| From: | Jessica Grota <grota@*********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | (ot) Insect spirits living in my bathroom (was: insect spirits) |
| Date: | Thu, 21 May 1998 03:31:16 -0400 |
>
> >Once upon a time BigDaddy wrote:
>
> > / I need a bug thats not the typical grind the runner into dust and infest
> > / him and his whole family without batting an eye. I need a bug thats got
> > / a sense of honor or code or something along those line. Any ideas?
>
> What about a hornet? They aren't big nasty critters - if you leave them
> alone they'll leave you alone. Not only that but many of the PCs would
> think it was a wasp and be terrified :)
>
> Quantum
I beg to differ! Hornets are ornery buggers. I've been holding the
homefront against them for a couple weeks now: they're all over my
house, in my yard, etc. I've seen them attack and kill bumblebees for
wandering too close to their hive. The scary thing is, they don't lose
their stingers, so they can sting again and again. And they tend to gang
up, of course. MEAN suckers. I just HAVE to share this, since it just
happened before I logged on and checked my mail...try to picture this,
if you will.
I'm taking a bath. I lean back to rinse my hair, and I see a hornet
crawling up the wall. ABout two inches long, I kid you not. So of
course, I freak out and look around for something to kill it with. I
pass over several items, cause I'm afraid if I don't kill it on the
first hit, I'll be in a world of hurt. So I grab a flat wooden-backed
bath brush, and sit there, in the tub, trying to get up the cojones to
hit the thing. After about 5 minutes of sitting there with the brush in
midair, I finally whack it. Of course, it falls into the bathtub with
me, at which point I promptly scream and try to hide in the farthest
three square inches of the tub. All the swirling water from my fleeing
sweeps the thing within, like, two inches of me, and I'm trying to get
away from it since it's still moving, even though I'm already backed up
against the wall. I grab the brush and sweep the hornet onto the floor,
where I promptly bludgeon it with a shampoo bottle.
Yeah, okay, so in case you couldn't tell I'm afraid of bugs. But at
least I do my best to make sure that bugs are scared of me, too.
--Jett
