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kiffieToday, kiffies met a phasmid.
I was walking back from my first final and saw a stick, about the size of my hand, strolling across the sidewalk.
"Huh," says kiffies, "that stick is going for a walk."
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"Wat."
And, sure enough, the wee stick was moseying like a moseying thing.
I knew there would be a lot of foot traffic soon, and the stick was hardly moving fast enough to clear the walkway before the incoming people-wave. So I offered him my hand. He promptly sat down and spent the next 30 seconds touching everything, but not climbing on. I was getting a little impatient, so I moved to grab him. And instead of 6-or-so inches of wriggling bug, I came back up with... a twig. Or, rather, the front half of him had assumed twig position. The rear half was still bug, with toes everywhere. It was ridiculously funny to see.
I took him across the street and let him go in some bushes. I hope he finds many delicious foods there.
I was walking back from my first final and saw a stick, about the size of my hand, strolling across the sidewalk.
"Huh," says kiffies, "that stick is going for a walk."
...
"Wat."
And, sure enough, the wee stick was moseying like a moseying thing.
I knew there would be a lot of foot traffic soon, and the stick was hardly moving fast enough to clear the walkway before the incoming people-wave. So I offered him my hand. He promptly sat down and spent the next 30 seconds touching everything, but not climbing on. I was getting a little impatient, so I moved to grab him. And instead of 6-or-so inches of wriggling bug, I came back up with... a twig. Or, rather, the front half of him had assumed twig position. The rear half was still bug, with toes everywhere. It was ridiculously funny to see.
I took him across the street and let him go in some bushes. I hope he finds many delicious foods there.
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Date: 2010-06-07 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-07 04:51 pm (UTC)I briefly tossed around the idea of keeping him, but as "he" (as with most sticks) was really a "she" and would probably produce eggs by parthenogenesis, I didn't. One stick is fun. 500... not so much. X3
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Date: 2010-06-08 01:36 am (UTC):P
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Date: 2010-06-08 12:26 pm (UTC)*sticks to the shadows*
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Date: 2010-06-08 01:14 am (UTC)Coincidentally, as I was reading that, a gnat flew into my hair. D:
-§parky
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Date: 2010-06-08 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-07 04:20 pm (UTC)Oh God that's so incredibly COOL! :D
-§parky
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Date: 2010-06-07 04:52 pm (UTC)We don't normally get them this far North. They like arid climates. SLO is decidedly wet. And yet, there he was. :3
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Date: 2010-06-07 09:35 pm (UTC)Bar patrons: (.o.)
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Date: 2010-06-07 10:52 pm (UTC)Bar patrons: *gasp!* (.o.)
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:15 am (UTC)do not let the pain get you down
for soon you shall be a cyborg :3