AsianBomb777 said:

Okay, I'll fess up. Crickets. I hate crickets, or locusts or grasshopers (oh my!) I was 13 and I went to Mexico with my dad. The kids in this little ranch found out about my fear. One came up to me, made a fist and said "Here, look." I was like "Oh what is it." The next thing, picture a 6 year old girl running off screaming into the night.

While I was running the rest of the kids were running after me and I could feel something hitting my back. YES, they were throwing them at me.


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FruitToAttractBears said:

Ahh, memories. Those fuckers used to be all up in my apartment in Chicago. I think they lived in the ivy that grew on the outside of the building & around the windows. I hated them. Here's what you do: go to the hardware store and buy some chemical spray for centipedes. When you see 'em spray just enought to get them to run back to their nest where they'll die. Once it dies, the others will cannibalize it and ingest the poison too. (That's what the guy at the hardware store told me.) I never followed that train of thought though--I would just spray 'em until their legs all fell off and they shriveled up into a ball. Then flush! (Or industrial strength hair spray might slow it down enough for you to smash it.)

I really hated them b/c they would always be up in the corners by the windows (I had high ceilings) and when I'd come home at night & turn on the lights--surprise! And OMG, my boyfriend hated them worse than me. He'd jump and scream like a damn girl when one would run across the floor. I always had to be the one to kill them.

BUT I console(d) myself by remembering that centipedes like to live in damp places (e.g. ivy, plants) not like roaches that you get from not keeping a clean apartment. Not that I want either, but I would rather have centipedes any day over roaches...

AsianBomb777 said:

Actually, it's not pretty at all because when you see them it looks like the legs are hair. It's like a fast moving, tiny, hairy alien.

The first time I saw one, I was pointing at it yelling, "What are you???".

They are truly fucking gross.

JustErin said:

When I was in France a few years ago I woke up one morning and found a gazillion little legs spread out on my sheet and stuck in the hair on my chest among other places. Turns out I had rolled around in my sleep and crushed one of those things. Before going to sleep the next evening I sprayed a whole can of bugspray along the side of the bed, which I think made me sick because the next morning I was puking for an hour.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Crickets and grasshoppers used to scare me too when I was little.....only because they'd jump out of nowhere. Me being the semi- superstitious person that I am, I never intentially kill crickets in fear of having bad luck.