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June 13, 2003

Informatio:

Rude awakening...

Click Beetle, (c) Marlin E. RiceOk, so this happened the night before last, but somehow, I forgot about it — or rather, blocked it from my memory.

11:30pm. Sound asleep. Suddeny, I feel something in my hair. Awake. Check hair. Nothing. I lay my head back down and…something is in my ear! I reach up to feel my ear and something hard is it. Then…POP! What the…? Whatever it was, it was LOUD!

I sit up and ask, “What’s going on?” (I have an assumption, but it seems too farfetched.) At this my wife has been awakened out of her peaceful slumber. She asks what the problem is and I tell her that something was in my ear. (Of course, coming out of a deep sleep is confusing enough without having to decipher a mad-man’s delusional ravings in the middle of the night.) I feel my ear again. Nothing. Huh? I get up and turn the light on and check the bed. Still nothing!

Frustrated, I go to the bathroom to check my ear in the mirror. On my way, though, I see something that turns my prior assumptions into reality. There in front of me, mounted on the door frame of the bathroom door, is a Click Beetle! (It’s funny how my half-sleeping brain devised a solution to the problem — even if it was fantastic or…disgusting.) I killed it. I had no inclination of being humane (beetlane?) at this time.

I thought twice about telling my wife what it really was. I didn’t think she would appreciate hearing that bugs were crawling on us while we slept. But she kept asking and I gave in. Still, we got back to sleep just fine. And my ear is fine too. What a night.

Posted at 09:52 am

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Comments (4):
I don’t know what to say Tim. You are a heartless, cruel, insect killer. Hehe.

p.e.horner () (URL) - June 13, 2003 at 09:45 am

Don’t cross me in the middle of the night! : )

timsamoff () (URL) - June 13, 2003 at 09:48 am

tim – that is sick. i think that would give me the willys if a bug was in my bed. sorry that happened. did you run to home depot to buy any bug killer? i’d be spraying and spraying and spraying.

i had ants a few years ago and it drove me crazy!

jason () (URL) - June 13, 2003 at 11:56 pm

Well, I’m assuming that it was a one-time incident… You don’t often hear of people having Click Beetle infestations! It probably just got in when I had left the door open or something. We’re actually pretty free of bugs of other sorts.

(If I find a second “clicker,” though, look out!)

timsamoff () (URL) - June 14, 2003 at 05:42 am

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