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Sure, coffee is great, but have you ever walked into your kitchen and caught a slight movement out of the corner of your eye and realized that your whole countertop compost bucket is crawling with larvae?
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Let me tell you about the time I had some garbage bags in an empty garage in the summertime no, I will spare you
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No no I want to know — how long did they remain? Did they explode? WHAT CREATURES EMERGED
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a river of writhing larvae that stretched the length of the garage wall. (We were moving into the place, I don't remember why we were storing garbage in the garage but there was some reason that seemed like a good idea at the time.)
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"A river of writhing larvae" is some visceral imagery, sir. WELL DONE. And also holy shit how did you deal with it?
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ha, thanks. I believe I used some wasp spray I had around, or something like that, to kill them all. Something I could shoot at a distance. And then cleaned up while trying not to be sick. The human body responds viscerally to those things.
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I think I went tubing in that river once.
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We always find folks that have fallen thru the ice when spring comes.
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Apples. The bags contained rotten apples. I think YOU know what creatures emerged. 🍎
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Texas, movies on the lawn. Bro walks up with foldable chair in a bag. Turns it upside down to shake the chair out and a dozen Texas size cockroaches spill out and run in every direction - people sitting on the ground scream and try to flee. Chaos.
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This is exactly why I do not fuck with Texas.
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My brain summoned the smell up for you, it's pungent and punches you in the face when you walk in, and the fleeting thought of 'did something die' skitters past before remembering, 'shit, the trash'
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Need to add a "gross bucket takes" feed.
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Woke up around 5 from a nightmare about my floor covered in bugs. Decided to scroll through bluesky to get that off my mind and read this 1st thing. Lol
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Well I guess it’s time to move
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this happened to me once and I wanted to burn it to the ground
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No, but now I'll be having nightmares about it.
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Our outside bins get so bad in the summer that we’ve hired a cleaning service to come every two weeks and sanitize them. So gross
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actually, yes, so I am genuinely, deeply sorry for you
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This is why I keep my compost bag in the freezer.
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Stupid spontaneous generation of life.
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Thank you for not posting a picture of the bucket
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Oh yeah. Really fun when that happens in the garbage shed, when you are both sick, and the bear shows up and trashes the shed and said maggots garbage but the truck is down, so it all has to be loaded into the Element and taken to the dump, with all windows open while running a fever. Fun.
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the goal is to get it out to the compost before it starts doing that
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Thank god you were here to impart this critical wisdom that I was definitely unaware of.
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I'm in Florida. You just described a Tuesday.
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Yes, Florida is famously an awful place.
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The lids of our outdoor trash cans host a "disco rice" rave every morning whether we threw anything away or not.
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Yeesh. Lucky we keep ours on the floor.
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It's not on the counter top lol. Don't have to think about it much til it needs to be emptied.
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Mine is glass, so if there are things moving in it, it's immediately apparent.
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Ah, see, that's cool. We just use a small trash can.
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Always gets left until last because it's the absolute worst.