Current mood:
exhausted
So I was about 5 or 6 years old. We had just moved from the trailer court to a brand new house and had everything set up, but we didn't quite know everything about the new house yet. It was an older house, bedford stone, carport, fenced in yard, seperate garage, basement, etc.exhaustedBeing a kid still, I was getting in trouble for kid things a lot. mMy stupid brother was a year or 2 younger than me and was in trouble almost as often. One time, we were sentanced to picking up all the grapes that we'd thrown all over the basement. The basement was fully finished, so it had carpet and all down there. We had it set up like another living room, complete with huge old-ass tv. The stupid brother and I had had a grape fight and those buggers were everywhere.
I was picking them up and putting them in a bag and I picked one up and on the way to the bag, I could have SWORN I felt that grape move. So I looked at it, which I had not really done before. I mean come on. Its a grape. You've seen one, you've seen em all. Well, this grape was a LOT less grape-like than the others. Turns out, the basement had water bugs. Now... This was the first time I'd ever SEEN a water bug, and I am not all that thrilled by bugs in general, so I took it calmly. And by calmly, I mean I flung it across the room and screamed my effing head off.
Mom came running to see what the hell had set of the ME alarm, and ended up laughing at me. I'd managed to jump (mind you, this is at a young age, here....) from a kneeling position on the floor to standing up jumping about on the couch making a ruckus in one swift, seamless maneuver.
Welcome to a random memory from my head. This is the first time I ever saw a water bug. For the record, we fixed the water bug issue shortly there after.
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