Found it dead in my dishes

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    1 year ago

    Alive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.

    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…