kiffie: An A. seemani tarantula. (Bobling)
kiffie ([personal profile] kiffie) wrote2010-06-07 08:36 am

:D !

Today, 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."

...

"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.

[identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope he found the stickbug equivalent of a bar and dazzled everyone therein with wild tales of his abduction by aliens.

[identity profile] kiffie.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Stick: *waves front legs wildly, gesticulating* \(._.)/

Bar patrons: (.o.)

[identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com 2010-06-07 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Stick: And when I touched it, it smelled like a kiffies! \(.o.)/

Bar patrons: *gasp!* (.o.)

[identity profile] kiffie.livejournal.com 2010-06-08 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
And this has suddenly turned from a bar scene to the wee phasmid holding a flashlight up to its chin in front of a campfire. XD

[identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com 2010-06-08 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It was dark in the bar. *logic*

[identity profile] kiffie.livejournal.com 2010-06-08 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
*snort* X3