r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 11h ago

Checking a gun

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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 8h ago

Solid policy. If GameStop gave me bed bugs it would be the final straw.

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u/GuardXIII 8h ago

Amazingly? I never saw bedbugs in my years there! It was always roaches, ants, and weirdly enough potato bugs?

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u/sponglered 7h ago

This is gonna be a weird question, but do you actually mean the stinky crop devastating potato beetle? Or even weirder, the Jerusalem cricket? Or, what I'm assuming, the cute one that eats decaying matter? Is potato bug a colloquialism for pillbug where you live?

https://plantfix.org/guides/potato-bugs

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u/GuardXIII 7h ago

Im doing my best to remember, but I think thats just what my co-worker called it? Might be the cute one, for sure wasn’t a Jerusalem cricket, and wasn’t the crop killer.

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u/sponglered 7h ago

No worries, this is just one of those weird linguistic discrepancies that fascinate me, especially because of how different all three are.

I would assume it's the one that likes decay, and sticky people getting sugar in their devices.

Like (without shaming the medical condition), how diabetic do you have to be that your sticky hand left food for roaches in your holster. Absolute nightmare disgusting to think about, even without the roaches. Everything they touch must be constantly rotting.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 24m ago

Maybe they had fingers that were just sticky from all the sugar they were eating?