03-25-2007, 03:00 PM
Cut it up with scissors eeew. We found the centipede. I was asleep and my son was working on his computer. He woke me up saying this huge centipede was crawling really fast towards him. OMG. Well I heard they're agressive if you disturb them, such as picking up a rock one's hiding under. Maybe it was going after a bug or crumb of food by his bare feet. Anyway he came out of his room, and we're standing in the hall peeking around his door discussing what to do, and the thing (about 6 inches long) starts heading towards the door to the hall at a pretty good clip. We ran to the kitchen and continued discussing then arguing about how to get rid of it. Meanwhile it's trotting down the hall LOL. Not funny then. My son's idea won. He wanted to smash it with a hammer, and I didn't want him getting that close. Plus I'm squeamish. I wanted to cover it, slide a piece of very sturdy cardboard
under the pan and then flush. So he taped the hammer to the end of the mop handle and by then the thing was almost to the kitchen, and
my fear and squeamishness and turned to anger. Kill the #!$@# I cheered him on. "Mom, I can't believe you said that." Whack. WHACK.
It was very dead. Now by then neither one of us wanted to deal with the mess, so we covered it with a pot, and just in case it resurrected as they do, even though it's head (or was it the tail) was smashed into the carpet, we set a gallon jug of water on top the pan lol. In the morning after more discussion, I decided to be really brave and scrape it up of the carpet with a flat headed shovel. This proved so difficult, I threw a paper towel over it and then did it,with my head half turned lol My son "rescued" me by gallantly carrying the shovel with the mess out onto our upstairs lanai and flinging it towards the plant trimmings pile. Instead it landed straigh below on the downstair's tenant's lawn. So I went down with the shovel and took it to the pile. I felt kinda bad for it at that point. It probably was just trying to catch an evening meal of bugs.
Hopefully that was the last one we'll ever see in the house!
Cindy
Cindy
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under the pan and then flush. So he taped the hammer to the end of the mop handle and by then the thing was almost to the kitchen, and
my fear and squeamishness and turned to anger. Kill the #!$@# I cheered him on. "Mom, I can't believe you said that." Whack. WHACK.
It was very dead. Now by then neither one of us wanted to deal with the mess, so we covered it with a pot, and just in case it resurrected as they do, even though it's head (or was it the tail) was smashed into the carpet, we set a gallon jug of water on top the pan lol. In the morning after more discussion, I decided to be really brave and scrape it up of the carpet with a flat headed shovel. This proved so difficult, I threw a paper towel over it and then did it,with my head half turned lol My son "rescued" me by gallantly carrying the shovel with the mess out onto our upstairs lanai and flinging it towards the plant trimmings pile. Instead it landed straigh below on the downstair's tenant's lawn. So I went down with the shovel and took it to the pile. I felt kinda bad for it at that point. It probably was just trying to catch an evening meal of bugs.
Hopefully that was the last one we'll ever see in the house!
Cindy
Cindy
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