Things I’ve learned this week:
1. The reason they call the bike path a bike path is because bikes use it. Very FAST bikes with people who are serious bikers who DON’T slow down. And not everyone has a bell or is GOOD AT AVOIDING PEDESTRIANS. (Can’t they just use the road?)
2. If you swat at a spider web that is hanging off your fragile glass wind chime with a kitchen towel, odds are GREAT you will break said wind-chime into a million pieces. (But you WILL have gotten rid of the pesky spider web.)
3. If your husband swats at a pincher bug that happens to be crawling on his face in the middle of the night while sleeping on the couch in the basement, said bug might just skeedaddle into his EAR. Then the attending physician at the ER will be amazed to find an ear-whig deep inside husband’s ear. (At 3:30 in the morning.)
4. I can’t think of anything else right now because I am STILL creeped out by the bug. I may never sleep again. Nor will he, I suspect. (Those earplugs from his previous job are coming in handy…)
The bug thing is driving me MAD. I’m thinking it came inside after I hung all of our comforters, sheets and blankets on the line. My family has now forbidden me to hang clothes on the line. &@$*&*#*@(@ bugs.
The bug thing is driving me MAD. I’m thinking it came inside after I hung all of our comforters, sheets and blankets on the line. My family has now forbidden me to hang clothes on the line. &@$*&*#*@(@ bugs.
I hate to be a pest, and I don't mean to bug you, but why was tightwad sleeping in the basement?
ReplyDeleteAnd where would the ER physician expect to find an ear-whig, if not in the aural cavity?
Hot damn, I was first!
ReplyDeleteWow! Two posts in one day! *snarky grin*
ReplyDeleteThat bug thing would creep me out, too. It DOES creep me out, and I don't live in a buggy part of the country. That's just...ewwwww.....
Well now we know why they are called earwigs.
ReplyDeleteWe're sure it wasn't a Ceti eel placed by Khan in order to gain control of his mind and force him to throw the kids in front of high-speed bicyclists?
ReplyDeleteOr did you put it there?
That's creepy, but not as creepy as the waitress who was spraying down the walls at a buffet with RAID while Old Dog and I were eating there Saturday morning. If I have to choose between bugs and toxic bug spray, I'll take the bugs. (Except not in my ears.) (Or other orifices.)
ReplyDeleteYou know, my husband told me this story of an ear-wig crawling into Eddie Van Halen's ear and I didn't believe him and now here you are trying to claim the same thing.
ReplyDeleteSo I guess there's only one thing to say: I don't believe either one of you.
If your ER doc was surprised, he must have been pretty young. This stuff happens all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just you, is all I'm saying.
eeeeeek! Give me the mad bike riders any day...those earwigs are responsible for me sleeping with covers over my ear since 7th grade (yeah, long long time ago) science class. OMG!
ReplyDeletePS Can you please let TW out of the dawghouse? I think he's served his time, and then some.
Note to Self: Have VM visit here, do NOT go to her house!
eeeeeeeeeww.
ReplyDeletethat is all.
I would never sleep again.
ReplyDeleteNot ever.
My aunt had a mosquito get into her ear canal while sleeping. All she could hear was annoying buzzing inside her head until the doctor flushed it out with saline. After that trauma, she would freak out and start flailing and running when hearing any kind of insect-like buzzing. Oh, and she was actually releived when she had to get hearing aids.....
ReplyDeleteNot sure I could recover from the bug thing. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteMakes my skin crawl just thinking about a bug in the bed... eeks!
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The Blue Ridge Gal
Hanging clothes here is the most efficient way to dry them....*ponders*
ReplyDeleteI think the ear bug puts my bed bugs to shame. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteI've always suspected that bugs crawl into my ears during the night. Makes sense really. Ear holes must look pretty exciting to a bug. Hell, I would love to explore an ear hole.
ReplyDeleteUh..yeah..I too would like to know why Tightwad had to sleep on the couch in the basement!
ReplyDeleteThat must have drove him crazy! My sister had an ant get in her ear one time..said it was unbelievable the sound and stomping going on.
ReplyDeleteugh! I can't imagine a bug in my earhole or my anythinghole as far as that goes. I already sleep with earplugs now I will have to sleep with a nose plug and find a screen guard for my mouth.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry bout the windchime.. that really sucks!
I once read somewhere that we routinely digest different types of bugs as we sleep. That being said, I'm glad I sleep with cotton in my ears :)
ReplyDeleteNo more sleeping in the basement...he'd better stay on good behavior.
ReplyDeleteWell I guess it could have been worse.... Ok, maybe not.
ReplyDeleteWeren't you complaining just the other day about posting everyday? And now you are doing two 'fers.
No complaints here, I was happy to see a new VM post pop up! Nothing like screaming kids, runaway bikes and brain eating insects to get your day going!
Craig
There was an episode of the Twilight Zone about that. Except that bug had to crawl through the guys head to get out the other side. Thank goodness for ER's!
ReplyDeleteYIKES! did the bug cause any damage? I always thought was an urban legend...
ReplyDeleteYou've got me itchy all over.
ReplyDeleteIck, Ick Ick. An earwig in the ear is pretty much my worst nightmare. I am going to dream about that for sure tonight.
ReplyDeleteI'm sleeping with earmuffs on top of my earplugs. Note to self: Buy earmuffs.
ReplyDeleteI will never sleep again. Thank you very much. That is all.
ReplyDeleteGreat!!!! Just great!!! Now I'm going to have to put duck tape over my nostrils, mouth and ears when I sleep. I could end up dead by morning. . . all because of some freakin' bug with pinchers. . . and just think what the newspaper headlines will read to follow up on that story:
ReplyDeletePastor found dead. . . no foul play. . . she was into "duck tape" bondage! YIKES!
I would be freaked out too!
Paston Sharon-bawhahahaha oh my goodness that is hilarious! I wish I could come to your church...LOL
ReplyDeleteI hate bugs. Put me up against a big animal any day. I am less afraid of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to forget I ever read that, seeing as we have earwigs all over our house in July/August.
ReplyDeleteNASTY.
Oh, and Golden Boy? Put your damned helmet on and leave yo mama ALONE.
Speaking from personal experience, bug in ear is not fun. I once had a gnat crawl in my ear and I could not get it out. In a panic I called my mom because I had no car, so she took me to the emergency room. By the time the Dr. showed up it had left (for a better ear?) but I still had to have drops in it because it was sore.
ReplyDeleteThe best part? On the way home my then 5 year old brother said, "ooh! Maybe it laid eggs!"
I had nightmares for years. Little snot.
Ewww. That's gross!
ReplyDeleteI woke up once with a spider right in front of my face, on the pillow. But it didn't get in my face!!!
Trauma!
Oh that would definitely gross me out.
ReplyDeleteohhh that is my worst nightmare EVER!! I locked a beetle in the bathroom last night b.c the Man wouldn't get up to kill it and I couldn't sleep thinking it might lay eggs in my ear!
ReplyDeleteand really? The doc was AMAZED by an ear-whig in an ear? hm, woulda thought that was more common...
What if that Spider was the one radio active spider that bite Peter Parker and you could of been the next super hero in the Marvel universe... now you think about that. ;)
ReplyDeleteWTF is a pincher bug? I get the mental image of a damn crawfish! Tell those only live in "Oregon"!
ReplyDeleteMalisa
I'm going to be thinking about that bug all day...
ReplyDeleteI can just hear the dr. sitting at dinner that night "and then I pulled it out and you're never going to believe this...it was an EARWIG inside his EAR! Poor bastard has to sleep in the basement."
ReplyDeleteHee :)
My early apologies to said husband...but thank heavens it was in the sheets and not in your um, delicates. Can you imagine other 'holes' he could have chosen to hang out in...
ReplyDeleteSorry, probably not helping with the whole -creeped out by the bug thing.-
lol I have had a problem with spiders in my home. Every time I go into my bathroom there is one in there. I HATE them. I don't think I have ever had a bug in my ear though. lol
ReplyDeleteRead the earwig bit to my daughter, she is still freaking out.
ReplyDeletePoor guy...snicker
xx
Where I live we have lot's of bike paths but the bicyclists prefer the road. Particularly the roads where there are so many curves you wouldn't pass to save your life and since they ride in packs, you couldn't pass even if you dared.
ReplyDelete(oops... sorry. That was a rant.)
The earwig in the ear? I thought that was a myth. I'm now thoroughly creeped now too.
What is a pincher bug? A scorpion? Hopefully not!
ReplyDeleteEither way...ew.
Totally freaked out by the bug story!! That is really awful. Reminds me of that urban myth about the chick with the ants living in her bee-hive hairdo. *shudder*
ReplyDeleteOh, My, God. That is my worst nightmare! (The bug crawling in his ear, not being hit by a biker, although that wouldn't be very pleasant either)
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that a person digests so many spiders/insects during our lifetime. So just be glad it was in the ear!
ReplyDeleteI hate those pincher bugs as is, but in your ear. . . OMG, that would send me over the edge! Ick!
ReplyDeleteSue
Grossness! I've seen an ear-whig or two in my house and each time I call the pest control peeps with my pressure all wacky. I hate bugs! I don't think I'll sleep well tonight ... AT ALL!!
ReplyDeleteI turn to Hubster to tell him what happened. His response?
"What do you expect? It's called an EAR-whig!"
I am not freaked out by bugs but my 6'4" son is so one day he was bothering me and the next day when I found a bug I chased him down the street with it! Ahhhh revenge :o)
ReplyDeleteProve it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that? You CAN'T prove it? Then it didn't happen. At least that's what I need to believe if I'm planning on sleeping tonight.
I haven't read all of the comments, so sorry if this is redundant. But here is one solution to the bug-in-the-ear problem (which I can personally vouch for -- experienced first-hand when I was six). Pour OIL into the ear and the bug will come floating out.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised your husband made it to ER without first going totally insane.
Bugs totally suck.
ReplyDeleteNASTY
ReplyDeleteonce when we had just moved to Santa Fe, NM...upon unpacking and all....my husband had a centipede clamp down on his finger as he slid his hand under his pilllow. It was crazy and I felt uneasy sleeping in the house for weeks.
ReplyDeleteOMG! OMG! OMG!
ReplyDeleteI hate those bugs!
That image is going to stay with me a long time...yuck!
rat bastard little bugs
ReplyDeleteoh.
ReplyDeletedear Lord.
I am never sleeping again without earmuffs.
Eeeek! Nightmare city!
ReplyDeleteI worked with a woman who went on a mission trip to some foreign country (Miami?) and came back with some sort of insect larvae burrowed under her skin and growing! there. She required an operation to remove said abomination. It left a big ol' scar on the back of her neck.
ReplyDeleteHow creepy is that? Ewww, ewww, ewww.
**Tip**
ReplyDeleteWhen hanging things on the line, when dry, take them down and run them through the dryer for a couple of minutes to make sure all of the bugs are gone.
Thanks for giving me one more thing to worry about!
ReplyDeleteYou had me laughing but I'm already feeling creepy crawlies inside my ears.
I cannot stop reading your blog! I look forward to your posts every morning when I get into work...ummm i mean I'm on my break...yeahhh break....thanks for making my mornings more enjoyable!
ReplyDeleteA bug in my ear is my worst nightmare! OMG, how scary :-(
ReplyDeleteOuch, earwigs! I can't help thinking of that story.
ReplyDeleteI don't dislike bugs, per se, I just don't want them ON me. Especially not in my EAR!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Rick Daley. Why was Romeo on the couch??? You finally get GB to his own room and TW takes his place?
ReplyDeleteMy nephew had a spider in his ear once. They had to flush it out. Ew.
And what are the odds of having an actual EAR whig in your EAR???
Ha. If you swat at the bug ON YOUR WINDOW using a rolled-up magazine, you will BREAK THE WINDOW.
ReplyDeleteThe good part is that you will learn how to replace the glass, which is a good skill to have.
Because you will have to do it again.
Because there is more than one way to break glass.
I would so freak out!
ReplyDeleteEw ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!
ReplyDeleteI think I'll be purchasing a pair of ear plugs and then a pair of earmuffs on my lunch break.
Nerds, that is disgusting!