CRICKETS, CRICKETS EVERYWHERE!
My hometown has been invaded by crickets and I am not sure I can handle it. Normally I don't mind crickets, but these must be super-crickets or something because they are unlike any crickets I've encountered before. For one thing, they can FLY. (Since when could crickets fly? And if the answer is "always", then why have I never seen a flying one before?) For another thing, they're by far the biggest crickets I've ever seen.
I have had not one but two close cricket encounters within the last few hours.
The first encounter was in the car. My dad was driving--I was riding shotgun--and suddenly there was a giant cricket on the dashboard. We pulled over and opened the doors in an attempt to shoo the cricket outside, but he decided to jump to the floor instead. Fine, whatever, Mr. Cricket. We were going to release you, but feel free to crawl under the seats and die of starvation if you prefer. Cricket out of mind, we started driving again. One minute I was minding my own business, content that the cricket was chilling on the floor somewhere, and the next I was screaming as it flew past my face, close enough that I could hear its wings flapping. After that I spent the rest of the car ride making sure to keep my mouth shut in case it suddenly decided to fly down my throat. (I used to think that even insects wouldn't be that stupid, but then I saw my mother choke on a fly mid-speech.) For the remainder of the car ride the cricket decided to jump against my dad's leg, and he tried not to twitch every time it touched him.
A few minutes ago, another cricket decided to say hello by flying directly past my ear. I have no idea how it got in the room, or in the house, or why it decided to scare my half out of my mind at 2 in the morning by flying when it could have hopped across the room like a normal cricket.
Oh, and my mother says the crickets are literally everywhere at her work (at least on the first floor; they haven't learned how to use the elevator... yet).
WHERE ARE THESE CRICKETS COMING FROM? They're really starting to creep me out. My skin kept crawling while typing this up. I mean, I guess I should be glad it's not a roach infestation... but at least when I dealt with roaches, I only had to worry about them climbing the walls/ceiling, not leaping at me from halfway across the room.
I have had not one but two close cricket encounters within the last few hours.
The first encounter was in the car. My dad was driving--I was riding shotgun--and suddenly there was a giant cricket on the dashboard. We pulled over and opened the doors in an attempt to shoo the cricket outside, but he decided to jump to the floor instead. Fine, whatever, Mr. Cricket. We were going to release you, but feel free to crawl under the seats and die of starvation if you prefer. Cricket out of mind, we started driving again. One minute I was minding my own business, content that the cricket was chilling on the floor somewhere, and the next I was screaming as it flew past my face, close enough that I could hear its wings flapping. After that I spent the rest of the car ride making sure to keep my mouth shut in case it suddenly decided to fly down my throat. (I used to think that even insects wouldn't be that stupid, but then I saw my mother choke on a fly mid-speech.) For the remainder of the car ride the cricket decided to jump against my dad's leg, and he tried not to twitch every time it touched him.
A few minutes ago, another cricket decided to say hello by flying directly past my ear. I have no idea how it got in the room, or in the house, or why it decided to scare my half out of my mind at 2 in the morning by flying when it could have hopped across the room like a normal cricket.
Oh, and my mother says the crickets are literally everywhere at her work (at least on the first floor; they haven't learned how to use the elevator... yet).
WHERE ARE THESE CRICKETS COMING FROM? They're really starting to creep me out. My skin kept crawling while typing this up. I mean, I guess I should be glad it's not a roach infestation... but at least when I dealt with roaches, I only had to worry about them climbing the walls/ceiling, not leaping at me from halfway across the room.