I started my day off with a load of laundry. Normally that’s non-eventful but today I was barefoot and it’s cricket season. There is nothing that crickets like better than hiding in a pile of dirty laundry. You’d think that at some point I would remember that but no. The baby was standing on the back porch watching me as I threw stuff in the washer. Then, out of nowhere, a cricket hopped directly on top of my bare foot. I started screaming and shaking my foot. The baby thought it was a new game and she started shrieking and laughing.
A little later I walked into the kitchen and saw something on the floor. I looked closer and discovered that it was a big, nasty cricket leg.
I was talking to my mom and complaining about the crickets. I told her about the cricket on my foot and the lone leg. It was like a scene from an insect horror movie.
Me- “It was just the leg. How does that happen? I mean, where is the rest of the cricket?”
Mom- “I don’t know. Did you know that when crickets have sex they rub their back legs together? Maybe the sex got a little rough.”
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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4 comments:
Whoa, what is your mom into that she would call losing a limb "a little rough"?
Didja think that the leg may have been a leftover from something much bigger and scarier that ATE the rest of the cricket?
Just sayin . . .
like say.....the baby????
I think they do lose a leg when they mate. There are LOTS of uni-legged crickets.
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