No shit, there I was... in the kitchen. with a knife... ok, no knife.

[lagilman]

So there I was, sorting though a large bunch of basil, and I looked down and there was a THREE INCH LONG INSECT ON MY HAND.

And I looked at it and go "dude, you are so very very lost."

We then had a few minutes of negotiation (read: me trying to get him to stay still long enough to get to the open window) before he was removed to a hopefully more hospitable neighborhood.

There are many things that make me give out girly shrieks. Locusts (or any of the grasshopper/cricket variants) ain't it.

I do, however, admit to being...rather startled.


Still. For fresh basil, I'll wing-wrassle a few bugs...

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I'll say Ms. Cricket, in the Kitchen, with the Knife.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Pics or it didn't happen!
(Oh, I'm sure it did happen; I just wanted to see a photo of the three-inch-long locust-like thing)

[elsceetaria.livejournal.com]

Fresh basil - yum.

Locusts/grasshoppes/whatever aren't too bad. Cockroaches on the other hand. . .

[threeoutside.livejournal.com]

I had a similar event with an inch-long (including legs) black spider last night, in the bathroom. Being a biologist I admire spiders and appreciate their role in ecology. Being a homeowner and an arachniphobe, I most emphatically DO NOT WANT them in my house. They frikkin' FREAK ME OUT indoors. However, I managed to get it into a cup and transport it to the nearest window without a screen, and outside. Then I went EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! for about ten minutes and washed my hands raw and forcibly removed my mind from the subject (by reading some Libriomancer, heh).

[lagilman]

Spiders eat mosquitos. Therefore, non-lethal spiders will always be live-and-let-live in my household. However, I would appreciate it if they stay out of the bed/off the sofa, and depart the shower before I get in, thank you....

(I was bit by a black widow (male) who got into the house, back when I lived in NJ. I bear no grudge but I did kill the SOB in pure surprised reaction. I had TOLD the ex that putting the woodpile against the external wall was a Bad Idea...)