Maybe the West Coast is blessed to be free of these cursed things, but I had no idea what it was when I firstw one. We just called them “many-legged things.” If I was just a tiny bit less dumb, I’d have made the connection with “centipede,” but I had a different mental image of what centipedes looked like, and it was less horrific than this.
I’ve had a hornet under my t-shirt stinging me repeatedly, and calmly walked back outside and removed my shirt to be rid of it. I pick up spiders with my bare hands, to relocated them for my wife. My point is that I’m not normally timid with bugs. But these things…
This is true. It was both shocking and alarming how fast it moved when I first spotted one in my room after moving to the east coast.
I’d never seen one before moving to PA!
Maybe the West Coast is blessed to be free of these cursed things, but I had no idea what it was when I firstw one. We just called them “many-legged things.” If I was just a tiny bit less dumb, I’d have made the connection with “centipede,” but I had a different mental image of what centipedes looked like, and it was less horrific than this.
I’ve had a hornet under my t-shirt stinging me repeatedly, and calmly walked back outside and removed my shirt to be rid of it. I pick up spiders with my bare hands, to relocated them for my wife. My point is that I’m not normally timid with bugs. But these things…