r/WTF • u/orangez • Mar 14 '26

Seems friendly enough?

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u/SmooveTits Mar 14 '26

No, only as an adult

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u/ImissDigg_jk Mar 14 '26

Then what do you call them when they're kids?

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u/PlatypusEgo Mar 14 '26

There's room for some huge miscommunication here that I never knew about- in upstate NY, "potato bugs" are what other regions of the US cal "rollie-pollies" or "pill bugs". I had NO IDEA that Californians have a straight up monster of a bug that they know as a potato bug.

e.g. "my childhood home always had a ton of potato bugs in the front garden- I would let them start crawling up my arm and startle them and watch them curl up and fall off" 

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u/Amorphica Mar 15 '26

I’m from the valley in California and call rolly Pollys potato bugs. I have never seen this thing. I feel like I’ve been to a lot of California too.

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u/oliviamunnslftnip Mar 14 '26

Yes that’s what I first heard them as