Buggity-boo-blahhh!!

[thedarksiren2]

For all intents and purposes, it should be known that I am fairly kind to all creatures on this earth, or, I try to be anyway. This includes, but is in no way limited to, bugs. I like them, all sorts for all kinds of reasons. Spiders can get under my skin, so to speak, but I pretty much leave them alone so long as they are not in the shower or in my bedroom.

However...

there is one kind of bug that I simply cannot stand. Just the thought of the thing makes my toes curl and I start doing idiotic girl-dances on chairs. Seriously...just ask wraptboy.

Centipedes...walking eyelashes, only running at lightning-speed.
BLEH!!!!

I went to brush my teeth tonight and when I moved something on the counter, a centipede strode on out from behind a bottle. Yes, it all but sauntered! It didn't run, like they usually do. Oh no! It felt the need to sway it's nastiness before my horrified eyes, almost causing me to gag on toothpaste.

I came running out, yelling and flailing, toothbrush still in my mouth so it was a garbled cry for help.

Systematically, wraptboy moved items from a shelf, and when the creature was ever-so-slightly revealed, he sprayed it with shower cleaner. Its body curled toward the ceiling, but it kept going, like a walking U...if the thing were actually a fake eyelash, it'd have been a supermodel's wet dream!

I wound up assisting in the squashing festivities.

Later, I am still all icky-feely-blech. I peed with the bathroom door open, just to be sure I had an easy exodus should another nasty saunter by.

Yeah. Nasty critters. Blech.
Millipede's do not bother me, and I am completely enamored by butterflies, cicadas and crickets. Praying Mantis as well...they have the best Ninja style of all!

At any rate, sleep was a great plan until this happened. Now I am too wired to even try.

*shivers*

Comments

I knew I loved you for a reason!

[poliwitch.livejournal.com]

AMen sister!!!!

I *uggh* HATE those things, I have very bad childhood memories of those puppies.

Good to know I am not alone.

[theswede.livejournal.com]

I learned to respect centipedes and spiders when I was in Africa. Someday I'll tell you the story, but ... well, not now. ;)

[love-power.livejournal.com]

Did you know: The house centipede, which you have described, can live up to six (6) (!) years.

They were always one of the very few bugs that bothered me, after I found one about 4 inches long under a rock while hunting for worms as a kid. That, and the time there was another of equal size in my bathtub when I was about four.

Most people run away from them or try to kill them from a distance; my strategy has always been to smash them barehanded so they wouldn't get away.

However, from now on I think I'm going to treat them differently. They hunt cockroaches! That makes them pretty cool. They are also related to lobster and shrimp and not insects. Perhaps if we could view them as tiny terrestrial predator lobsters, they'd somehow seem cute.

Either that, or the next time I see a really big one, I'll dip it in some drawn butter and see how it tastes.

[orangeale.livejournal.com]

when i lived in chicago, i lived with centipedes so big, i coulda declared them as dependents on my taxes.
:) it was a losing battle because my roomate would never kill them, but i squashed so many with library books, im surprised they didnt start up a centipede fine.