# Cricket Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022 "2014-10-11T03:02:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/1 "2014-10-11T03:02:37Z")
I think it’s a cricket, but it has come into my very high upstairs second-floor computer/CD/media etc. room (post-Victorian farmhouse, built 1891, windows “rehabbed”) … it showed up on the top edge of the the window when I pulled the upper half of this double-hung window down. Any idea if this would be “good luck” ? I could use some rite now. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/2 "2014-10-11T03:25:57Z")
Imma go for the obvious: is it wearing a waistcoat and a top hat? ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/3 "2014-10-11T12:09:39Z")
Jiminy? I WISH 😃 Thanks for the idea and memories. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/4 "2014-10-11T13:07:55Z")
Just be happy it ain’t in your ear! My wife told me a sickening thing about such an incident recently – made me scared to go to sleep! Have your thought of a name for it yet, other than the obvious? I like Carlos. As for luck, maybe you could wander around a horse barn… ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/5 "2014-10-11T18:04:10Z")
Well, it’s supposed to be bad luck to kill a cricket in your house, so I guess it’s good luck to have it in the first place. Also if you have a cat, it makes a great toy. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/6 "2014-10-11T19:27:52Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Also if you have a cat, it makes a great toy. Also if you have a preschooler, it makes a great toy. A particularly juicy one has been hanging out in our garage recently. Every time my daughter sees it, she stops to \*pet \*it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/7 "2014-10-11T20:36:42Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Well, it’s supposed to be bad luck to kill a cricket in your house, so I guess it’s good luck to have it in the first place. Uh-oh. My sister, who I’m staying with, has them in droves and I’ve been killing half a dozen a day. Her basement laundry literally sounds like you’re camping outside, there’s so much chirping. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cricket-here/701022/8 "2014-10-11T22:47:40Z")
As a cricket tragic, my first thought was, “Who’s playing?” :o