I was cycling to my acupuncture appointment yesterday and as I was waiting at the traffic lights a bright green creature thing landed on my handle bars.
Normally I'm ok with insect type things (apart from spiders) but this one was for some reason very alarming. A very lurid shade of green (almost looked like a toy painted creature), whiskery antenna type things and a very large sort of grass-hoppery body. Didn't look like something you'd normally see in the UK.
I wiggled my bike to try and get rid of it but it was having none of it.
So I had to move on to the pavement, get off my bike and dig out a pencil which I used to poke it away.
I'd like to be able to have taken a pic to upload here, but frankly i found the whole episode very unnerving and so was focused on just getting rid, as quickly as possible.
I'd like to think it was some kind of nice green omen or a thank you from a nice green god somewhere saying well done Sarah for cycling to your acupuncture appointment. But if that's the case then really I'd have preferred some nice green marzipan thing that I could eat. Not a horrid green insect.
Just thought I'd share.
Normally I'm ok with insect type things (apart from spiders) but this one was for some reason very alarming. A very lurid shade of green (almost looked like a toy painted creature), whiskery antenna type things and a very large sort of grass-hoppery body. Didn't look like something you'd normally see in the UK.
I wiggled my bike to try and get rid of it but it was having none of it.
So I had to move on to the pavement, get off my bike and dig out a pencil which I used to poke it away.
I'd like to be able to have taken a pic to upload here, but frankly i found the whole episode very unnerving and so was focused on just getting rid, as quickly as possible.
I'd like to think it was some kind of nice green omen or a thank you from a nice green god somewhere saying well done Sarah for cycling to your acupuncture appointment. But if that's the case then really I'd have preferred some nice green marzipan thing that I could eat. Not a horrid green insect.
Just thought I'd share.
Posted 24th October in:
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Great story Sarah! I think it was definitely a blessing from the God (or Goddess) of Green Stuff Who Watcheth Over People That Do Splendid Green Things (he/she probably didn't realise you didn't like insects, in some cultures they're probably a delicacy - here's hoping for marzipan next time)
bluemoon over 3 years ago.
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