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My own little controversial topic... Just how "weird" are we?!

Seriuosly... my part-time job, when a customer needs Crickets, and I'm the only one that can go in the back to get them... people can hear me shreiking back there as I get the job done... *shudder* AARGH!!! I really DESPISE when I have to do that... :sidestep:

Willingly having to put my arms into a trashcan FULL of crickets... that jump on me... my god.. I'm going to cry just thinking about it... :rolleyes: :eek1:
 
tyflier said:
I am not a big fan of spiders. I don't really fear them, per se, because they die easily. But since I can't identify them, and we have some dangerous ones around, I try to avoid them if at all possible.

I AM, however, afraid of flying insects. I don't like bugs that fly unless I can positively identify it mid-air...which is only with the ones important to fish. It's really quite funny...I admittedly run away screaming like a girl. Bats, too...
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I don't mind the giant spiders and scorpions and stuff AS LONG AS they are behind glass and I can poke at them when I chose.

As for wild insects I'm a big scardey cat. A bluebottle makes me cry. Crickets just gross me out.

I love bats though - I used to live way up in the highlands and guaranteed we got bats in the house every winter. I've had to spend hours catching and removing them which I always found amusing :)
 
i can't stand spiders.
but i'll gladly pick up the baby crabs that you can find everywhere on the coast up here, and they really are pretty similar, when you think about it...

i think the difference is, crabs i only find at ther beach, when i'm expecting to find them. spiders jump out at you when you least expect it.




as to the weird thing, i've always been a little fringe- but more the indie/hippie fringe than the tatoo-piercings fringe (though i do have 2g ear tunnels.) and even then i don't really fit. i'm pretty quiet.
But people don't expect me to own a snake because i work with kids, and am fairly... um....
descriptive words escape me.....................wholesome looking?
i dunno. but i work part time at a preschool, and it doesnt really come with the job description, or so i've heard.

my sister and all her friends are really into snakes too. maybe because theyre really into books, especially fantasy. and snakes are fascinating and otherworldy? i have no idea. but theyre all really unassuming girls- model students, really pretty.... people don't expect them to be obsessed with snakes. i find they're much more successful than anyone i've seen to get people to admit how cool they are, because theyre so obviously not "crazy."


:shrugs:
 
I think in order for someone to be weird, you've gotta have a set standard for normalcy. Which is something that doesn't exist.

I get a few weird looks when people find out that I have snakes, but not so many as an adult would recieve I'm sure. Adults just assume it's a phase I'm going through 'cause I'm only 16 or something.

Really, my knife collection and knowledge of homebrew explosives bother people more than my animals do.
 
Bats don't bother me. I actually like them.
I can go outside in my backyard at dusk in the Summer and see them flying overhead catching dinner.
 
SPJ said:
Bats don't bother me. I actually like them.
I can go outside in my backyard at dusk in the Summer and see them flying overhead catching dinner.
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I really like them :)

I remember one cold night coming into the house, walking into the living room and seeing some sort of black mass on a plant. I walked over to it not knowing what the heck it was- poked it and immediately got hissed and screeched at. Poor wee bat was terrified. I wrapped it in a towel and let it go :) Lovely wee creatures.
 
They are kinda cute. :)

You just don't want to find a squirrel in your house. I did one Winter and boy was that thing tough to catch to get outside again. Tore apart a pair of welding gloves on me (at least they saved my hands).

Of course the cat was hiding in the corner wanting nothing to do with this thing. :)
 
I can handle the crickets, and just reading the word "spider" gave me a nasty shiver down my spine, but I don't think that I'm any more weird than, say, someone who likes curling or raises fancy guppies for show...until I became interested in reptiles, I figured that it was about as approximate as my adoring my cats, though as I had no reptiles nor the interest, it wasn't relative to me. Ignorance is bliss, in some cases, but in others it can be horribly damaging. The part that I can't handle is when people assume that snakes have absolutely no value in this world other than for a pair of boots...all I have to ask that person is, "You really *want* to have your home overrun by rodents???" :sidestep: That usually creates a pretty fast click in the brain...

*sigh* :shrugs: People sometimes...
 
I like squirrels... from a distance. I've had to catch my fair share. But what terrifies me most are pinemartins. Such aggressive little buggers! Cute as button though. Why are all the pretty ones so nasty :grin01:
 
squirrel anecdotes...:)

My sister was bitten by a squirrel...we told her not to rub the walnuts on the palm of her hand! She thought that she could tease it over to her, to perhaps sit on her hand...fat chance. Those things are heathens. They just want your food. :p

One of my past houses was in the country...and while walking through the backyard one afternoon, I heard this god-awful racket above my head (way above it, in a tree) and I thought it was two squirrels fighting. Then I heard a "thump!" of a nut land by my feet. I look up -- the bloody squirrel was screeching at me! And then, to show his "power", he was hurling nuts at my head! Bloody bugger.

However, I've also seen the ingenuity of squirrel as one was able to carry a loaded McDonald's bag up a tree in its mouth and jump from the tree to the roof of a nearby building. That really floored me...

My favorite, though, was watching a young squirrel wrestling with the curled torn off backcover off of a notebook. It had gotten itself into the "curl" of the cardboard backcover and was rolling around/wrestling with it, and really, having a glorious time of it...that was a fun one to watch. :)

Ah, well...I should just write a book. :)
 
Cegninedorf said:
I don't think that I'm any more weird than, say, someone who likes curling or raises fancy guppies for show...
*sigh* :shrugs: People sometimes...
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unfortunately......

i love curling.

I have no idea why, I think it's something in the water.

seriously, no matter what they say, Canadians all seem to secretly love curling. I think our government is practicing mind control....
 
know what you mean

When I tell people that I have snakes, I usually get a response something like "YOU? You have snakes?" accompanied by some nasty grimace. I don't understand it. Some cool people out there respond by "Cool." I like those people.

I don't think owning a snake is weird or devilish. A few of my Christian friends think it's pretty cool. But some do look down on me for it.
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I am a pastor of a church (NO NOT THE KIND THAT DOES THE RATTLESNAKE DANCING THING, LOL.) and I get this all the time. I had been fasinated with snakes from a child and thought they were really cool, but they scared me to death. I always wanted one. When I told my wife this some years ago, she looked at me a little strange, but said if I wanted to get one go ahead, she would support me. I never did, kept talking about it, but still was afraid of keeping one. Well, my wife kept trying to encourage me, but I refused. Then as a result of a complication of surgery, my wife died last March leaving me with two girls. I finally got to a place in my life that I was going to face any fear I had and I went out and while getting two hamsters for my girls at the begining of december, I fell in love with a Red Tail Boa. And ended up going home with him and the two hamsters (YES, I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING TOO). Well, within a few months here, I fell in love with cornsnake and now have two of them also (normal and a ghost/snow -- not sure) along with a sand boa and a ribbon snake.

I have had family members look at me like I was nuts and gave me the whole cursed animal thing :bang: Others give me the "YOU HAVE SNAKES????" thing and I am really sick of it. I explain to them how the snakes have as much personality as a dog or a cat, but they still look at me in disbelief. It is disappointing to see people act like that, but I guess they just don't understand. I am afraid though that I am going to end up like those stereotypical old ladies with a house full of 40 cats except it will be the old man with the 40 snakes. lol. I am glad that herp lovers can connect on the net like we do.
 
Thats a nice moving story :) Thanks for sharing.

I too have boas and absolutly adore them - moreso than the corns but don't tell them that ;)

Another member on here (sean) also though buying his corn (clyde) was the result of a midlife crisis?? Maybe there is some comfort in the unusual and unknown :shrugs:
 
Thats a nice moving story Thanks for sharing.

I too have boas and absolutly adore them - moreso than the corns but don't tell them that

Another member on here (sean) also though buying his corn (clyde) was the result of a midlife crisis?? Maybe there is some comfort in the unusual and unknown
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LOL, I hadn't thought of that. A midlife crisis at 34. That seems to be what it might be. You know some guys get motorcycles, some get sportcars, others have affairs or get the 19 year old girlfriend, lol I went snake crazy. I guess it isn't a problem until I make my teenager move in with her younger sister so I can have her room for more snakes. LOL, hmmmm... where is that tape measure..???
 
About the topic of bugs and stuff that's scary...

Spiders??? Love 'em. I have a couple of pet Black Widows and I love handling the Tarantulas at work.

Scorpions??? Love 'em too.

Crickets??? Never bothered me. I spend 8 hours a day elbow deep in crickets of all sizes.

Trevor only fears one creature... The Potato Bug. It is a hideous beast that I am fairly certain feeds on human souls.
 
lefty_mussolini said:
Trevor only fears one creature... The Potato Bug. It is a hideous beast that I am fairly certain feeds on human souls.
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Whats this terrible doohickey? Never heard of it :shrugs:
 
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