Well, this is a story that needs some background...
... you see, I had been living in a town called Milledgeville for several years and I had to move out of my house really quickly and find somewhere else to live by myself. It was my first time looking for a place on my own and I wasn't sure what to look out for, and I was really pressed for time. I found this tiny little trailer in the paper and went to look at it with the owner. It seemed fine to me; small, semi-furnished (bed, couch, small kitchen table), central heating and air, and all for $300 a month. So I signed a 6 month contract with a deposit, and my then 9 year old dog, Cara, and I moved in. The first week we were there the "central heat" broke and the man who owned it said he wasn't going to have it fixed because it cost too much money (It was November!). So they gave me a 12" high space heater and I had to make do :-? . You could see our breath in that place at night it was so cold, and it was because there was no insulation and there were large cracks where the front and back doorframes met the walls. The window in the kitchen area litterally poured water everytime it rained, which was a prime source of mildew underneath the carpet and in the wall . The place smelled stale with mold, and was cold and damp (my poor dog and I were both sick all the time) :smt022 .
So with all this going on the place was ripe for strange bugs. I started seeing these big jelly-bean looking things with giant criket legs that were 3 times taller than its body, and antenae that were so long and thin they looked like two strands of blonde hair standing out from the jelly-bean :smt103 . Apparently they were 'camel crickets' and they are only found in dark, damp basements (which tells you the condition of my lovely trailer). I also kept seeing some sort of huge centipede that was like 1 1/2" long with legs that looked like they came off of a brown hair comb... :smt104 that's the only way I can explain it. They actually ate cockroaches and are poisonous if you get bitten by one! I probably saw 5 or 6 camel crickets and centipedes a day in my living room, and Cara wasn't sure if she should be afraid of them or try to kill them :smt064 .
During the spring and summer the airconditioning unit decided that it didn't want to work either, so one day my dog Cara and I decided to sit outside on the porch. It had a ceiling so it provided some nice shade, and there was a porch swing on it. Well, I'm sitting there swinging and the dog is lying down, and we hear this sound that was a cross between a 'thud' and a 'plop'. A grub the size of my pinkey had just fallen out of a hole in one of the wooden beams in the porch roof and was wriggling around on the floor! It looked like something that Amazonians eat on National Geographic! :smt078
The most interesting thing (to say the least) that I had there was something I had only seen in pet stores....Let me explain..
...The trailer came with a bed that was too big for my bedroom, which was an 8' by 8' room. So my boss gave me a single bed and frame that had belonged to her daughter and I set the old bed outside leaning up against the porch so the owner could come and pick it up. It stayed there for a week, and one day it began to rain. I didn't want the wind to blow rain on the bed so I went to move them inside. When I pulled the mattress away from the boxspring I could not believe my eyes. There was a SCORPION sitting there in between them and it just looked at me with its claws raised and its tail poised to sting!! :shocked!: Where in the heck did that come from?! But that's not all....the next day I get up to go take a shower and what do you think was in my tub? Not one, not two, not three, but about 15 tiny baby scorpions crawling around in the bottom of my tub with their very protective mama guarding the nest!!!!!! I had a container of poison that I had used on my yard to kill ticks (yes we had ticks too) that I immediately poured into the tub and I turned on the hot water and they all went down the drain. I never saw them again, but that was the last straw :onfire: I was fed up :smt091 . I had had it with that stupid place, and I started looking for somewhere else to live.
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