We have never had a bug like this.. and other misconceptions!
I was confronted at 7am this morning by three hungry children demanding breakfast and a preying mantis staring at me from the kitchen table. It was actually quite unnerving as it turned its buggy little head to watch my every move as I first prepared breakfast and then attempted to remove it from the table. I got as far as relocating it to the back of the chair instead. I really am not good with large bugs at such an early hour of the day.
And so we all spent breakfast watching the bug and the bug watching us…..quite a strange sight! The children described him as ‘cute’ and by the time breakfast had finished he had acquired the name of Charlie. I decided it might be best to find out if it would actually bite me, as I knew nothing about it. So I logged onto the internet for a bit of ‘bug research’. As it turns out, it is a sexual cannibal, eeek, but perfectly harmless to humans. It could bite, but apparently it wouldn’t be life threatening. The inevitable, which I realised I had actually been putting off as long as possible, was to pick it up and throw it out the door.
Three little faces watched in fascination as I put on my brave face and more for my benefit than anyone else’s I chanted the old line of ‘it’s just a bug, it’s harmless, it’s more scared of us than we are of it’ although I didn’t feel so sure of that. It didn’t seem at all scared of us. In fact as my hand went towards it its front legs went up in a sort of karate stance, as though preparing for battle. However, with such an expectant audience I bravely picked it up and plopped it down again outside on the patio where it continued to stare at me with its little buggy eyes.
Before actually meeting a Preying Mantis, I thought they were hideous, ugly bugs, possibly dangerous and not at all what I encountered on the kitchen table that morning. Misconceptions can be a dangerous thing. It’s quite scary to realise we can so easily form an opinion on something without actually giving it a fair chance to prove itself for what it really is.
It got me thinking. I wonder what opinion people who have never encountered eBoss recruitment software have of us? An interesting thought for a bug free week……………
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