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.
Oof, that sucks.
I kept expecting one to jump from the walls above me as I went downstairs, get into the back of my shirt, and get squished as I try to get it out. It's happened with house centipedes, and it's not fun. Especially when their legs keep moving after their dead.
Well, probably not what you're looking for but I used to work yard maintenance for a property management company.
I was sent to rake and tidy up the back yard of some house. In the back, there was an entrance to a root cellar that was separate from the house and had crappy wooden doors covering it. I was told to open it up and sweep the steps leading down to the cellar.
I don't have a problem with dark places, or bugs. But that was the first time I'd seen camel crickets. They were big, hump backed and striped. And there were dozens of them. I dutifully swept the steps, from the dead center of them, my eyes darting around constantly trying to gauge whether or not the weird ass bugs were about to launch themselves onto me. They didn't. They were super chill.
I told my dad about it later and he laughed at me for not knowing what the crickets were because they were so common. I've only seen a few more since then, and they still kinda weird me out.
Yes! I just popped in my VHS copy of "The slobbery hound" a few weeks ago when I was having a hard day. Hadn't seen it in years, and forgot how short those episodes are, haha. I remember them being a bit more epic. Still fun tho.
Also I really enjoy the 'making of' afterwards.
I loved fishing in oot. My sister and I played the game together, I was at the controls, she often told me how to solve puzzles and how to navigate. I had no sense of direction and never knew how to get from a to b. But I loved fishing at that pond so much that no matter where in the game I was, I could get back to the pond, and often did when my sister was too busy to play. Spent hours there. Thanks for the reminder OP!
I don't know why, but the sticker still being on the axe is the best part to me.
For decades there was a funeral parlor down the street from my house. Right in the middle of a busy residential neighborhood in the city. There's only on-street parking and they had two spots in front of their building reserved for funerals. Only no one ever parked there. No cars, limos, hearses, anything. A neon open sign turned on every day over their door but no one ever came or went.
My parents had a tenant who was an elderly gentleman with few relatives. When he died, my mom called the parlor to arrange the funeral but no one answered. She left a message on their machine but no one ever called back. We weren't fully surprised because we'd been calling it a front for years, but mom was unconvinced until then.
The building got fully renovated a few years ago and we actually saw a funeral taking place, so they've upped their game.
My dad and I were shopping at Home Depot one December and found a small Christmas decoration I wanted. When we got it to the register the cashier couldn't find a tag or sticker on it. Normally I'd go get another one with a tag but this was the only one they had. The cashier tried looking it up through the computer system but still couldn't figure it out. She handed it to us and told us it was free because it was the store's fault that she couldn't find the price.
We've been enjoying that decoration for years, my mom still puts it in the middle of her kitchen display. And we always remember how nice that cashier was to us.
Oh my God. My family quotes that all the time and I had no idea where it was from. My parents loved Dave so that makes since. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
That was super interesting. I never thought about spheres being able to pack in together like that. Or being able to make them yourself! Thanks for sharing.
Do, do, do do do do, da do do do do do do, do Do do Do do do do KIKIWAKA!
I'm okay with it, at least it's upbeat =)
Yikes. Well, at least is was mostly just a fun holiday tradition 😬