One Determined Little Hop Grasser

Actually it's Grasshopper, but Ashley used to call them Hop Grassers when she was little, thus the title:)

We got in the car late this afternoon to make a run to the beverage store and the grocery store. I just happened to glance at the side mirror and noticed a bright green grasshopper with red eyes hanging on for dear life! I figured he'd fly off of there any time, but that grasshopper was a determined little fella! He hung on almost all the way to Winfield, with the car going down the highway at 70 MPH. Just when it looked like he was about to lose his battle to hang on, he took one giant leap into the car and onto my shirt. Since I get kind of spooked having any bugs crawling around on me, I picked him up and put him in the backseat to ride. Bill said "he'll get too hot in the sun tomorrow and die back there". "Nah", I said..."I'll find him when we get home and let him back outside". We got home and I looked for him, but couldn't find him anywhere. "Oh well" I thought..."at least he tried to live!". Went in and put up groceries and we ate Supper. I was going through to do some laundry, and imagine my surprise when I looked down and there was that little sucker hanging out on the table! He must've jumped back onto my shirt when I was looking for him in the car, and rode inside with me. I put him back outside on a bush, so now he's back where he started out 3 hours ago:) That is one determined little critter!