Ok, I have to come out and say this: Pharoah was an incredibly patient man. stubborn too.. but INCredibly patient.
See I dunno about the other plagues? But the locusts would have bugged me no end. We have a whole bunch of crickets have just moved in. Them lil things are sadistic, malicious and pure evil. 12 of them in my bedroom, and I'd be ready to let the hebrews go, send my army with them for safe passage and give each of them gift baskets as a token of "Get these things out of my face". How the heck did he hold out on a plague of them?
I am convinced they are pure evil. I'm currently trying to write an essay. Have you ever tried to write an essay with things jumping in front of the screen? (and no the time you were hallucinating doesn't count.) Then they jump at me. Now for some reason at the moment, I'm super jumpy- so a small annoying thing launching itself at me isn't taken well. Usually it involves some shrieking and a shoe. Then when you acutally get them, they're worse than cockroaches! You can thunk em a dozen times, but unless you put them in a rubbish bin somewhere else in the house, they come back to life and haunt you again. (the bonus is they are easier to catch the second time around.)
Its not just essays either. Last night I was lying in my room, trying to sleep. I put headphones on with soothing classical music trying to ignore the lil clicky sound they make when they jump.. When one jumps directly in front of your face? I'm sorry, the soothing moment is over. Enter the shoe/tissue box/ and sitting up fast enough to give you whiplash.. and do it about a dozen times. Just when you finally think you've got them all, another leaps on to you. I'm sure they time it! Oh and when you are chasing them around the room, thumping whatever it is behind them as they do a dash worthy of some grand movie epic they inevitably head for the bed. Now I don't want them in my bed, and I sure as anything don't want bug guts on my bed. Next they head for my clothes which I'm also not too keen on surprisingly. Yes I'm generally a peaceful person. Yes I like animals. I used to even collect and play with bugs as a child. but when they get in the way of being able to sleep, or invading my space (which as an introvert is guarded very closely, thats too far. If they stay out of my room, I am content to let them live their lives in peace. If they enter my room and wake me at 2am in the morning, I will not be held responsible for whatever wrathful actions I take.
How the HECK did Pharoah put up with a plague of locusts? hmm I wonder if gift baskets would work...