Dicing with death...well, sort of...hey you weren't there!!

I was walking today, la di da da, minding my own business, head in the clouds and all those other much used, but curiously true, sayings, when my foot almost collided with a demon!

Okay it wasn’t really a demon but compared to what it actually was, perhaps a demon wouldn’t have been so bad! Because I almost stood on a…..PARKTOWN PRAWN!! *shudder*
And I don’t just mean just any of those mean ass crickets, I’m talking about a ginormous, big, huge, and bigger still, Parktown Prawn!!! < - - (Yes the kind that gets three exclamation marks without even trying!!)
When you looked at this vermin your first thought was, “Hey, where’s the saddle?” It is a testament to my day dreaming powers that I managed to miss seeing him from a mile away because, trust me, a tsunami would have been less obvious then that giant insect plonked in the middle of some poor fools driveway!

I very, very gingerly walked past it, watching it with the weariness of a hawk on caffeine in case it should suddenly jump up or twitch or, I don’t know, go ninja on me and drop me to the ground if a flying leg kick!

I sure wasn’t going to attack it. Besides being a peaceful person, I know well that PP’s are known for their ability to live through almost anything! Many a bug has scurried away from poisonings, drownings and even with half their bodies crushed beneath them! If that tsunami did hit, it would be cockroaches, politicians and Parktown Prawns that would survive!

Add to that the black liquid they squirt at you and their less then ravishing appearance and is it really any wonder even grown men scream when they find one? (And then the guys deny it and say, “It wasn’t a scream! It was just a… er …high pitched war yell, that’s right! Hell yeah!!”)

So I ended up maneuvering a nice LARGE circle about the bug. I considered taking a photo of it, but what if say, it got annoyed and told its buddies and they all came and hunted me down? That happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of mine…... I think.

I would still awfully have liked to see the faces of the home owners who came home to that puppy on their driveway! Purely for research, of course!

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See? SEE??? And they're drawn like magnets to people, popping up in the garden, in the house or just scurring towards you like you're some long lost lover!!!
They're always there...............waiting..........