.

could also tell you stories about cleaning out the 500 member madagascar roach tank... we checked each other really well before we went put to lunch that day.

and then there was the day i dropped a 10 gallon tank of flying biting bugs. they can make you sick for days...flying adults, tiny babies, etc. luckily they were lazy. brushed the mess into a bag and stuck in freezer til they dozed off and i could sort bugs from glass.

it wasn't dull at least! lol

1) I'll take spiders over insects anyday. Roaches are gross. spiders, who eat roaches' guts are less so, but only because the limit 6-legged bugs in the house.

2) Grapenuts won't go soggy for hours. maybe days. Eventually they will cultivate bugs, but no sog. You feel like you're eating rocks, but they won't be soggy rocks.

When I used to live in West Texas, my girlfriend owned a pub. We used to get all kinds of creepy crawlers, giant millipedes, spiders of all sorts, lizards, vinegaroons (yucky stinky), etc. We used to get scorpions in the bathrooms and Black Widow spiders behind the door in the entryway. I really detested having to kill and get rid of them all the time. I don't know that it was so much that they were bugs - when I was a kid I had no problem catching, playing with and even sometimes keeping insects and reptiles as pets for a short time - I think it was more that I knew they were poisonous.

On that note, she (my ex gf) got stung on her big toe by a scorpion one night - we panicked and rushed her to the hospital thinking she was going to die. It turned out that the species of scorpion in that area is not usually deadly. The staff was sort of snickering about our over reaction So we took her home and propped her leg up and watched it turn red and swell for a few hours and then start to go back down. What a way to spend a friday night.

Now for my icky bug story. I was falling asleep one night (this was also when I lived in the desert) and something really large ran across my chest. I freaked out and turned on the lights. I never did find it, so I still have no idea to this day what it was. *shivers*

Then there was the story of the girl with the boil on her face. When she tried to squeeze it, baby spiders came out! (Urban Legend I heard a long time ago)

Okay, I will try Grape Nuts, Kashi, and Oatmeal.

I hate it when odd things invade my sleep at night. I remember waking up in to find something twitching in my palm. It was a mouse. I didn't scream or anything. Just casually, flung my hand real quick, so the bugger flew out and hit the wall. It kinda laid on the floor in a daze a bit before it scooted away.

Bugs never bothered me til I saw ones that lived near the equator. The tropics make them huge. I remember crying hysterically when I saw this giant preying mantis fly around the ceiling. It could seriously eat my eyeball.

Okay ... I wont be able to sleep tonite.

I HATE spiders

I have three horrible horror stories:

1.
When I was pregnant, I was getting dressed, so I picked up my maternity dungaree dress thing and put it on, went down stairs and was just flipping the straps over to do them up, and I looked in the oven, A mirrored oven no less, and what do I see, a fecking HUGE spider crawling over my shoulder, I have NEVER gotten out of clothes so fast in my LIFE, i was tramatised :/ good job I was only 6mths gone or I might have popped there and then!

2.
When I first moved into my boyfs flat in Manchester, it was the stupidest flat EVER, the bloody windows were crap and balcony door didnt shut properly in teh kitchen, anyways I thought as a treat I would make him teh most delicious chocolate cake and OMG it was gorgeous! It tasted divine and LOOKED perfect, I was so proud of myself, so I covered it in foil and left it all nicely wrapped up, bouncing around when he got in shoving him towards the kitchen, only to find my cake was now an anthill :/ after taking hte wrapping off, there must of been around 200 ants NO joke bastards...

3.
Also in the flat from hell, I was lying on the bed and he turned around from the pc and said 'uh spider behind you' so I jumped freaked and saw this spider and immediately told him to kill it, which he did, no more than ten mins later I sat myself back down reading a mag and he turned around again and said 'ha! spider!' to which I said yeah right, he protested he wasn't lying and I turned round and sure enough ANOTHER spider, bigger this time crawling by my head, so again he killed it, and again I sat down and this is NO joke, this happened TWO more times, each time the spider got a lil bigger so in the end I figured that I'd go do some ironing in the spare room, I was doing the ironing all happy and away from the crawlies and I looked up and FECK ME, there was a spider on the wall the size of a side plate, seriously it was the biggest spider I have EVER seen, I was almost crying by this point and begging the spider gods to STOP sending them after me I think it's cos we kept killing them, anyway this was even too big for him and he hoovered it up, got me outta hoovering ever again

Moral is DON'T kill them, they're older, bigger and scarier siblings come back to get you

Oh and I insisted we move out too

Spiders are cool. They won't hurt you and they eat the nastier bugs that DO.

I once had a Mexican redleg tarantula that was seriously the size of my hand. It was a beautiful animal, and it would take crickets from me. I'd let it run around the place every once in a while (careful where I stepped when I did), and I never saw any bugs at all. It used to scare dogs and cats and blue-haired women. I named it Michelina after a girlfriend who had a similar personality and also liked to consume things whole.

I haven't been afraid of many things since. Girlfriends, yes.

I prefer my cereal soggy, so I can't help with your request. Sorry.

Lash, WTG on the creepy spider story!

I have one for ya too...

My wife was home one day cleaning, and she spots a HUGE spider on the floor of our foyer (she describes it as the size of a post-it note! ). Well, she was sensible enough to get a clear plastic cup and capture it, but then she couldn't figure out how to get it outside.... WELL, she gets a magazine to try to slip under the cup, and as soon as the spider moves, HUNDREDS of BABY SPIDERS burst off of the mama's abdomen and start crawling everywhere!

Well needless to say, she FREAKS and starts wailing on them with her shoe... she got MOST of em, but quite a few of the babies got away under our baseboards! Turns out what she found was a WOLF SPIDER, whose babies cling to the mother after they come out of the egg sac. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! Well, We had a spider problem for months afterwards... I was killing 3-4 a day until winter arrived and it got pretty cold out. I can only pray that they weren't fruitful and multiplied only to have an even bigger problem THIS year!

OHH and as for cereal that stays crunchy, I definitely like Froot Loops too, or Cocoa Puffs, but if you aren't into the sugar cereals, try Crispix or even Honey Bunches of Oats. Or if you are a sado-masochist, Grape-Nuts (but even they get soggy after a time!)

Haha!

Those are dust mites, well some kind of mite, but not spiders.

I dunno what it is with me and spiders... I despise the leggy, crawly, web-dangly types, but I'm pretty ok with jumping spiders and their ilk...

The reason why I hate leggy, crawly, web-dangly types is because always, always they remain hidden, no matter what... until I get in the shower. Then they immediately make a bee-line for the ceiling directly above me in the shower, and sit there, staring at me with those beady little eyes of theirs, and I just know they're thinking, "I could so jump on your head right now! You're all naked and feeling vulnerable! I could do it, I really could!" They just know I'm not gonna squish 'em while I'm like, right under them all nakey, 'cause I mean... what if I miss? It could fall on me, and crawl around on me! God I hate that!

Stupid spiders.

What did my head in as a child who took things very literally was trying to figure out why dust bunnies didn't morphously resemble... rabbits.

I was at work about 10 years ago, talking to a friend, and I got a Payday candy bar out of a vending machine, unwrapped it and raised it to my mouth, not really looking at it.

Right as I was about to bite into it, I semi-focused on it and saw something move. I pulled it away from my mouth and looked, and it was covered in what looked like cobwebs and dirt, and there was the off-white larva/maggot thing crawling along it!!!

I didn't eat another Payday candy bar for a year or so, and when I do now, I always inspect them carefully.

Oh yeah... Eyelash mites!

LOL YES!

I remember when I was little, my aunt said there were dust bunnies under her bed. She pointed to the fuzzy things underneath. And when she left the room, I grabbed a handful and cuddled them. I sneezed and cried when I saw pieces of fluff flying everywhere. I thought I killed it. Hahahaha!!!! Man was I stupid.

I really hated it when that happened. I'd have to stop the shower. Tiny ones I don't care about, but when they are big wolf spiders that could hump my face, that's when I'm so out of there. I'd rather bathe myself using a teacup and a sink.

I used to freak out when I saw little lizards on the ceiling, but one actually chased a spider down and snacked on it. I started coaxing them in the bathroom with me after that.

Awww, darn it! I wish we had ceiling lizards here... I've always thought that'd be just so cool! Knowing my luck, of course, they'd probably all crawl onto the ceiling over the shower while I'm in there, and poop on me or something.

Stupid lizards.

awwww that story's so cute it's like a fuzzy kitten in word form. i'ma cuddle that story all nite.

Ceiling Lizards are so cool. Mine hide behind pictures and all the pictures in my house are off kilter because my cats are always knocking them around trying to get the lizards hiding behind them.

Where I live, you just open up your door to bring in groceries and two or three little lizards run into your house. The only time that I was a little disconcerted was when I was sound asleep and my cat knocked one off of the curtain and it fell directly onto my head. It was a little freaky to wake up that way. Poor lizard was more startled than I was though.

I hate you, Cross. You have me wanting to sand my face off.

I got home from work one day in August (2 days after moving into an apartment) tossed my stuff onto the spot where my PC desk would be, grabbed a Dew, popped in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance into the GameBoy Advance player, turned on the TV, grabbed the controller and sat up against the wall. I commence playing finishing off a battle I had started earlier.

A ladybug flies past the screen and lands on the wall to my right.

"Oooh! They mean good luck." I thought and turned my attention back to the game. I hear a bug in the lamp overhead look up, look along the edge of the ceiling and the wall, down the corner of the wall, look to my left, along the ceiling again, down another corner, and jumped to my feet running out of the apartment towards the landlord's place 1/4th a mile away.

Ladybugs were ALL OVER THE APARTMENT'S LIVINGROOM AND KITCHEN.

The landlord spent 4 hours vacuuming up the ladybugs with an industrial vacuum. ^^

Am I the only one who not only accepts soggy cereal, but prefers it?

I guess I really am some kind of freak.

BTW, spiders (even little ones) creep me out, but not ants (for instance), although they're actually rather similar in appearance. I think it's because I've been programmed (from a young age) to think that ants are productive and co-operative, and therefore "good", while spiders are loners who prey on the "weak" with their tricksy webs and stuff, and are thus "bad". *shrug*