My sister-in-law Paula said, “Hey look at this guy!”
It was a large cricket with pretty colors moving
slowly through the sand. As I looked at the creature I was struck with an
impulse to reach down and let him crawl onto my hand. So I put my hand in front
of him and, sure enough, he crept onto my palm.
I said, “I wonder if he will bite.”
Paula said, “No way. He won’t bite.”
Nadia said, “He might.”
As he began crawling up toward my wrist I said, “He
has some great colors. Get a picture while he is on me.”
Normally, people can easily reach their phones in
less than 10 seconds but we were at a beach and the phones had been stashed
away in duffel bags or beach totes and so they searched for phones while the
cricket continued crawling up my arm.
By the time photos were actually taken the large
cricket had ambled up my arm, onto my shoulder, around to my back and then up
to my neck.
It was a strange feeling, sort of ticklish and
slightly creepy as he gripped and un-gripped his cricket feet moving around my
neck.
When he eventually bit me it hurt but truthfully it
was not terribly painful. It was like a strong pinch. The problem was that it
caught me off guard and made me nervous because I wondered if there were any
potentially significant negative effects from a cricket bite.
This all happened several hours ago.
In the past 10 to 15 minutes I have noticed the
emergence of… let’s see… how can I put it? I do not know an accurate way of
describing it. I have noticed the emergence of something I can only describe as
“powers.”
I know you’re probably laughing and rolling your
eyes but I suddenly have capabilities I never used to possess. For example, two
minutes ago I easily jumped over a bus without really giving it much thought.
And just before that I ate close to 1 acre of a local farmer’s crops.
Oh well… I’m going to take an aspirin and lie down. I
guess I’ll be fine in the morning.
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