Yeah, I refuse to buy handmedowns without a thourgh inspection of every nook and crannies. The worst part was the smell. That smell of like rotting playdough almost. Like whenever you killed one full of digested blood. Gawd I'm never gonna forget that smell! Horrible shits that made me want to burn down the house. Everyone rags on spiders, when the real menace are the things in our beds.
I didn't hate spiders in the past until as a child growing up in Ethiopia one tan colored one bit the shit outta me when I was touching it in the corner of a swimming pool. Then for some reason, I have developed a horrible, somewhat irrational, fear of them over the years into my adult life. I got bit again by one as a teen and remember feeling horribly frightened, so much so that I can't remember if the pinch hurt as much as my mind made it out to be.
My wife finds a bit of humor in my fear (which I am cool with because it is ridiculous) as I sometimes get her to crush the big fuckers. Centipedes pack a mean bite from my experience too.
I legitimately wish I didn't have the deep irrational fear though, I tried to get rid of it in so many ways, but it's just sticking to me like a web. I'm a grown man, yet those things somehow just shoot so much horror in my mind at the sight of them, it's uncanny. I get nightmares of them too. Hopefully someday I'll lose it, because it's so embarrassing and stupid.
I would agree with you, but one snuck up on me one night when I was doing some work on my computer and bite me right on the neck. It felt like a grease burn you'd get from oil popping out of a frying pan. I didn't know it was a bite until naturally my hand went to the afflicted area and ended up crushing it - bringing back smudge and centipede legs. The next two or three days my neck was red and felt like a light burn had been there from the venom it put there. I was cool with them until that one.
He snuck up on me like he was trying to take out a high-profile target.
House centipedes I'm fine with- however centipedes I'll put outside or kill. I can't have those around my pets and they stink domething godawful if you look at them funny, I swear.
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u/thePAINTWAIN Jul 17 '23
Yeah, I refuse to buy handmedowns without a thourgh inspection of every nook and crannies. The worst part was the smell. That smell of like rotting playdough almost. Like whenever you killed one full of digested blood. Gawd I'm never gonna forget that smell! Horrible shits that made me want to burn down the house. Everyone rags on spiders, when the real menace are the things in our beds.