Forever traumatized..
You grabbed a slipper, and took very small few steps in silence. Your heart was pounding fast, so fast you could feel your heartbeats making loud thumps in your neck…and a small bead of sweat starts to roll down the right side of your face, making its way down to your neck. You wipe it off, and take a deep breath. You raise your arm high, in preparation of the ultimate move that will establish your own happiness or misery for the day.
And you go for it.
And as you are only a micro second away from it, you accidentally drop the slipper to the ground and ....
SQUISH.
YES! You've succeeded!
But woah, woah, wait. Why aren’t you feeling victorious? Why aren't you happy? You've achieved what you've been carefully planning for the past 2 minutes.
So then, WHY?
You, then, realize that although you have succeeded in your great mission.....
You’ve squashed a house centipede with your own hand. Your own hand.
Your own skin.
Your own body.
Your own flesh.
And you felt it. You felt every split second of it. On your index finger. Your brain registered and processed that feel into every atom in your body. Into every nerve.
And you’re traumatized forever.
Forever.
@raisinbran's Great Encounters with House Centipedes.
Wondering why it's so terrifying? Well, here's a picture of a centipede:
This species should just go extinct lol
i know. but unfortunately, they're at the top of the food chain... they eat every insect
Dang well we had two of them (about 7 inches long each) in the house when I live in the desert (out in the stix) and you couldn't crush them with anything but a heavy rock. They were huge! Great article, though. And the hilarious thing was one of the ran over the husband's foot while he was on the toilet. He screamed like a girl! Hahahah
OMG I would freak out if that happened to me!! And they're TOO fast to kill! I always run to get the vacuum!
Seriously? Do they look like the one in this picture? There are different types/species apparently.