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d_aulnoyFor the first few weeks, the crickets were cute. Well, except for when they were in my house.
Then I started catching them under random spare glasses to toss them outside, because, a) everybody knows it's bad luck to kill the frikkin' things, just like with spiders*, and b) just like with waterbugs, the remnants are ... less than charming ... to deal with.
And now? Now, I have had the same kind of an epiphany that I had when living in my 2nd apartment ever, the one where I just lost the basic gross-out factor of civilized humanity; I just picked the cricket up in my hand and tossed it off the balcony.
On the one hand, this will be considerably less time consuming. On the other, it more or less guarantees that I will continue to be The One Called Upon to Dispatch the Insect, Yea, From Now Until Eternity.
And from coast to coast, no less.
*Unless it is with the heel of your left shoe, but, even then, why would you? Leave enough of them alone, and you will have no problems whatsoever with other insects!
Then I started catching them under random spare glasses to toss them outside, because, a) everybody knows it's bad luck to kill the frikkin' things, just like with spiders*, and b) just like with waterbugs, the remnants are ... less than charming ... to deal with.
And now? Now, I have had the same kind of an epiphany that I had when living in my 2nd apartment ever, the one where I just lost the basic gross-out factor of civilized humanity; I just picked the cricket up in my hand and tossed it off the balcony.
On the one hand, this will be considerably less time consuming. On the other, it more or less guarantees that I will continue to be The One Called Upon to Dispatch the Insect, Yea, From Now Until Eternity.
And from coast to coast, no less.
*Unless it is with the heel of your left shoe, but, even then, why would you? Leave enough of them alone, and you will have no problems whatsoever with other insects!