Woman tells of her horrifying experience meeting a bug in the shower

'I drowned it in shampoo because i didn't know what else to do.'
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Brian Koerber
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For some people, spotting a bug in the shower is no big deal. As long as everyone keeps their distance, bug bro can shower along.

But for others who may have a fear of creepy crawlers, seeing a bug in such a vulnerable situation is the worst possible scenario.

Redditor Letter10 has a girlfriend who clearly has a fear of insects, and this morning he discovered a note left by his significant other recounting the terror that occurred while he was fast asleep.


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Fortunately for Letter10, his girlfriend was able to to drown the little monster in a pool of shampoo without waking him up, but she did have one request.

"Your quest is to identify the monster and eliminate all probability that I will ever see another in our house," she wrote.

Unfortuantely, she wasn't exactly sure which bug she killed, so she narrowed it down to three species:

  • Baby Voldemort

  • Shape Shifter

  • Gravity Defying Worm

In the Reddit comments, Letter10 revealed that the bug was actually a centipede, which his girlfriend calls "Voldemorts."

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