So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
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I'm trying to wrap up a story but I keep hearing cricket-related exclamations coming from the kitchen. Eventually I get up to investigate. I say, "So uh the crickets got here toda--" "I REALIZE THAT," she says. "WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER THE KITCHEN"
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I say "That's a good question. Let me check something." I walk over to the bathroom. I open the door. There are crickets. Everywhere.
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Crickets on the floor. Crickets on the walls. Crickets in the sink. Crickets in the toilet.
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For some reason my first instinct is to flush the toilet, as if that will do anything to solve the problem of crickets in all the other places that were not the toilet. I shut the door. "Uh, don't come in here!" I try to sound cheerful.
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Apparently I had not sealed the box shut as well as I should have. I ended up rushing out to the shed, in the 18" of snow and below zero temperatures, to pick up a spare aquarium we had. I spent about 45 minutes collecting crickets from the bathroom.
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Of course by this point many had migrated elsewhere. They were in the closet. In the shoes. Making their way downstairs to the playroom. The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives.
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I tried to collect all of them. It was like the world's shittiest game of Pokemon. But here we are, roughly 10 hours after the initial catastrophe, and stray crickets are still turning up in odd places.
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I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night. And that's the news from Red Lake Falls.
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I'm pleased to report that I'm still alive, and that my marriage is still intact! You all had so much fun with this that my editor made me turn it into a story, which I present to you here, as a sort of director's cut of this thread.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/i-ordered-box-crickets-internet-it-went-about-well-youd-expect/?utm_term=.4c80a9ebf63b …
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To all you monsters who demanded photos of the infestation: believe it or not, while a horde of crickets was marauding through my house I did not think to whip out my phone and start snapping pics
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I mean, can you imagine? Wife: THERE'S A CRICKET IN MY PUMPKIN PIE Me: This is tremendous content, where's my phone
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But I'm glad you all enjoyed our suffering, we've been laughing our asses off at your responses all day which almost makes it all worth it. To my new followers, I look forward to disappointing you in 2019.
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Postscript: there’s been a cricket population boom in Red Lake Falls this year and the neighbors are all blaming me. I try to explain that the field crickets people keep finding are a completely different species than the house crickets that invaded my home, but to no avail
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Me: Hahaha you can’t *possibly* be mistaking gryllus pennsylvanicus for acheta domesticus, they’re as different as different can be! Neighbors: It was a mistake, letting you into our community
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