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Purple Lady · 12-30-2018, 02:23 PM

A Washington Post reporter ordered crickets for the family's pet lizard. Things did not go well. He posted about it on Twitter and wrote a story about it in the Washington Post.

Here's the first Twitter post:
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

There's around 20 posts, and one of the later ones says:
I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night. And that's the news from Red Lake Falls.

He also talks about the cats in the story and said that The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives.
Briana later told me that she first realized something was terribly wrong when one of the cats suddenly leaped on to a pumpkin pie that had been warming on the countertop. It was going after an unusually large cricket that was munching the filling.

Here's the entire Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/statu...30244428042241

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.2a5b34b82ba4

12-30-2018, 02:23 PM	#1
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	Have you ever ordered crickets online? Don't! A Washington Post reporter ordered crickets for the family's pet lizard. Things did not go well. He posted about it on Twitter and wrote a story about it in the Washington Post. Here's the first Twitter post: So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not. There's around 20 posts, and one of the later ones says: I make this information public because if I do not send any tweets tomorrow, it is because my wife murdered me after finding a cricket in our bed in the middle of the night. And that's the news from Red Lake Falls. He also talks about the cats in the story and said that The cats were having what I can only imagine was the greatest day of their lives. Briana later told me that she first realized something was terribly wrong when one of the cats suddenly leaped on to a pumpkin pie that had been warming on the countertop. It was going after an unusually large cricket that was munching the filling. Here's the entire Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/_cingraham/statu...30244428042241 https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.2a5b34b82ba4 Last edited by Purple Lady; 12-30-2018 at 02:35 PM.