Freaking Me Out

“So I woke up the other morning and found one of these gigantic creepy crawlies on the wall over my bed. I was totally freaked out. Then I found one on the kitchen floor. I think my house has been invaded. Turns out it is a common centipede.


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“I can't blame them for wanting to be over your bed ....”

“Yikes, CD!

The last time I was freaked out in the woods was camping in the Sipsey with my floorless Henry Shires TarpTent. I was awakened in the night by big ugly centipedes crawling on the inside of the tent. I made a sewn in floor the next week.”

“LOL @ Hyway and Stovie. I am not usually freaked out by bugs, but dang, that thing just gave me the heebie jeebies. I smacked it with my bedroom slipper and now I've got bug guts all over the wall. At least it's dead!”

“I only count 30 legs, not 100, on this centipede. False advertising!!”

“Ha, that's right! What the heck? I read that they have fewer legs when they are little. Maybe they get up to 100 legs as they grow.”

“Picky, picky....
The important thing is it's dead.
Those things crawing over you at night might kill you! ;-)”

“Oh gawd, I wonder if there are more in my room??????? Crap, I am not going to be able to sleep tonight. I think I am going to have to go sleep outside in my tent to get away from these bugs.”

“I've heard that those things can crawl into your ear while you sleep and lay eggs in your brain. Not to make you worry or anything....”

“Centipedes have a very mean, painful venomous bite, too.”

“Some friends I got around here!!!!! lol

I think I will get one of those bug bombs and set it off. That ought to kill the little bastards.”

“Okay, here's something else to think about:

An excerpt from my favorite weekly news update, Harper's Weekly:

James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of DNA, said that while he wishes everyone were equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true." Lynn Cheney announced that her husband and Barack Obama are eighth cousins. "Every family," said the Obama campaign, "has a black sheep." A New York man was arrested after wearing a stolen Rolex watch to his parole meeting, an Ohio woman stood accused of digging up her ex-boyfriend's grave and stealing his ashes, and a Virginia woman was fined for attacking a Comcast store with a hammer after the company cut off her phone and Internet connections. "I smashed a keyboard, knocked over a monitor and I went to hit the telephone," she said. "I figured, 'Hey, my telephone is screwed up, so is yours.'" A New Jersey woman sent 80,000 cans of Silly String, which can locate trip wires, to U.S. troops in Iraq; a military spokesperson thanked her but admitted that soldiers don't use as much Silly String today as they did at the beginning of the war. Forty-nine percent of New Jersey residents admitted they'd rather live somewhere else. Taku the killer whale died unexpectedly at the San Antonio SeaWorld, 5 of the world's 350 remaining Asiatic Lions were found dead next to an electric fence in India, and the curator of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum asked the public to donate pubic crabs, claiming that their population was dwindling as a result of Brazilian waxes. "When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction. Pubic lice," he explained, "can't live without pubic hair."”

“I've heard that those things can crawl into your ear while you sleep and lay eggs in your brain. Not to make you worry or anything....”
GhoulderMan
3:06:12 PM
10/23/07

someone remembers the old Twilight Zone show about the earwitch ;)”

“It's true, CD! Watch out for your ears! ;-)
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“You need a friend like me, I'll come over every night just as you get ready for bed and thoroughly search your room and your body for centipedes.”

“and earwigs grow hair in your ear canal....”