DIE!!!

[ferebend]

Ew ew gross gross ew gross ew! An earwig. On the dishtowel that I was reaching for.

I. HATE. EARWIGS.

Silverfish? Meh. Spiders? Whatever. Moths, ladybugs, beetles? Puh-lease. But earwigs? Fuck no! Those things are nasty. And really fucking hard to kill. The last house I lived in in Newfoundland was crawling with them.

Now I'm going to have

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[tizol]

my computer used to be in the basement. The speakers were on the windowsill. One summer, my parents went away to India, shipping my siblings up the valley and leaving me behind with the house to myself because I had to work at Carleton. Anyway, so there I was, mid-july, sitting around on ICQ and I notice..... there's a chain of ear-wigs walking back and forth down the speaker wire to the computer.

In the next two hours I try to do laundry and go outside to water the garden. Earwigs in the Tide, earwigs under the screens of the basement windows.

I live the rest of the month they were gone upstairs in the loft.

Earwigs are not so much scary as gross.

[ferebend]

Yep. Sounds similar to my old house (we also had the computer in the basement). Although, we also had rotten floorboards in the basement, making the floor unpleasantly squishy and earwig-friendly in places.

[planetplanet]

You've probably unknowingly eaten a few in your sleep. :P

(We don't have those down here. Or, if we do, I've been lucky enough to never come across them.)

[ferebend]

Gee, thanks.

Unless "down here" means Antarctica, then you probably do. Earwigs are everywhere.

[planetplanet]

Maybe I do mean Antarctica. You don't knooooooow me! :P

Or maybe I mean Maryland. And after some quick Googling, it looks like they're indeed here. I still don't think I've seen any, but now I'm kind of scared. I mean, look at it -- head on one end, pinchers on the other? It'd be unstoppable if it had the brain to realize it could be unstoppable.

[ferebend]

If you lived in Antarctica, you would be 1000 times cooler (no pun intended, really). Now I'm just disappointed.