The Mighty Flea vs. The Cricket

Hubby spent many years in the US Coast Guard. The guys nicknamed him The Mighty Flea for a very good reason. He's small in stature, yet very strong. You'd be amazed what this little guy can do!

Last night there was a cricket chirping outside my daughter's bedroom window. She came in complaining about how this cricket was keeping her up. Now I don't know what it is about crickets in South Carolina, but they are THE LOUDEST in the world.

I remember another night where there was a cricket chirping really loud out her window. My daughter, myself, and even my son were up all night with that dang cricket. According to my son, the cricket is just looking for his mate. Well he doesn't need to keep me up all night looking for a mate. I have mine sound asleep in my bed. Cause as you all know - WWIII could be happening outside our bedroom window, yet hubby would NEVER wake up.

Well I have to tell you ... there was a time when something would wake my silly hubby up. Back before we had kids and lived in "the apartment" there was this goofy cricket who would chirp outside our bedroom window each night. One night he was exceptionally LOUD!!! All of a sudden hubby threw off the covers and ran out of the bedroom. Well I thought he was going to the bathroom. All of a sudden I hear all this racket out the bedroom window. "Take that! You stupid cricket!!" There was hubby out on the deck, yelling at the cricket with pots of hot water that he was throwing on the poor cricket. (I'm crying laughing just remembering) It took LOTS of pots of hot water to shut that beautiful cricket up. Hubby was a mad man! Yelling and throwing water at the area where the cricket was chirping from.

Finally we no longer heard the poor cricket chirp. Clearly he had been drowned by the pots of hot water. So sad. But all I could think about was --- SLEEP. So we went to bed. And then...

CHIRP!