Ever had anything creepy happen like a spider up the hose?

I use a hose cover and can't see anything hiding up my hose.
I supposed as a caution I should let her blow, as they say, for a few seconds before i mask up.
It may mess up my leak rate but it would be better than risk having, what would surely be, a very pissed off scorpion propelled up my nostrils
Mind you I probably wouldn’t stick to the routine of checking. I still leave my shoes out in the garage and never check them for scorpions before wearing them. A big no no in Arizona apparently.

Living life on the edge
~UB

Uncle_Bob wrote:I still leave my shoes out in the garage and never check them for scorpions before wearing them. A big no no in Arizona apparently.

When I lived in Las Vegas I had a habit of leaving the patio door open for a breeze and so the dogs could just go in and out.
One afternoon I was sitting there watching the TV and a big old scorpion came strolling under the TV. I mean a BIG scorpion.
I swear as long as my size 5 feet. I was too scared to stomp on him so I got a big piece of cardboard and got him up on it and took him outside and put him over the fence and told him to go play in the road.

I remember getting stung by them when putting shoes on when I was a kid in northern Arkansas. I haven't seen any here in southern Missouri. That's good because I go barefoot outside fairly often. Mainly I just worry about copperheads now. Bugs I don't panic much when I see them...they just get dispatched...but snakes give me the heebie jeebies.

I used to hold b's on my fingers when I was little....

Then one day my dad told me they sting.....

After that I got my first bee sting .. ignorance was bliss and sting free...

Now that I read that link...and now that I am on APAP I fear a nightBUGmare...ouch!

I wanted a pet Tarantula (black of course with fur as soft as mink) but my wife NIXED that... so I could only pet my fav spider at the pet store. Keep in mind I do NOT like little spiders, I wanna be able to stare eye-2-eye...ok 2 eyes to 4/8 eyes.

When we lived in Texas for a brief time:

There was a rattlesnake just outside the kitchen window of my wife's family farm. My father-in-law quickly got his shotgun, opened the window, pointed the gun out the window and shot that sucker. There was a big bush in the way and he talked my brother-in-law to take a shovel and push back the bush with the shovel. It never dawned on him to walk outside and blast away. When I asked him afterwards, he had no clue why I was asking him that? I always wonder about my wife's side of the family!! I guess thats why I married her!!
Sheriff

ChicagoGranny wrote:When we lived in Texas for a brief time:

Once when I left water in the humidifier all day I found a little beetle sitting on my mask cushion. It wasn't particularly creepy, same color and markings a ladybug, but smaller and not as round. But now I always look for bugs. If I left the tank wet, I take it out, look carefully for critters, and run the machine for half a minute, watching my mask so that if something does get blown out, it can't just crawl back in when I turn the blower off.

If I dumped and dried the tank, as I usually do, I don't worry about it as much. Still, I really ought to get a bag or something.