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I have a big problem with bugs, always have.  Growing up, if a bug was spotted in our house I would spray it with bug spray or smash it with a shoe (last resort because I don’t like the “crunch”) and then place a paper towel on top of it until my mom got it.  If my mom wasn’t home it would sit there until she got home.  So my family knew if they saw a paper towel just lying on the floor anywhere, it meant that there was a bug underneath it!

I have an issue with rodents and reptiles, too. A little beside the point, but I’ll tell you two quick stories. First, I lived in an apartment in San Diego with my husband when we first got engaged. We were on the second floor and had a balcony off the living room. One day we started seeing droppings everywhere – turned out to be rat droppings. Unless they were able to climb up a stucco wall, there was no way for them to be getting on my balcony unless they were climbing a nearby tree and jumping onto the balcony, which is what it must have been.

The management ultimately had someone come to put traps and almost every day they had to return to retrieve rats – giant rats (well they were giant to me – they were at least 15 inches or more, including the tail.) One night while home alone and watching TV I heard a loud “SNAP!” and then what sounded like a screaming baby – I kid you not, it sounded like a baby being tortured! I heard another loud noise and then silence. When I looked out there, it was gone – it had escaped!

The second traumatizing experience I had was my first time away from home at college. I moved into an off campus apartment. My roommate had not yet arrived, so I was alone. One Saturday morning I was awakened to a loud noise. I got up and entered my bathroom to find that a basket that was on top of the toilet tank had fallen into the bathtub. I didn’t think much of it or how it happened as I was still half asleep.

I then sat down on the toilet and after a couple of seconds I turned my head slowly in the opposite direction of the bathtub, to where the countertop was, and stretched out with its head raised and about 10” away from me was what turned out to be a 6.5’ boa constrictor! All I remember doing is jumping up, grabbing my portable phone and heading out the front door and down the stairs while dialing 911!

The fire department came and I was sitting on the steps in a tank top and underwear – hysterical! I called home and my dad answered. I was so freaked out and crying that my dad thought I had just gotten raped or something; when I got it out about the snake he just started laughing! Turns out it had come UP MY TOILET!!

So as you can see, I’ve had a couple of experiences that have managed to just put me off. I am still squirmy about bugs and have a hard time dealing with them. Here in Florida, there are tons of bugs, but we don’t get much in the house. What we do get in the house are lizards. My 4-year-old daughter catches them for me!

I need one of these bug vacuums and plan on getting one. I think it’s a genius idea for someone like me. It’s cordless and quickly captures bugs from up to two feet away. It suctions them through a one-way valve in the tube to an electric grid in the handle that kills them instantly. The extension tube comes off to empty the bugs out; the electric grid automatically shuts off so you won’t electrocute yourself. I’m going to start hinting around and maybe someone will buy me one as a gift. Not exactly a romantic gift, but I would love it anyway!