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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Grainne who wrote (23128)6/30/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: doby  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I had to laugh at Penni's post regarding the critters large enough to wear boots and carry guns. <g>

There not quite that big up here.

A few years ago we finally made the trip to disneyland. We booked into the Howard Johnson.

We arrived at our room exausted. Dropped our luggage on the floor and all four of us fell back onto out beds.
When we all looked up we saw what appeared to be the biggest cockroach ever. The dam thing I'd say was 3 inches long.

Anyway I called down to the desk and asked them how big do these buggers get down here. No one seemed to know but they assured me they would be to my room in a few minutes to take care of it.

In the meantime No one took there eyes off it. It crawled accross the ledge and up above the doorway out of site.

Twenty minutes go by and still no one. I called once again and asked "so what's the plan of attack here. There's no way anyone's getting any sleep with this thing in the same room".

Finally a kid comes to the door. His weapon was a can of raid. He climbed up over the door and sprayed the hell out of something. Could of been a nail for all I knew. We couldn't see a darn thing.

He assured me he killed it.

The next morning my wife climbs in the shower. Yep, you guessed it.

There it was right before her eyes just below the shower head. A scream was let out and mikey came to the rescue.

I wrestled with it for an hour. It pinned me twice but I managed to wiggle my way free. Luckily a razor was nearby. I cut one leg off but the bugger kept coming forward. Then another leg. Before long I had removed all legs on it's right side.
Now I had it right where I wanted it. Turning in a continuous circle.

I guess I'd better stop. The truth is I got a shoe and killed it.

There's my story and I'm sticking with it.

By the way, it turned out to be a water bug.

mikey
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