Something was crawling up my leg as I washed my hands in the bathroom. I expected to see an Asian lady beetle, but it was a stink bug. Now a stink bug in this house could also be known as a Lise-freaker. There was ONE in the house last Thanksgiving, and it found her. You can’t blame anyone who shrieks when confronted with a flying insect, but I’m used to scooping stink bugs into my hand and throwing them outside. This one was friskier than most. It crawled out of my loosely closed fist and flew away. Obviously, I didn’t want to clamp down on it and cause it to stink. We were hurrying to go to early service, so I told myself I’d find it later.
Later happened to be five minutes later IN THE SHOWER. It crawled on my foot. The choice was to deal with it quietly or leap through the curtain like an screech-amplified lawn sprinkler. I know which Lise would have chosen. I just danced around the subject and got the water to pin it to the drain. It’s the first time I’ve ever showered while keeping my eyes totally on my feet. The bug seemed to be drowned. I used a paper cup to pick it up, and it stuck to the inside of the cup. Little did I know, it was in suspended animation.
After church and lunch at Cheddar’s, I headed to the bathroom with the toy camera. 
One tap of the cup, and the bug landed upside down on the counter. To my shock, it moved its legs. I told it to pose and flipped it over, having nail clippers there for size comparison. The photo session wasn’t long, and soon the bug was tossed onto the deck where it blended in with hulls of sunflower seeds from the bird feeder.
The story is true, but do you really trust a person whose cockeyed glasses take a nap on the nightstand like this?
Mehrling Muse 
love your sense of humor! I do hope tomorrow is” bug-less ” for you though!
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I appreciate that. Would you mind throwing your hope against spiders instead? I can deal with Asian lady beetles and stink bugs, but if I had encountered a spider in the shower, I would still be running.
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spiders too then!! haha! I do not like either!
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I don’t know how you got your glasses to “pose” like that but I always escort bugs out the door. I don’t like showering with them either!
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I had nothing to do with that silly pose of the glasses. Judging by the dumb phone in the photo, I feel sure the phone jumped on the glasses when I took a short Sunday nap. I had played a word game before slipping into slumber. I don’t remember a ruckus on the nightstand.
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Short nap…ahhh…a woman after my own heart. I love naps. My short ones are an hour. My regular ones are two hours. My husband thinks I have a deficiency!
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Maybe your deficiency is like mine — lack of sleep at night. I intend to go to bed, but then I find an excuse to read one more blog or write to a friend. After lunch, though, there is nothing more delicious than a nap. I suspect my nap face has a goofy smile on it. John can spot it easily.
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Oh Anne! If that had been me, you’d have heard me screaming alllll the way down there from me here in Montreal! Eeeeeeeeeek!!! You are one strong lady, kudos to you! 😀
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If there had been a spider instead of a stink bug in my shower, I’d be knocking on your door in Montreal right now!
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Ah! So it’s a question of how many legs are involved, then! Lol
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There is no question about my loathing of spiders. I’ve never gotten close enough to one to count its legs.
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8. 😂😜
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Eight legs, huh? That’s about four too many.
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Oh those bugs….
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Do you ever have a problem with bugs? I guess most people do. Silly question.
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Luckily, we don’t have bugs here Anne.
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I’ve thrown them in the toilet to die and they’ve made rafts out of the toilet paper. I know, I know, more than you want to know. 🙂
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LOL! Too bad you don’t have a toy camera to demand a record of that.
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Kathy,
Loved your story and photo of the specs standing up anti gravity. I guess I must ask, how did you get them to do that ?
As to bugs, we have all kinds here. Especially cockroaches now that the weather is getting warmer. They had suspended activities during the winter but now they are ever present. I used cockroach spray on them. Then we have lizards and other nameless insects- I ignore them and we live in harmony.
Susie
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That is amazing that you live in harmony with bugs. I like the way our bugs harmonize in the summertime. Right now we have little frogs in the creek that sing at dawn and dusk. I guess it’s high-pitched croaking, but it is pleasant. As to the glasses, that’s the way I found them when I woke from a nap. I must have put the phone down on them, either that, or they were trying to dance.
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Yes, they sure do look like doing a spring dance. But that you took a snap shot of that – good work !
Susie
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The frogs are singing here too…I love to hear them…night music.
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I feel the same as you do about spiders! I did have one in the shower once…….not good! I found out a washcloth can be a deadly weapon.
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Good for you! You were brave, and you won. I know if a spider and I were in the shower together, one of us would not live to tell the tale.
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Same here! The spider was the one who lost his life :). I hate how quiet and sneaky they are.
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Oh gosh – I’m laughing.
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Hahaha! The question really is this: Do I really trust a person who saves stink bug lives?
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I am emphatically not going to start a movement called Bug Lives Matter!
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We had a huge crop of them last year. The tiny garden tomatoes were inundated with them. I love your humor!
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Now that made me giggle as I just chased a stink bug around myself 😉
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Congrats on saving yourself from the stink bug!
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Thank you. John is happy I didn’t destroy the bathroom. Ohhhhh! If it had been a spider!!!!!!
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Being able to crawl is one thing but a bug like that has wings? I don’t know where you live but I hope it is not any where near me. Ha Ha! I would have screamed so loud that all the neighbours would have known I had an intruder. I like the way you were so calm. Way to go!
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This story would have had a different ending if a spider had been in it.
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