I'm a New Yorker who moved to the South for 2 years. Here are 6 reasons I'm ready to leave.

gary_webb

Damned glad to meet you
Upstate NY? Ha!

Wait until she's buried in ten feet of snow and has to leave the house through the second floor window.
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Do you like South Carolina now?
 

Clem72

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The bugs in SC are not that bad, very similar to here. Bitch should try Florida bugs.
Having lived most of my life in desert areas, the humidity and bugs in SOMD are nasty in comparison. I have also spent probably 2+ years of my life all-told in Florida (never lived, but work/leasure travel quite frequently) and I would say other than cocroach size it's basically the same as here.

The only thing I ever needed to worry about in Arizona were vinegaroons and the occasional tarantula migration.
 

PeoplesElbow

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Having lived most of my life in desert areas, the humidity and bugs in SOMD are nasty in comparison. I have also spent probably 2+ years of my life all-told in Florida (never lived, but work/leasure travel quite frequently) and I would say other than cocroach size it's basically the same as here.

The only thing I ever needed to worry about in Arizona were vinegaroons and the occasional tarantula migration.
Funny story about the spiders in Fl. When I was about 12 we went to the Miami beach area for one of my dad's union conventions (actually about a mile from that condo collapse last year). In a very nice hotel, the Sheraton Bal Harbor, was this huge spider on the vent. My mom looked at my dad and said get someone up here now, we are not going into that room. Dad goes down to the front desk, a maintenance man comes back with him with a can of raid, laughing at these tourists dad points out the spider, the maintenance guy looks at the spider, then the can of raid and says " holy crap, I think that spider will take this can from me and beat me with it, ill be back". a few minutes later he shows back up with a broom and proceeds to try to beat the spider with the broom, he hits it a few times, the spider is still alive, finally it falls down the wall and he steps on it.
 
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Clem72

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Funny story about the spiders in Fl. When I was about 12 we went to the Miami beach area for one of my dad's union conventions (actually about a mile from that condo collapse last year). In a very nice hotel, the Sheraton Bal Harbor, was this huge spider on the vent. My mom looked at my dad and said get someone up here now, we are not going into that room. Dad goes down to the front desk, a maintenance man comes back with him with a can of raid, laughing at these tourists dad points out the spider, the maintenance guy looks at the spider, then the can of raid and says " holy crap, I think that spider will take this can from me and beat me with it, ill be back". a few minutes later he shows back up with a broom and proceeds to try to beat the spider with the broom, he hits it a few times, the spider is still alive, finally it falls down the wall and he steps on it.

Florida does have big spiders, but I wasn't really thinking about them when I said bugs. Spiders don't usually "bug" me, they mostly stick to themselves. What I consider bugs are the things that actively come after me like the horse flies, mosquitos, giant moths, wasps, noseeums, chiggers, and TICKS or the things actively trying to invade or eating my house like ants, cocroaches, termites, carpenter bees, etc..
 

vraiblonde

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My stepdaughter taught me a trick to deal with spiders: spray them with hairspray. It freezes them up so they can't run away and you can squash them.
 

rio

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My stepdaughter taught me a trick to deal with spiders: spray them with hairspray. It freezes them up so they can't run away and you can squash them.
At girl scout camp we didn't have hairspray available. I got in trouble when all the spray paint disappeared from the art trailer and a bunch of colorful spider sculptures started showing up.

At band camp it was the valve oil that got me in trouble...
 

gary_webb

Damned glad to meet you
At girl scout camp we didn't have hairspray available. I got in trouble when all the spray paint disappeared from the art trailer and a bunch of colorful spider sculptures started showing up.
Too bad you couldn't get your hands on some resin.
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