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The worst is when you put your foot into a pair of shoes you haven't worn in a while and a spider crawls out. Ewww.
Here if and when you wear shoes you have to watch out for Geckos.
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April, Logan got me too.. that is just horrible! I can just picture waking up with a fist sized spider on my face... I would DIE. that would be the end of LORI... thats vomitous!
With all the talk from Scott and Logan about creepy crawlers, cane spiders, tarantulas and waking up any of the above on you, I just keep thinking about The Brady Bunch Goes to Hawaii.
Don't pick up that Tiki Peter !!! Don't do it !!!
I think this thread should be renamed "Lori's about to Spew!" What a buggy turn it has taken. I'm not too scared of spiders--my phobia is bees and wasps. Picnics with fried chicken always lead to me freaking out while trying to escape a wasp. Lori, breathe deeply...put your head down towards the floor...think of your favorite books... :-)
I'm with you there, Sherri. I'm very allergic to bees, so they scare the piss out of me.
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I have such issues!
OMG, I'm so glad I'm not the only bug freak. I don't mind the little spiders - I try to catch them and set them free in the garden. The big ones HAVE TO DIE. Although we don't get the big hairy ones over here. Spiders are the reason I will not go on holiday to Australia. Oh, and big ass snakes.I also have an aversion to bees and wasps - I've never been stung, and having watched My Girl over and over as a child, I'm terrified that I might get anaphylactic shock!
Did you know that the average human swallows 9 spiders in their lifetimes? And its usually when you are asleep?
Lori - You know thats an urban myth right? It's in my big book of urban myths...
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Yeah. They TELL you it's a myth. But how do they KNOW? Just like, "Oh, come on down to Hawaii...I was just kidding about having spiders the size of my fist. Haha."Don't buy into it Lori. It's real.
PS...I woke up with a bit on the back of my leg. It looks like a spider bite. And yet, no spider to be found (trust me, I looked EVERYWHERE). So where do you think that spider is now??????
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PLAHHHHHHHHHH......
I feel it inside of me- wiggling around- looking for a place to hatch its eggs.I'm getting weaker.
UUGGGHHHH
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My God
Spider stories freak me out. Be strong April. You heard the one about the old woman who swallowed a fly? she swallowed the spider to catch the fly, then swallowed a bird to catch the spider... hee hee.. Dont get getting no ideas now...
oh Lori... you really need to learn to separate fact from fiction lol
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"ohhhhhh I dunno whyyyy she swallowed the flyyyyy... I guess she'll die". Great songs to teach your kids eh?
An oldie but a goodie! How about Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack All Dressed In Black Black Black...
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I loved Mary Mack.... and I hate bees! I got stung by a bee in a gas station in Vegas last month. It burned...stupid thing. I'm glad they die afterwards. To think after watching "Bee Movie" I actually felt for the little stinkers...no more though!I always told myself I was probably allergic too. Once when we were little my brother made me climb a tree first because he saw a bee hive in it. (I obviously didnt know) I remember it being so traumatic, that I assumed I must've had a bad reaction, and since told myself I was allergic. haha...now I know I'm not. But it still hurt...
Tisha, it's only one species of bee that dies after it stings... the Honeybee - this is because their stinger is attached to their abdomen, so basically as it struggles to get offa your skin, it rips its own abdomen off... nice huh?! The other bees live apparantly... Can't remember how I found that out...
It was struggling too. I thought it was an ember or something at first, then my friend noticed the bee on the ground and I saw its insides on my hand. damn damn bee. I stepped on it, so it still died. ouch!
OMG,my flesh is crawling from reading this thread.Yuuucckk!!!I like honeybees but wasps are nasty f**kers and I detest them with every fiber of my being.Went to the Edmonton Heritage Festival this week-end which was awesome,however I believe that dragonfly babies hatched(sorry that's as technical as I get)anyway it was a lovely breezy day and all these hatchlings were landing on the crowd.People were covered in them.They're not so pretty when they're little.It was very disconcerting to see people in the crowd covered in them and knowing you were carrying a fair amount yourself.For a while there we looked like idiots as we were brushing the little creepies away.
Dragonflies are beautiful though, and harmless. Not like the freakin' Horse flies that bite and it feels like 10,000 volts of electricity is coursing through your veins. I love Dragon flies and Praying Mantises ( even though the mantises look evil).
Horse flies are horrible.There's parts of BC that you could put a saddle on those suckers and ride the bastards.When they'd bite they'd leave huge bruises.Detestable bugs!!!
Okay i have got the creeps now.I hate spiders and bees.I just got stung by a yellow jacket last fall for the first time.It was terrible it hurt soo bad.At first it wasn't bad but by the time i got home it was so swollen and sore.I didn't even do anyhting didn't swat at it I was just pushing my little girl on the swing and in got me on the inside of my arm.
April, I just had to comment about Texas. Why do you think their boots have pointy toes? It's not just for s#$t kicking...they have to be able to get into the corners! ;)
Horse fly bites hurt like a mother. I got stung by a wasp about a year ago my hand got swollen & hurt. I killed that one. Glad I did since it's only bees that die.
Had to join in on the creepies.
Had to join in on the creepies.
Eeeew! I'm like a spectator at a train wreck, looking at the path this thread has taken. But I have to tell my bee sting story. When I was only about 4 or 5, I stepped on a bee and it stung the bottom of my foot. YOW! I couldn't believe the pain. And it was July 4, so we went to the fireworks, and I lay there looking at the beauty while the sole of my foot throbbed with every explosion. Whenever I watch fireworks I have a little twinge in memory of that.
I got attacked by a flight of Bumble bees ( yeah leave it to the 'mo to get attacked by a Classical song). I was on a swing set at camp when I was a kid ...and I guess they had their nest up in the pipe of the swingset. I got on the swing and started swingin' and then like 10 or 1,000 of 'em got me good.
LOL... loving it, Scott! leave it to the 'mo to get attacked by a Classical song
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SWEET! I just made a bunch of shelves exclusive of my "to-read" list so they are not on more than one list. Is this a new option or was I just blind?
:)
OK. Never mind. Logan just did me in.