Aug 09 2005
Earwigs are People Too
I just had an earwig crawl out of my shorts. It was on my knee when I realized it wasn’t just another itch. I flicked it into another time zone. (I then picked it up with some tissue and flushed it down the toilet.)
The moral of this story: Don’t leave your clothes on the floor, especially if you’re living in a damp crappy apartment in Prince Edward Island.
I am leaving this apartment in three weeks, and I will be so, so happy when that happens.
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Leaving to go where?
Jody he is coming to live with you and your family…..forever and ever…
We tried that once and concluded it should never happen again.
my backyard is INFESTED with those things. they were crawling in through my patio door till i sprayed the whole thing down with earwig RAID! they are gross looking animals, but apparently pretty harmless.
Ha ha that’s like an apartment I had several years ago. I called it Earwig Manor. I had arranged to share a place with a few friends, but it was postponed a month and I needed a place fast. So I moved into Earwig Manor and gave my notice the next day; it was such a dump. I was working in pizza delivery at the time, and I’d come home late at night to find the earwigs all crowded around the door waiting for me to unlock it.
One night I was watching TV and I felt something fall on my shoulder. You guessed it: earwig. Fortunately, I was only there for 6 weeks (and I spent 2 of those sponging off my parents).
I got you beat, Tim. Three or four years ago, I think it was, I rented a basement room in a house for about 3-4 months. This room was way underground. The one, tiny little window in the room was flush with the ceiling, and outside the window was a bush which blocked out most of the light. I’d go to the washroom in the morning and find earwigs crawling through my hair — which freaked me out each and every time it happened. I would find earwigs under my pillow in the morning. Earwigs would start falling from the ceiling as soon as I turned off the lights. Lovely sounds to fall asleep to. Best of all, and this was near the end when I finally said decided I’d had enough, I’d go to sleep with a glass of orange juice next to the bed, sipping from it throughout the night if I ever woke up and was thursty. I stopped doing that the morning I woke up and found about about six earwigs floating in my orange juice. I pissed off my landlady when I told her I was leaving (I told her when I moved in that I’d be staying for the year and she was counting on that), but living down in that hole was worse than being a prison cell. I don’t know many people who wouldn’t go out of their minds having to live AND SLEEP under those conditions for 3-4 months. Good times.
Drink your earwig juice and don’t complain, there are plenty of people and animals out there dying to get their elongated tongues on a bunch of earwigs!
man I ve been married over a decade and I can only dream of having an earwig crawl out of my shorts…some guys have all the luck…
DUDE! that was a hit at the island,.. for your info ? .. the earwig didnt origonate here so we cant help it? rag on some other place .. you dont like it here ,, Move ! … pie is a great place ,.. there a bugs everywhere ,,, yah kinda get use to it ! ,.. god ! .. act like a baby much? … i hate them to ,.. but seriously ? ..
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