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Originally Posted by photon
Went into a dollar store to try and find a bunch of plastic bugs for my kid, and that's just wrong. (edit-fixed!)
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Damn straight it's wrong! When I was a kid, we got our bugs off of the sidewalk or out of old Farmer Ted's drainage pond! As I recall, a "many-legged wriggler" was worth 2 spiders or 10 ants, and everyone was jealous of the one kid who lived in a crack-house where - if you were quick and clever - all KINDS of bugs could be found as easy as rolling a bum!
If we had too many, we ate 'em instead of wasting 'em, and put the rest in our pockets for mom to find when she did the wash! These kids nowadays get everything handed to them and will never know the *true* value of a bug!
"Plastic" bugs.

Pshaw!