Ok, story time! A time of when I was really, really, really stupid and equally lucky that involves these bugs.

A month after I had graduated high school, my friends went to the "big city" to catch a movie, we got there early and hit up Sonic for a bite. Well, it just so happened to be a clusterfuck combo of junior high school cheerleaders manning the place for charity AND the mating grounds of the assassin bug pictured here. Seriously, there were hundreds of these things all over the place, and the junior high cheerleaders were squeamish as all get out. Took for-fucking-EVER to get our food because how these girls were acting around them - not wanting to go outside, taking wide circles around the clumps of them when they did go outside, not wanting to get close to the order stations since they were also coated in these bugs. Ugh. I grew up with these things all over the place and never had a single one ever mess with me. They just sit there, looking badass.

Well, after probably 45 minutes of waiting for our food, we finally get it. "Hold on, I gotta do something here," I say to my friends and stepped out of the car. I walk to the big glass window covered in the classic Sonic painted advertisements and these bugs. I see the guy manning the fryer and grill, and he's got "I don't get paid enough for this shit" written all over his face.

I tap on the big window to get their attention, and about 3 girls and the grill cook look at me like, "wtf yo?" I take one of these bugs and pop it in into my mouth, give them all a big smile and wink, turn around and get back into the car - spitting the assassin bug out as I got in.

Those eyes they had... big as dinner plates.

I found out how stupid and lucky I was later - that they can bite the living piss out of you. Had a buddy in college tell me he got bit on the arm by one and it wasn't right for a whole year.