The day before yesterday I walked into my bathroom and
grabbed a Kleenex to blow my nose. (I don’t have a cold, and it isn’t
allergies. There are wildfires burning upwind from my neighborhood, and the air
quality has everyone dealing with headaches, sore throats, sinus issues and
worse.) I raised the tissue to my face and – just in the nick of time –
realized there was a large earwig clinging to the middle of it. I really dislike
earwigs. I panicked. I may even have screamed. I dropped the tissue, earwig and
all, and stomped on it several times, then flushed what remained down the toilet. That
particular earwig is no longer a threat. But now I’m imagining hidden earwigs EVERYWHERE.
The bathroom has no windows and is nowhere near any exterior door. How did the
little beast get so far into my house completely unseen? And where can I move
that’s completely earwig free?
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