Bugging Out.

[ralerin]

ETA: Using my ipad, can't be arsed to spend whatever it is for Forum Runner at the moment so the bottom of my post got cut off. I got to cuddle the puppy. He snuggled into my chest and I got to scritch his ears and his back and pet him. He made up for the bug lady, as described below.

So at my Aid of Rite, I had this sweet, elderly lady come to my register. She was wearing a long sleeve shirt , a hat, and carried a bottle of vitamins. Fine and good, a little unusual for the warm weather but not strange. I continue with the transaction and as I put the vitamins into a bag a small, beetle-esque bug falls off and crawls across my counter. It was tiny, half the size of my pinky finger, had two main legs on the side and it had some strong looking jaws.

"Oh, what sort of bug is that?"

"Haha! That's a tick!"

" It's a TICK?!?"

"Yeah! It's not gonna do much!"

" Jesus God!" I grab my "Bindex" bottle and smash the tick into pulp. Blood everywhere, disgusting, but it's a tick! It DESERVES it.

Little old lady is horrified that I would do such a thing. Yeah, screw you, I am not going to contract a disease that you brought in!

Bonus: Beeeeeeeeeeeeer!

We have never sold beer individually out of 6 packs. We never have and we never will. No, I will not make an exception for you, even if you whine at me. No.

Bonus: PUPPY!!!

A customer brought her 8-week old beagle puppy

[zombiequeen]

eesh ticks are nasty. You did the right thing, even if it was the old lady's pet.

beeeeeeeer is sold in paaaaaaaacks

puppies are adorable! :3

[Sleepwalker]

O sweet jesus, a TICK? D: D: D: D:

On the beer thing, some shops sell 'orphans' singly, whe part of a six pack is broken, but usually it's not just on demand.

[BrenDAnn]

I'd have reacted the same to the tick as you did, perhaps with more girly screeches and dancing before I killed it. As for the beer, we have the same issue. Long ago, we sold individual cans, but we haven't for years. Somehow, though, someone was selling them out of the 6-packs, It took one note from the manager (aka tough little boss lady) to stop it. And puppy? Aaawwwwwwww! Beagles are cute, beagle puppies are ADORABLE!

[AquaGirl]

O sweet jesus, a TICK? D: D: D: D:

On the beer thing, some shops sell 'orphans' singly, whe part of a six pack is broken, but usually it's not just on demand.

We always had to do that because a holes would wait until we got busy (we had one person per shift, always), take one beer and chug it in the bathroom. We eventually had to hire a guy who's sole purpose was to watch and see if people were trying to do that. So we had 4 and 5 packs that we broke up and my manager put them in an ice barrel thingy and sold them for like $2.99 apiece and idiots actually bought them (although I guess they were like the alcoholic version of those single pie slices).

[bainsidhe]

Um, I'd be a little horrified about the tick thing too, but not because I like them. The last thing I want to see is a mushed-up bug with guts and blood smeared everywhere. Please smush your bugs out of my line of sight. Blech.

[dragon_wings]

Bonus: Beeeeeeeeeeeeer!

We have never sold beer individually out of 6 packs. We never have and we never will. No, I will not make an exception for you, even if you whine at me. No.

My mom has an awesome recipe for bar-b-que sauce that requires some random amount of beer (like 4 oz or something). And for whatever reason she seems to only use one kind of beer and one she doesn't normally drink. So she only needs 1 can when making the sauce, and she has to try to find a place that sells the cans individually.

Btw, her bar-b-que sauce... The best I've ever had.

[Gaki]

A friend and I once took a walk through the woods and later on in the dining hall at college a bug fell on the table and turns out it was a tick and we just started stripping off our clothes and feeling all over ourselves in the middle of the dining room and everyone was staring at us because we'd smashed this tick into oblivion and were ripping off clothes. There was just the one but everyone understood when we were like...

".............tick."

They all just kinda nodded and went back to eating.

[XCashier]

eesh ticks are nasty. You did the right thing, even if it was the old lady's pet.

Ugh. Maybe she's related to the Edgar Bug in Men In Black?

[AnaKhouri]

Grossness:

When I worked on a farm, the dogs would come back with ticks on them, swollen up like shiny gray balloons. I yanked them off and stomped on them. They exploded like blood-filled balloons too. It was nasty yet satisfying.

[Kisa]

Why did you kill that innocent little tick?! What's it gonna do, give you Lyme Disease?! Oh wait...

[ralerin]

Grossness:

When I worked on a farm, the dogs would come back with ticks on them, swollen up like shiny gray balloons. I yanked them off and stomped on them. They exploded like blood-filled balloons too. It was nasty yet satisfying.

I was told best way to kill a tick is to put a lighter to it. They fry and explode like blood filled bombs. I'll take his word for it.

[Jay 2K Winger]

They exploded like blood-filled balloons too. It was nasty yet satisfying.

That made me think of this.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Gack. I don't kill bugs that aren't doing any harm, but I would kill a tick in a heartbeat.

[thatcrazyredhead]

I used to work at a veterinary clinic and we would put ticks into dixie cups of rubbing alcohol. They would swell up (even bigger than normal) and die but they wouldn't explode. Still, even thinking about ticks makes me itch.