So you can imagine my terror when I came home today to find one kicking it on my doorstep. It looked just like this:
I lost it. For reals.
I couldn't even walk towards the door, seeing it walk around made my skin crawl. I begged James to take care of it but my fear was rubbing off on him. Luckily we could go in the through the garage and I called Ben, hoping that he would hear the desperation in my voice and rush straight home.
He laughed, told me to get over it and that as soon as he got home he was going to send away for the baby praying mantises that my brother-in-law so lovingly bought James for his birthday. He told me there was no way the creature was going to find it's way into the house, even though I was convinced otherwise.
I finally bribed James to take care of it. I handed him a tupperware container, told him to catch it and dump it in the grass FAR away from our house. I opened the garage for him, stood back and listened to him try to catch it by throwing the container at it.
$2 dollars and 1 dead insect later the crisis has been averted. I feel bad that the thing had to die at the hands of my poor, inexperienced bug catching son, but I feel a lot better knowing that there is one last vile thing in the world.
BTW, my skin is STILL crawling.
4 comments:
For you it's praying mantises. For me it's snakes. In my humble, opinion, snakes are MUCH MUCH MUCH worse. Too bad Conner just left. Why didn't you call Noah to come over??? He would have been thrilled!
Oh, you would have LOVED to see me and my spider encounter at family dinner last week, then. I looked down to my ankle and found a huge HUGE spider on it! I shrieked and threw myself from my chair, screaming and running around, crying hysterically and nearly fainting. Everyone jumped up and was hunting around for the spider, while I cowered in the other room (with my SIL who also hates spiders). Anyway, I can totally relate and I don't think you were at all overreacting!!
Didn't Heger tell you he planted that praying mantis on your front porch before you got there???
Okay, just kidding. SUPER funny post though, even though I know you are 100% serious. :)
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