WHAT IS IT??!?!?!?!Originally uploaded by CadyLy
This may say a lot about me. I am getting ready to go to bed, since I have to get up freakishly early in the morning (even for me, who normally sets the alarm for 4:30 am). I step out of my bedroom for a minute and happen to catch site of this…is it a bug? On the door.
Eyes get huge. What is the first thing I do?
Grab my camera.
That’s right, folks. I need a picture of this sucker. Because if it manages to kill me, at least someone will be able to download my picture and see the culprit.
I come back with the camera — and he’s gone! Aaaahhh! Monster bug on the loose!! Oh no! Oh no! Panic sets in.
Then, I see him running across the floor. Aaaaahhhhh! He’s faster than a cockroach — and *those* suckers can move! Finally, he ends up on the wall in the living room. I swap the camera for the Lysol/Windex. He’s too fast to risk having him on the loose where he might decide to eat me.
I squirt him repeatedly. He seems to not move for a little while. Oh, good. This stuff can kill cockroaches, but sometimes it takes a bit of time. THEN…. HE STARTS MOVING! Like a bad horror flick, the monster has come back to life — and just when you were beginning to catch your breath.
He runs again and for a moment I have lost him. Oh, no. Oh, no. In my head, I am screaming. I pull out the couch, trying to see if he escaped under there.
Finally, I catch up to him on the wall again. Thank You, Jesus, for Niki, who kept an eye on the Evil Bug and let me know where he was lurking. I am so glad that I bought new shoes recently, because I could grab my *old* shoe and crack the sucker with it. I may have dented the wall…but I wanted to make certain that the little beastie was dead.
So, now the bug guts are in the trash. I have been sanitized. And, the couch is back where it should be. And it’s time again for me to try and go to bed. I’m almost over my panic. Not quite, so don’t sneak up on me just yet.
Have a good night! And please pray for me that he doesn’t have any relatives!
What was that thing???
5 responses so far ↓
1 Stacy // Jun 26, 2008 at 6:54 am
I **think** that’s a house centipede…though the ones I’ve seen are mostly a rust color. That would be my guess though. I’m pretty sure they’re harmless, but check ‘em out online. :-)
2 Jaibee // Jun 26, 2008 at 7:00 am
Thanks! I actually did check Google earlier this morning, and came to the same thing. They have fangs and venom, and if they bite you it’s like a minor bee sting — although they note that they are unlikely to bite humans, unless provoked. They also say they are actually a very beneficial bug to have, since they eat all the other bugs. Still creeps me out. Yuk.
3 Kasia // Jun 26, 2008 at 7:28 am
Eeuw. I’m nauseated just looking at that…that…THING. Good for you for killing it!
Vacuum cleaners are also good for bugs, assuming you use a full-power one and not a dustbuster kind of thing. My aunt once actually went through the contents of the vacuum cleaner bag to make SURE that the bugs and spiders she vacuumed up were dead - after all, who wants ‘em crawling out of the vacuum? - and found bug parts. So the vacuum destroys ‘em.
I love my vacuum.
4 Jill // Jun 26, 2008 at 1:42 pm
We had one of those suckers in our house once too! It gives me the willies all over again just looking at the picture. (shudder)
Ours appeared the night after we moved into our current house. I remember that the hubby and I had just sat down after moving furniture around all day and we were exhausted.
Suddenly this thing came out from under the couch where I was sitting and went racing across the room towards hubby — it was seriously gross, sick and wrong kinda huge and boy was it FAST.
The situation for me was both terrifying and hysterically funny as hubby jumped up onto the back of the chair he had been sitting on and screamed like a girl in a horror flick! It was after all, going in his direction and seemed capable of jumping - I know he was taking precautions. Poor guy. But I have NEVER seen that man move that fast!
It disappeared into the fireplace (which now has doors) and we’ve never seen anything like it since, thank you Jesus.
I know hubby sprayed bug and spider killer stuff everywhere after that too.
We do not like bugga-biggies in our space.
5 Jaibee // Jun 26, 2008 at 2:29 pm
That would have been funny to see Rick jump like that. I’m usually tough in most situation, but give me a FAST-MOVING bug (or dog, or whatever) and see me scream, point, and look for the nearest male to KILL IT! To see a boy, who is supposed to be defending me from all the ills of the world, scream and hide — makes me laugh (as long as I am not the one in danger).
See how evil I still am? Good thing Kasia’s pure enough to cover me, too, eh? And that Jesus instituted Reconciliation…. :) I keep saying I’m messed up on TOB…. I wasn’t lying. :)
Wow. What a welcome into your new home. I would have seriously considered moving right back out…. You got guts!
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