• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In a related story: I met with my new housecleaning service a few days ago and told them I had one very special request: DO NOT DISTURB THE SPIDERS IN OUR BEDROOM!! They are my mosquito-munching pets; just mop the floor under them.

  • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I don’t have a phobia of bugs, but centipedes really do make my skin crawl.

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        4 months ago

        I have a strong dislike of centipedes as well. One time years ago I had a terrible dream that a large centipede (one of those big jungle ones) was crawling all over my body. As it raced down my arm I slapped at it, with a jolt of pain my arm went instantly numb as it bit me.

        I startled myself awake to realize I was laying on my arm and it had gone completely asleep and was numb. Still one of the scariest dreams I’ve ever had haha.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I said this the last time this was posted and I’m saying it again

    “THEN MAYBE DON’T MOVE SO FUCKING FAST IT ACTIVATES MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE!!!”

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.

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      4 months ago

      A locust flew into my bedroom one summer night. Large, brown, scuttling winged thing with the mass of a tennis ball (exaggeration).

      I quietly exited the room and slept in the bathtub. I carefully went one-by-one through my things during the day but I could never locate it, only hear it buzzing somewhere.

      I slept in the bathtub for three nights before I my roommate came and flushed it out. By then I was ready to move out.

        • 🏴Akuji@leminal.space
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          4 months ago

          Nope!
          Ackshually, it stings, its forcipules aren’t a part of its mouth 🤓
          But when it comes to humans, it’s in reaction to a threat (someone mentioned being stung by one that hid inside their slippers: put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede, cornered by a giant fleshy thing invading the cozy place you just found…)
          It would rather flee otherwise.