The Dreaded Earwig

Published by admin under In The Begining on July 22, 2009

It’s like I’m being forced to relieve the horror and humliation that occurred in my bathroom Monday. It’s haunting me haha. There was an earwig in the bathtub that I didn’t notice was there until I was rinsing Vera off in the shower. It was just chilling on the side of the tub menacingly moving it’s little pincers at me. A lot of screaming and panic ensued. I was wonderingv  how I was going to remove it without Matthew there, but thankfully my sporadic spraying of the shower head in my panic simply sprayed him down the drain. Poor Vera I probably created some new phobia for her over bugs carrying on the way I did, but I think there should be a special place in hell for the earwig. Since then I’ve been remind of the huge nasty earwig. A friend posted a picture of a Beadle that looked all to close to my friends the earwigs. Then the other day I was reminded of this movie that sent shivers down my spine just thinking about it. Do you remember the movie The Faculty? It stared Josh Hartnet, and it about about these alien parasites that resembled earwigs. They even crawled into your brain to take over your body. I think they needed your body because of all the water we are made up of or something crazy like that. Either way totally creepy.  This phobia all stems from when I was walking home from middle school with my friend Heather. She asked me what was crawling into my ear. Not taking her seriously I laughed and went to brush whatever she was talking about away only to touch an earwig about to crawl into my ear. I about had a nervous break down right there on Morgan St. clearly visible from Main St. where everyone and their mother could see me jumping around screaming like a retard.Oh the horror! I know that it is simply a myth that they get into your ear and burrow to your brain, but I can’t help dislodge the fear. If you had one that close to your ear could you? I guess I have seen the Wrath of Khan one to many times.