Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Another one, or do you mean the 13-year-old boy?
HA! There's no such thing! Request denied!!
Ummm...Bear, what was a smacked roach doin' on yer floor for 10 minutes? why didn't yuh pick him up and flush him right away?...
"... it was the beating of his hideous heart!"
The Poe story that bothers me most is "The Cask of Amontillado".
Funny, leaving it there seemed like a perfectly normal "guy" reaction to me....
*shudder*
Argh...this was one of my greatest fears when I was little. I think it's because of the stories I heard about Texas, actually...Pop (my grandfather) was stationed there during the early 50's, and Grandma never forgot the bugs - they even had scorpions, as I remember (no, I don't remember what part of the state that was in).
Luckily I only had this happen once - I used to put my shoes on and then imagine I felt something move. I'd take 'em off and check and find nothing. Then one time, when I was trying my best to ignore the feeling that something was there because I'd been wrong so many times before, I finally took 'em off and found one of those big black wood beetles we get up here (big by VT standards, which means about half an inch...) I checked my shoes REALLY well for a long time after that.
This guy needs to fry...after I castrate him...
Oooh...I'd forgotten that one. Pardon me while I go hurl...
I'm kinda claustrophobic. OK, VERY claustrophobic. Didn't care much for that story, if ya know what I mean.
I guess it's just the Marine in me that makes me police up my mess when I make it...
I thought so...waiting for the wife to find it...
Both good reasons! We do have scorpions here in Austin, although they're not poisonous enough to kill an adult (unless you're allegic I suppose). They can give a nasty, painful sting though. Also, poisonous spiders (shudder). There were some big bugs up in northern Michigan (spiders, beetles, etc.) but nothing really dangerous!
LOL! No, I was travelling alone at the time... I was in Virginia for two weeks to take a class at the Xerox training center. The "shoe" incident was in my hotel room.
Rose makes me deal with all the bugs at home anyway... roaches freak her out more than they do me!
I'm liking Vermont more and more after hearing all these stories! We have no poisonous spiders or bugs, no scorpions, no poisonous snakes (at least not that I've ever heard of or seen), no volcanos, no hurricanes, no tornados. Worst thing we have to deal with from a natural standpoint is blizzards. No big deal!
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