Scared Of Them?

Sometimes I don't understand people's logic.

So, for some reason, today at work, more customers than usual were commenting about our crickets.

Mostly on the fact that they hate the creatures and think that they're creepy. O.o
Which is weird, as they're hardly the creepiest things to deal with.
Spiders? Yah. They're creepy.
Crickets? It's not like they bite, or sting, or do things like that.

They just crawl around, hop around, nothing major.

Yet people don't like them.
lol. I'd probably understand better if I hadn't been catching them for the past four years at work, and even before that in fields when I was younger.

They're just bugs.

In any case.
The amusing thing about today is that there was a family that came into the store.
A Mom, Dad, and Son who all shared a 'fear' as you will, of the crickets.

The Father tried to put the lid on the cricket bin back on.
-We'd taken it off as it was getting too humid in the container and the crickets were dying, so we were leaving the lid off to keep it from getting too stuffy inside. -
And the Mom was like "Gah! I hate crickets! What if they jump out?"

That's everyone's concern. What if they jump out?
lol. They can't.
The container is too deep for them to do so even with the lid off.

In any case.
The young boy was fascinated/scared of the crickets as well.
He kept saying "Dad! The crickets scare me!"

O.o But then...it was like he was asking for trouble.
For he'd stare at the crickets wide eyed, give a tiny shriek, dart off to his parents...only to drag them or just return by himself, to stare at them once more.

O.o

So. Weird.
Maybe he was trying to face his fear?
If so...it wasn't working....but hey....whatever floats your boat I suppose. :)

-Sarnic Dirchi