CRICKETS! wins Twitter tonight. I promise.

[pnwmom]

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Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post data reporter
@_cingraham


So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

They were in a cardboard box. And I cut the tape and opened the box and SURPRISE! Crickets everywhere. It was the middle of the workday and I didn't have time to deal with cricket logistics, so I put the tape back on the box.

And then I put the box in the upstairs bathroom, the only semi-contained place in the house where I knew the kids and the cats and the dogs wouldn't be able to get at the box and tear it open and unleash 250 hungry crickets into our warm, semi-humid environment.

About 20 minutes later I'm back at work on my computer, and I hear my wife in the kitchen: "where are these goddamn crickets coming from." I freely admit I had not kept her fully up-to-date on my cricket purchasing plans.

SNIP


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[pansypoo53219]

1. why did you order crickets?

awesome cat toys.

[rurallib]

2. My daughter has a lizard that lives on live crickets

fortunately so far she gets them from the pet store.
I will have to pass this on