T-55 and counting

[truepenny]

Today: 1,848 2,202 words (I didn't think I was gonna get those extra 600, and then I did. Ha!)

Also, I have lived up to my household position of Wicked Queen. I killed the creepy-crawly the ninjas had cornered under the piano. (but it was the BEST toy! biPED!)

I don't know what the fuck those things are, but they have Too Many Legs.

Comments

[cassandraterra.livejournal.com]

They always do.

*Shudders*

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Friends of mine call them "triremes." (http://www.indepthinfo.com/salamis/images/triremes.jpg)

We had one yesterday, too. In the bathtub. Julian rescued me.

[kate_nepveu]

Are they reddish-brown with long thin feelers at front and back? And freakishly fast?

If so, they're house centipedes, and my personal bane.

Also, go, word count!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Check on the long thin feelers, but they're mostly sort of grayish?

[kate_nepveu]

I'm not feeling brave enough to image-Google house centipedes to see if they come in gray. Regardless, too many legs = ick.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I am not even remotely suggesting that you look at the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_centipede), but it does kind of prove us both right.

I need an icon for being completely grossed out.

[kate_nepveu]

After reading your story below, I do too.

*shudder*

THE BUGS

[muneraven.livejournal.com]

Are they sort of large short, fat centipedes? And sort of translucent gray? We have those in Minnesota and they are indeed creepy-looking. And the cats love to watch them, even chase them, but they don't actually go after them to do them in . . .I'm thinking they don't taste good.

I used to hate them, but one day I watched one scurry from under one piece of furniture to another and it ran so fast that its front half came up off the ground. It made me laugh, and once I laugh at something it loses a lot of its ability to gross me out. Plus the little critter was far more scared of being seen than I am of seeing it. So now I try to live and let live unless the bug is REALLY invading my space. Stay away from places I eat and hang out . . .but if you want the space under the washing machine in the basement, that's ok. LOL.

But I let a mouse live in my garage, too. :-P

Re: THE BUGS

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

One of the times we moved during my grad school career, we moved into a house that had been occupied by undergraduate boys. Aside from flotsam from their porn collection in the closet, they left house centipedes taped to the bathroom walls.

No, I'm really not kidding.

The day we moved in, I had a live one (a house centipede, not an undergraduate boy) fall on me while I was using the bathroom for its most private purpose. I understand they heard the scream in Milwaukee.