I may freak out over a frog but bugs generally do not send me over the edge. Don't get me wrong. I don't want one crawling on me or anywhere near me really but I don't run and hide from them. I will grab a shoe, a rolled newspaper, a flyswatter (if I'm so lucky to have one handy), anything that will render the bug lifeless.

About a week ago, I was laying in bed, just about asleep when my oldest daughter wakes me, insisting that I come look at this bug. I mumble for her to kill it and I roll back over. She keeps insisting that it's something she's never seen and it's HUGE so I finally get up to see what's with this alien bug.

I don't like bugs and I might not freak but when I saw this bug on my wall in the kitchen, I almost hurt myself and my daughter. She was standing behind me when she pointed it out to me and when I saw it, my first reaction was..."WTF is THAT thing?" as I stepped backward rather quickly. In doing so, I stepped on my daughter's feet and almost knocked her down. We stood there for a few minutes studying the 'alien bug' trying to figure out WHAT it was and how to kill it. The broom was the only option we had. Nothing else was long enough to reach and I wasn't about to climb any closer to the thing. I had no idea if it flew, crawled or what the hell it did. I finally got up enough nerve to hit it with the broom (I was afraid it would fly down or fall unto me). When I hit it with the broom, it did exactly as I thought.....it fell!

At first, I thought it had fell ON me so I took off running, making a total ass of myself and almost knocking my daughter down again. She was about to pee her pants from laughing at me. Once we figured out that the 'alien bug' hadn't landed on me we started looking for it around the floor and area around where it fell. After about 10 minutes of looking for the stupid thing I saw him on the back of the computer screen just sitting there. He looked even bigger than he did when he was on the wall. I still didn't know what it was but it was HUGE. The body of the thing was about 3 inches long and it had a zillion legs that seemed even longer than the body Once I saw it up close and personal, I was done. I told my daughter to go get her daddy (he was outside) to kill the thing that I wasn't going anywhere NEAR it again.

Of course, he teased us about the bug and gave us a hard time, even acting like he was going to throw it on me. I don't think before reacting when I am frightened so I'm guessing he would've wished he saw that broom in my hand before he thought of trying to be funny

This is the bug (well not THE bug but one like it) that was in my house. I've never seen one like it before and I hope I NEVER do again. From what I gather, it's some type of centipede but I don't know for sure.  Don't care either as long as I don't see anymore.