James Nazarian wrote:
>
> Last summer I was driving down the highway and one hit my wing mirror so
> hard that it shattered the mirror and blew the pieces right out of the
> frame. It put one hell of a dent in the thing too, not that it matters
> without glass.
<jonie mitchell>
I thought I knew bugs, but I didn't really know bugs at all . . .
</jonie mitchell> as it were.
When I lived in Ontario, Canada, where you sort of expect the bugs to be
"kept down" by the cold, I saw a bug that had somehow become trapped in a
pan of oil, instantly fatal to all insects. This crazy damned thing was WAY
too big to be a bug - bird-sized and butt-ugly. Gives me the creeps just to
remember. It had big mandibles on its ant-like face and a foot-folded
delta-winged configuration when dead, soaked in oil. Reminded me of the
millennium bugs from the Book of Revelation.
I am a life-loving vegetarian old libertarian hippy, and I wasn't much
different back then but I WAS VERY GLAD it was "dead, soaked in oil."
It was just nasty, really dangerous-looking.
I don't even like to reconsider this thing. Gives me the Creeps, as I said.
Thank Deity-of-your-choice ALfred Hitchcock never came up with the idea
this bug suggests.
"THE BUGS" ;)
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