A bear ate my right foot

[MoseyWalker]

not really, but I thought "hey, it coulda happened!"


What could have happened to you, but didn't?

Did a bug crawl in your ear and eat your brain bit by bit?

Can you not stop dancing like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever?

Did a bear really eat your foot?

I want stories!

[Misunderestimator]

1. A friend of mine had a live cockroach fall in his ear...

when he was cleaning once. He thought he got it all out, pulling it bit by bit out of his ear... until 10 years later when he started experiencing excrutiating earaches. The doctor extracted an earwax-encased partial cockroach body from his ear.

[IsIt1984Yet]

2. That have me the heebee geebees like nothing I've ever read.

ewwwwww

[bertha katzenengel]

3. I almost stepped on one of these - I was barefoot (WARNING!)

[Katina]

6. eeew, what is that?

it looks like it's got a nasty stinger too!

[bertha katzenengel]

10. Jerusalem Cricket aka Potato Bug

I would've killed it -- and not been stung (I don't know if they sting) -- but jesus, if I'd stepped on it I probably would've fainted.

[Misunderestimator]

8. I almost stepped on one of these when I was a kid...

It was lying right in front of the front door and it was dark out... Fortunately my brother saw it.

(What the hell IS that you nearly stepped on? :scared:)

[bertha katzenengel]

12. HOLY SHIT!

No wonder you sing opera . . . that's where you got your start at opening your mouth and wailing. A few years' training later, and . . .

it's a Jerusalem Cricket.

[Misunderestimator]

16. Hell yeah... Water Moccasins make me scream every time.

:scared:

And shit... just looked up Jerusalem Crickets! Glad you didn't step on it... Damn. :scared:

[Katina]

4. I was about to be assaulted

until a cop car pulled up and saved me.

I used to commute to college. I took the bus to & from school, but I had to transfer buses in an area that wasn't very safe after dark. While waiting for my bus, a car pulled up and the man asked if I wanted a ride. He did scare me, and I said no thank you. He pulled away and turned the corner. About a minute later, the same man, walked around the corner & approached me again. He again started with the "do you want a ride" and "come on, you don't need to wait for the bus." I kept saying no, my arms were filled with my books so, I couldn't push him away. I was pretty scared and didn't see a soul who could help me, when suddenly, this cop car pulled up and asked if there was a problem. I calmly told them that this young man was just offering me a ride but that I had told him no. With that, the man said, everything's cool..and he walked away. I said thank you to the cops, and they stayed right there until my bus came. After that, I never commuted home on the late class nights, I stayed on campus.

[MrCoffee]

5. I knew a guy who had a worm grow in his wisdom tooth socket

Had his teeth removed, and we were drinking beers a couple of days later, and he was talking about how bad his face hurt. He wanted me to take a look and see if it was infected or something. He went and got a flashlight, and I saw the thing wriggling around in his jaw. Pulled it right out of there with some needlenose pliers. It was maybe 3/4 of an inch long.

Coulda happened to me, I guess.

[Ptah]

7. I was going to roller skate here, but my friend said it couldn't be done

Woulda coulda shoulda

[MrCoffee]

9. your friend has no sense of adventure

[BrotherBuzz]

19. All you've got to do is put your mind to it,

Knuckle down, buckle down,
Do it, Do it, Do it.

but ya still can't change film with a kid on your back nor go fishing in a watermelon patch...:shrug:

[Joe Fields]

11. I lived on the edge of Death Valley for a time, and....

Every night, before I went to bed, I would have to peel the covers back and shake them to see if any scorpions, centipedes,snakes or any other poisonous critter wanted to hunker down with me.

In the mornings, I would have to shake my clothing, before I put it on, and check my shoes for black widow spiders. (they were plentiful)

At least three times a week or more I would kill either scorpions or centipedes that had invaded my house. It was an every day vigil.

Never got stung or bitten, though. But hey, it could've happened!

[MoseyWalker]

13. Why would anyone go to a place called Death Valley?

maybe Pleasant Valley or Peaceful Valley, but DEATH VALLEY?

what the hell were you thinking?

:rofl:

[Joe Fields]

14. I loved it there. But it was hard to make a living.

Very beautiful and scenic. Not very many people. A little too hot at times, but a really neat place to live.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Peaceful Valley is the name of my dojo.

:thumbsup:

[otherlander]

15. I fought Nazis to the death on top of an apartment building

and won thanks to the help of a nest of scorpions.

[Deja Q]

18. Well, a bear could have... well, don't worry, he stood me up!

:spray: