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thenewgreen  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
Do you feel better now that you've let the world know that you kill baby crickets? infanticide-inceticide style http://hubski.com/pub?id=19753

I wonder if there was some sort of childhood moment that made you so terrified of bugs?

My bug story:

I was working at a nice restaurant as a manager. There were banquette tables that were against the wall. Table 50 had 4 people at it that were all busily eating their meals. I looked at them, nodded and smiled. Then I noticed that next to one of the woman's head on the wall was a giant cockroach, at least 2-3 inches long. -A big one. I remained calm, grabbed one of our napkins and walked over to the table. As I asked,

    "how is the food this evening"
, I leaned against the wall casually with the napkin in my hand and squashed the bug in it. They replied,
    "great, every things great"
, I nodded walked away and threw the napkin in the dumpster outside.

Had they seen the roach, there certainly would have been screams and it would have made a scene and likely had an impact on future business. I earned my paycheck that day.

I hate cockroaches, it took all my willpower to do that.





insomniasexx  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My most terrifying bug encounter happened during my college days - sophomore year. I was living in NYC in a shithole "duplex" in west village. Our apartment covered the first floor and basement the back door from the basement was next to a sushi restaurant's back door. Luckily, we were pretty routinely sprayed for bugs so usually I only found a dead roach every month or so. We made sure to keep our place very clean.

I was living with a 22 year old, straight, male actor. Very hipster. His prescription glasses were Ray Bans. Also, I'm a girl.

It's about 9pm on a Friday and I'm drunk. I was downstairs in my room and pull myself away from my online activities to take a much needed piss. I sit down on the toilet. Suddenly BAM ping pong ping pong - there is a GIANT FLYING ROACH-SPIDER HOPPING/COLLIDING around my tiny NYC bathroom. The way the bathroom was set up the toilet sat in a little nook with tile walls on both sides. Imagine that shit ping ponging around your face as you are taking a drunk piss.

So, naturally, I fall out the bathroom door, screaming, still pissing, making a mess all over myself and the floor. My roommate's bedroom was the door right next to the bathroom door and I was hoping he would rescue me. Instead he says, "What's going on?"

"What's going on?!?!? I'M BEING ATTACKED BY A HUGE FLYING SPIDER ROACH AND I'M ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU NEED TO SAVE ME!"

I hear nothing from him. And then, a muffled moaning from his shitty computer speakers. He's fapping. He's fucking fapping while I'm about 2 seconds from being killed. I pull up my pants and, about 4 octaves higher than my already annoyingly female voice, "There's a huge bug flying around in the bathroom."

Silence.

"Well where is it?"

"In the bathroom."

"Okay..."

I give up. I headed downstairs to take a valium, chain smoke a couple cigarettes, continue drinking, and tell all my internet buddies about my adventure.

10 minutes pass. My heart beat has returned to normal. And then I hear, thump thump BANG SMASH… CRASH SLAM! I race upstairs to find my roomie, in his tight little Hulk briefs, still with a semi from the fap session, sitting on the floor looking terrified. I chastise myself for leaving my phone downstairs. That would be a photo. He looks up at me and says "I found your bug."

After a lot of nervous laughter, a mission for a cup and a notecard, a lot of psyching ourselves up, two shots of vodka each, and an embarrassingly large amount of squealing we brave the bathroom. A couple of tries and a lot of screeching and we've managed to capture the thing. This cup is a normal sized plastic cup. Fuck everything about this thing. Apparently, it's a cricket. Or the Cloverfield monster.

So now we are both still dressed in nighttime clothes. For him, shirtless with superhero briefs. For me, a pair of bootyshorts and a white wifebeater. Now that we have it captured we have to do something with it. Still not thinking clearly and embarrassingly focused on screeching, we hop / run out the front door of our apartment, down the hallway, outside the apartment building and onto a very busy NYC street. We hesitate to let the crowd of drunks walk by us and promptly throw the bug, cup and notecard as far as we possibly can. Once the dust had settled, we were standing on the street, half naked, realizing neither of us had grabbed our keys.

TL;DR: my roomie and I are pussies & I met the cloverfield monster

_refugee_  ·  3914 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that is actually a spider cricket, which is a special kind of awfully terrifying.

thenewgreen  ·  3914 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In the last home we lived in there were many spider crickets. They're actually very docile and do their best to avoid people. They can jump really high, which is startling at first because you think it's a spider. Anyways, nothing to be afraid of.

thenewgreen  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I've always sort of viewed crickets in the Disney sense, you know Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio, so they don't really bother me. Perhaps if Disney had made a movie about a cockroach that guides a wooden puppet through the perils of the world and ultimately towards becoming human, I wouldn't have such a problem with roaches either.

Seeing that cute little cricket in the glass definitely makes me wonder how such a small, passive creature could stir anyone to fall off their toilet and pee all over themselves ;-) Pretty funny.

insomniasexx  ·  4653 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You're kind of a fucker, you know that? :P
caio  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Maybe there was. Or maybe it's just because they look like goddamn multi-legged winged aliens!

Sorry, sorry.

Smooth move with the cockroach.

thenewgreen  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'm not knocking you, I'm actually not very fond of insects either unless they're behind glass. I'm definitely not the kind of guy that could hold a Six-Legged Giant Stick Insect in my hand and have a giant smile on my face.
caio  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I know, friend.

How about a Six-Legged Giant Black Beetle? http://hubski.com/pub?id=15669

thenewgreen  ·  4654 days ago  ·  link  ·  
AgH! No thank you. I'm about to hit the pillow, don't need that in my subconscious. Goodnight, pal.