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I just saw one in my bathroom. I’ve been living in a town duplex for about 8 months and when I first saw one it was dead and on my bathroom sink. I walked right out of the bathroom to my mother and said “there’s a really big scary dead bug on the sink”. She said that my step dad had gone running into her the night before screaming that we had cockroaches in the house and that it tried to attack him and he hated living here. My mom told him to leave it there so I could identify it. She really thought he was just looking for a reason to complain because we are living here only due to the fact that our house burned down. I, being the insect expert of the family, always have to do any job involving bugs. I normally don’t mind this at all because I used to breed spiders and insects to feed them. It is hard to find a creepy crawly bug that makes me shudder. So when I so this guy, I was mortified. They are the only insects that have ever given me the creeps this much. I’m always looking over my shoulder and silently freaking out in my head. I had never even seen one until I moved here. Now you’re telling me they can live for years?? Oh my! I’ve had spiders live for years so it doesn’t surprise me. They always seem to be in my bathroom too. And I figured out right away that they liked the night because I too am up at night often and when I go into the bathroom and turn on the light I often see one of the grotesque creatures caught in deviance. That’s usually when I just close the door and walk away. But since my bedroom is right next to the bathroom, and there is that stupid crack in-between the floor and the door…. cry . I’m losing sleep cause of these guys (like right now). This fear probably wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t one night been lying in but and heard a scuttling sound, turning on my light to investigate just in time to see a 2 inch one of these scuttling right at me gonk *shudders* yeah, I ran out of the room and slept in the living room that night…barely. Right now, since I just saw one, I have the heeby jeebies. So I ran to my computer, at last, and typed in centipede in images to see if that’s what they really were. And I was exactly right. I’m glad I found your site and I’m also horrified by it --- up to 5 years life span!!! Can’t get rid of them!!!!! Oh my!! But you see, I have another problem with having these be the only bugs I fear and them being my infestation… I’m a vegetarian. And I really don’t like killing bugs, especially since I’ve had so much experience with them, I loved my spiders…. And it just feels so wrong to me to kill them. I don’t like killing crying , I’m an avid anti-war and violence activist…. I’m your regular tree huggin’, poetry readin’, moon dancin’, peace lovin’, long haired, bare footed hippie. Which I don’t actually like being called, but it’s hard to deny the evidence. So how can I kill one of these poor little defenseless ………. BIG SCARY HORRIFYING RUINING MY LIFE BUGS scream gonk !!!!! cry I’m torn. I just don’t know what to do sweatdrop . And because I am the bug person of the house hold and everyone else is scared of them too it’s my job to take care of them and blah blah blah. *sigh* So when I wont kill one, but I don’t want someone else to kill it, but I’m to scared to try and catch one to let it outside somewhere 17 blocks away would be my minimum, they make fun of me for being scared redface . It’s alright that they are scared because they aren’t the bug person. All this writing and thinking about them is freaking me out hardcore…an ant just walked by me and I freaked cause I thought it was one of THEM. I think when I’m done with this I’m going to go run to my room, turn on the fan (I think this detours them a bit, but it’s not solid, it mostly comforts me), put on my headphones supper loud so I wont hear any scuttling, and try to rock and cry myself to sleep gonk . As you can most likely tell, I’m pretty desperate and pathetic about these bugs. This is very odd behavior for me. I love bugs! They are amazing! My nickname is even “the fly”. So how did I acquire this phobia of house centipedes??? Do you have any advice for me?? Is there any help or hope for me?? I had been told that these guys were poisonous but I guess that is wrong. A great thing about my spiders were that I bred poisonous ones, if these creeps in my bathroom were poisonous it would give me a good boost of encouragement to capture, captivate, and breed them to try and make the biggest baddest most poisonous one I could. Which in turn would help conquer my fear, but I guess that will not be so. Can you help me? Or am I going to have to forget my morals and grab the raid?? I hope you enjoyed reading this. I’m off to go live in fear. Thank you for you site!!! <3
Much much much love,
Helen -the fly-
thesunflowergirl · Tue Jul 29, 2008 @ 08:21am · 0 Comments |
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