CalifChick
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Joined: 10/28/2007 From: California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus So okay. I am a native of Florida summers. Palmetto bugs do not concern me. Creatures of the night, no big deal. No longer. Tonight, a moth the size of a *pterodactyl* flew into the room. Srsly. It fluttered wildly around the kitchen but then flew into the bathroom. I shut the door against further incursions, and waited for Big Bad Cali. She got a paper bowl, and as I hummed the Raiders of the Lost Ark theme to set the mood, she boldly slapped it over the thing---and the giant creature started to skitter across the floor like something out of a Stephen King story! We found a used lottery ticket in a drawer to trap the thing, but it wasn't big enough! I found one of those laminated maps and Cali shimmied it under the bowl and swept it the enormous insect outdoors, where no doubt it went off to hunt down children and small dogs. Never let it be said that our travels are not without adventure. Hib forgot a few small details... like where lushy ran screaming like a girl to the safety of thorny's loving yet heterosexual arms, where MoGa refused to even come up the stairs to the room... and the pterodactyl-sized moth was the size of a FULL GROWN pterodactyl, not one of those tiny little baby pterodactyls. The creature tried to claw and chew his way thru the bowl... and I could almost feel his heart beating thru it. When he was released into the night, I saw him circle the roof and for a fleeting moment, I thought he was going to come back and seek revenge. But no, the whooshing of his wings faded not unlike the way the winds settle after a tornado passes thru. We were safe... for a while. Cali (some people might say that I exaggerate for effect... some others would say they are wrong)
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AKA "The Undisputed Goddess of Sarcasm", "Big Bad Cali" and "Yum Bum". Advisor to the Subbie Mafia, founding member of the W.A.C. and the Judgmental Bitches Brigade, member of the Clan of the Scarlet O'Hair-a's and Team Troll
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