A Day In Hell: How My last 24hrs Has Went

smitty_p said:
Dude,

I have similar story to the hotel nightmare.

When I was just a kid, my mom and step-dad took us kids on a vacation to Kentucky, where he was from.

Anyway, when we we opened the hotel room door, the room had crickets all over the place! Serious. Not roaches...crickets!

So, yeah, we turned tail quick and found another hotel.
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Lol crickets huh? That's bad enough for me. I got a simple rule: with the exception of butterflies/lightning bugs, anything with more than 2 wings or four legs is cause for panic, terror and fleeing on site. Praying Mantises get a pass because they are such excellent mercenaries against the other insect world lol

But funny you mentioned crickets! When we first bought our house, my wife and I had these Leopard Geckos ( Mickey and Mallory, named from Natural Born Killers). They would eat Meal Worms and that was easy. But then they got really picky and only wanted crickets ( small Pin Head types)...ok.. not a fan but we accommodated. But then they began to grow and needed bigger crickets ( Top Hats) and so we had to get this cricket house thing that would keep them. So we would get 100 from the pet store and load them up in the house and it had this tube you just pulled out, turned upside down to hold them and then dumped it into the terrarium.

One evening my wife came home from work and had picked up another 100. But she came in late, just sat the bag down on the living room chair and went to bed as I was already asleep. I woke up the next morning and it was pitch black in the house minus a night lite in the hall. I saw something jumping around. Came into the living room, pulled her jacket up from the chair and there was the entire bag, chewed open from within and they all sorta spread out in one motion.

Again, I'm bugphobic ( entomophobia is the proper name lol) and seeing over 100 crickets running free in my living room was the final straw. I screamed out, woke my wife up and said "start smashing! Better find every one of them!!" And I spent the next 2 hours hunting them down in every corner of my house on an extermination mission.

Geckos didn't stick around too much longer after that lol
 
Well, sorry for a couple of things. First of all, sorry you had to go to Charlottesville. I live right outside C'Ville....I don't like or want to be here, but family be calling (Grandchildren), so I'm here. I basically always hated DM Band, and yeah he's a local hero around these parts, and when he was here I was hearing all kinds of horror stories similar to yours, traffic, parking, nastiness, hotels, air BnB etc. I am originally from NYC and then a number of years on Long Island. I miss Long Island. Anyway, great what you went through for your wife.....but I need sympathy too. As an aside, the original violin guy with the band grew up in the house next to mine, I don't even know his name, but I'm sure most of you know who I'm talking about.
 
jtees4 said:
Well, sorry for a couple of things. First of all, sorry you had to go to Charlottesville. I live right outside C'Ville....I don't like or want to be here, but family be calling (Grandchildren), so I'm here. I basically always hated DM Band, and yeah he's a local hero around these parts, and when he was here I was hearing all kinds of horror stories similar to yours, traffic, parking, nastiness, hotels, air BnB etc. I am originally from NYC and then a number of years on Long Island. I miss Long Island. Anyway, great what you went through for your wife.....but I need sympathy too. As an aside, the original violin guy with the band grew up in the house next to mine, I don't even know his name, but I'm sure most of you know who I'm talking about.
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No kidding? Hell man, we're practically neighbors! Lol my brother lived in Charlottesville for a few years then headed west a lil bit, over the mountain to Waynesboro for a good while before coming back here in the sticks of WV.
 
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