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[rachelmanija]

I am doing emergency babysitting for a nine-year-old boy. He is showing me his gigantic dead locust in a case. It has wings and big spiny legs. I am doing my very best not to shudder in horror, because if I show fear, that locust will certainly come much closer to me than it is now.

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[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world!

[paper-legends.livejournal.com]

If he's the firstborn, threaten this boy with the ten plagues of Egypt.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'll trade you watching the lizard. She doesn't seem to like bugs. And I don't mind locusts (in Richland we had locusts; the local joke was that they were a radioactive plague).

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Remember, most locusts are kosher!

[oyceter]

EW! I send rat licks as a defense against the dread insect.

[oyceter]

Also, at least it isn't a live Shelob?

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I am shuddering in horror on your behalf. Eccch.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

During the recent plague of locusts in Virginia, my SIL told me that my nephews would pick them up and stick them all over their shirts and walk around like that.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I was the child who waved her hands like a mad thing to get the honor of holding the very alive gigantic hissing cockroach, and as such am probably identifying with the wrong person in your post.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yes.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I used to play with millipedes when we lived in Africa. Sometime between now and then I somehow acquired an aversion to touching bugs, although I wouldn't mind a dead locust.