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Bugs can be really annoying and hard to get rid of, especially in a large area like a store. That is why, when they are found, you need to act quickly to deal with them.

That is what happened in this story when a worker found a bunch of crickets chirping away in their store.

A whole crowd of people gathered around, looking at them without knowing what to do. Then, out of nowhere, someone from the bakery scooped them up in a box and solved the problem.

It is a funny story that you’ll just love. Check it out here.

Crickets?

This happened a number of years ago but it is a story I still tell and probably one of those work stories I will never forget.

Why would they not turn on the air conditioning during a heat wave?

I worked for a supermarket, on this particular weekend we were having a heatwave. As I worked in one of the non-food sections, this particular store never switched on the air-con.

The next day we had a major visit scheduled, some extremely high profile high ups were coming for a store walk around. Remember this.

People want to have everything nice for upper management.

Naturally everything had to be perfect for the next day, so we were super busy with a massive job list and an attempt to keep the shop floor as tidy as possible.

A customer asked me for help, a normal question, I had to get something from the warehouse for them. On the way, I remember seeing a cricket toy on the floor.

At the time, our toy section sold some life sized very realistic cricket toys. I took note so I could go pick it up after I was done with the customer I was helping.

This would be awful.

On the way back, I bent down to pick up the toy and it moved. It was no toy at all, it was a real cricket. I suddenly hear one of my co-workers from the next aisle along, she was the sweetest little old lady who just worked a few hours in the week to buy stuff for her grandson.

I ran around the corner to help her as she is running towards me with her hands in her hair ruffling her hair around. I look down the isle and we have 5 more crickets down the aisle.

Crickets can be very hard to catch and kill.

Real life crickets, and one of them just landed in my co-workers hair.

Remember how I said they never switched the air-con on in my section? Well they were testing it for the big visit the next day.

They had not switched the air-con on for so long that a bunch of crickets had made a nest in the air vent and rained crickets down onto the shop floor.

What a weird situation.

Me and this co-worker stared down this aisle, baffled at what to do. It was defiantly one of those ‘I do not get paid enough for this’ moment, also I do not do well with bugs at all.

That’s when a few customers came over to ask what was going on, to which I only pointed and said the work ‘crickets’. The customers also stared down the aisle dumbfounded as we were.

This is almost too funny.

My section leader then comes over thinking there was trouble with the customers. When we explained, she too did not like bugs and stared with the rest of us.

The security team, seeing a big group of us, then decides to come over, once again they did not know what to do.

So there we were, 2 colleagues, 1 section leader, 2 members of security, 5 customers baffled why we had crickets raining down upon us.

Not all heroes wear capes.

It was that moment a women who worked in the bakery section comes over with a huge box scoops up all those crickets like a pro.

She walks past us all nods like a champion and says ‘My lizard will feed well tonight’ and walks off.

A story they will never forget.

And thus ends the tale of when my place of employment tried to recreate one of the plagues of Egypt upon us on a casual Sunday with crickets rather than locusts.

I no longer work there, but the store does now use the air-con in that section regularly. Whenever I hear it go off as I am shopping I do look up nervously to check, you can never be sure lol.

That is just too funny, and it has such a great ending. These are the types of things that people will talk about for years to come.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about it.

This would be awful.

Yikes, at least the crickets weren’t dangerous.

Oh, what a mess this would be.

She is a legend.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who was fired because of a coworkers lies, only to get the chance for revenge years later.

Crickets aren’t so bad.

How did those crickets get into the air conditioning system? They are really lucky that the infestation wasn’t worse than this.

If they got them all at once, it means they only recently made their way out of the AC system.