5 INEFFECTIVE WAYS TO STOP CRICKET NOISE:
1. Toss and turn and huff and puff while nudging your husband in hopes that he will wake up and suffer too.
2. Cover your head with all of the extra pillows in the bedroom.
3. Pray that the cricket will spontaneously combust.
4. Think of noises that would be worse.
5. Blog about it.
So I get up and google, "How to get rid of a noisy cricket". There are actually several sites devoted to this. I am not alone in this misery! All of them have great suggestions: cricket traps, boric acid, cutting the grass, etc. but none of these are things that I can do now, and none of them mention my next plan- going outside in my husband's shoes and nightgown (my nightgown, not his) and stomping wildly and frantically in the grass in hopes of killing it. Sure I will look insane, and come back covered in dew, dirt, and grass clippings, but at this point anything is better than this cricket torture. So, I am just about to head outside when something unexpected happens: my husband flies past me in a rage and goes outside banging and stomping the area right underneath our window. Okay, now he looks insane.....BUT...have I gone deaf??? No.... it worked! The cricket has stopped!! What a relief! We climb back into bed to snag the few extra minutes of sleep left in the night. I snuggle in ready to catch up on my z's when...low and behold....yep.....the sun rises and it's time to start the day! Good Morning Friday!
