Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Meal Worms are a Hot Commodity

Today I had a traumatic worm bin experience.  I went out to feed the worms, and in my bin was a huge mass of wiggling meal worms.  HUGE meal worms.  Totally nasty!  The big wiggly mass was surrounded by a huge ringed mass of the red worms.  I think the red worms are eating the meal worms!  I was so so so grossed out.  I can handle the red wigglers, but the fatty meal worms are too gross.  I couldn't handle getting in there and trying to take them out myself, so I thought I'd post them on craigslist.  I wrote up my post, then called my neighbor to see if he would want them for his chickens.  He did, he came over and of course the mass that would have been so easy to scoop out had scattered.  Perhaps been eaten?  There were still a bunch down below that had wiggled under the surface.  But not nearly the huge wiggly mass that it was.  After my neighbor took the worms I opened the confirmation email from craigslist and I thought I hit delete to delete the post.  Then I deleted the email.  But evidently, my post didn't delete.  I've been getting tons of calls and emails for meal worms!  One lady even called me and told me that there is a nation wide shortage of meal worms right now, so none of the pet stores have them.  She says "If you get more, you could try to sell them to the pet stores.  They could be worth a lot of money."

2 comments:

kungfuramone said...

Congratulations! You have won the "weirdest blog post on the internet today" contest. Expect worms in the mail as your prize. :]

Jennifer said...

dude, you married yet or what?
I'm in London right now, but when I'm back I wanna see some wedding photos!