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VultureLvr45

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VultureLvr45

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That to. But why do women always hand us the pickle jar when our hands are wet? Just to call us wimps when it slips and we can’t open it? And heaven’s forbid we take a butter knife to knock on the lid and loosen it up. “MY GOD DON'T HIT IT SO HARD, YOU’RE GOING TO BREAK IT.” (FYI... I've never broken one.) Luckily now I have one of those flimsy plastic flat jar openers, that I got from a funeral home handing them out during a service, just for such an occasion. (Thanks uncle Bill)
Sorry, I don't have the hand strength to open my own pickle jar. Usually, I'll ask as a last resort after using the floppy thing, running it under hot water, and after trying the twist opener and rubber bands.
 

DiO'Bolic

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Sorry, I don't have the hand strength to open my own pickle jar. Usually, I'll ask as a last resort after using the floppy thing, running it under hot water, and after trying the twist opener and rubber bands.
Don't be sorry. Next time your at a hardware store, pick up one of these. The auto department is where I get all my kitchen gadgets. (And sometimes the funeral home. :))

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Grandpa

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Nah, they don't bother me. Except mosquitoes. Which is why I like spiders. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. When I'm asked to remove a spider or bug, I usually try to take it outside and release it.

Well, a couple other exceptions. Back in Illinois in the family home, we had water bugs in the basement. Nasty beetles. I'm sure they wouldn't bite or anything, but they were just nasty, like June bugs on the screen at night. Not scary, just unpleasant.

When we lived in Okinawa, they had these flying cockroaches about the size of your thumb that would infiltrate the apartment at night. We'd come home, turn on the light, and those nasty things would start flying around and divebombing you. I kept a broom right inside the door to knock them out of the air.

I'll handle grasshoppers and crickets and some spiders, like daddy longlegs. In fact, I ate some fried crickets once. I don't like wasps, but I've never been scared of them and never been stung.
 

Dana Jean

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Sorry, I don't have the hand strength to open my own pickle jar. Usually, I'll ask as a last resort after using the floppy thing, running it under hot water, and after trying the twist opener and rubber bands.
take a butter knife and just wedge it between the lid and the jar and you will hear a pop. The seal is broke and you can open it up.