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people who deliver or install things to people 's houses. what kind of odd things have you seen? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 months ago by POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Drusas@kbin.run 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've only ever seen camel crickets in one location, a house we moved into when I was around 12 or 13. None of us had ever seen one before. We called them spider crickets because at a glance they look very spidery.

You got lucky. Their mode of defense is actually to launch themselves directly at the threat. So we used to have to mentally prepare ourselves before walking into the basement because there would always be at least one spider cricket jumping right at us.

[–] CrispyCactus@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Holy moly, that sounds like a very unpleasant basement to have to deal with.

"Whelp, time to do laundry. The fun part is when the creepy mutant spider cricket launches itself at my face, yay!"

Clearly I was very lucky. I highly doubt the tenants ever used the place either. It just belonged to the crickets.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fortunately, the laundry was in the kitchen, so we just used it for storage for things we didn't use much, like Christmas decorations.

They are one of few bugs that freak me out. Too many times did I have them jumping from all directions....

[–] CrispyCactus@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Too many times did I have them jumping from all directions....

Yikes. Well, at least is was mostly just a fun holiday tradition 😬