Scariest Bugs
Posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
by Jack H. Schick
I have been taking a break from writing articles for SearchWarp. I've posted 75 this year, but not many lately. I've been side tracked in writing a history for my Quaker Meeting. It's going great, but it keeps me busy. We celebrate our 300 th year in September. My wife, who writes for SearchWarp too, and I were talking about article ideas. To write together about here.
She thought for awhile and, "Bugs. Scary Insects. No, Spiders Drrrain Spiders!" She shuddered. I know, your Black Widow stories are bad, but for me it's the Drain Spiders."
"The big furry ones?" I asked. They are scary.
"Yeah," she twitched.
I told her to bring in the tablet when she was done feeding Riley and Dobie, and to bring me water. We were watching the Phillies game. I don't remember the score.
I was to lunch today at the McCooles Red Lion Inn. I met my Friend. She brought an actress from Allentown who's going to portray a character we've developed from my writings and research. The owner joined us. I gave her a booklet I wrote of the history of her 1748 Inn . They are celebrating with us. We hope to have a History Book done by September.
"I still thing Wyoming bugs are the worst." I said when she came back in. She went back out. She forgot the water.
I had gnats give me and Rudy swollen ears swarming our heads biting in Wyoming . We had to run back to the truck. The Black Widows were bad, though.
She finally got back and we wrote down Bugs from when we kids, like the Ants and the Shaving Cream, and The Hornet Sting. The Tick on Jen's Head, is the worst kid's story. That was a bad one. It was the size of my wife's thumb and green. I watched them lance the scalp and squeeze pus out at the Dr's office. She was in the hospital with IV antibiotics three days.
My son Geoff had problems with swarming insects. He came running in screaming with 250 ants crawling and biting on him. Then the Blow Flies. There were half a dozen of them hanging on his bare back, sucking and chewing. I had to smack and pinch them off. Blood was running down. Becky caught lice once, that grossed her out.
My wife started adding in frog stories, not insects then broke up guffawing. She always does that whenever she envisions that giant bullfrog springing out of the sauce pan I was carrying and hitting my Mom square in the chest while she was on the phone with my Dad.
The Phillies scored, but they were still behind. We got to see the Philly Phanatic this comercial, and you know how I feel about him.
We picked our scariest Bugs stories. It was spiders for both of us. I was psycho about spiders when I was a kid. I couldn't touch pictures of them. I freaked out. I blacked out one spider experience as a tyke. My mom reminded me of it years later. The Black Widows are close because they are so dangerous, but it was cumulative, I've dealt with a hundreds of thense. It adds up. My wife seems to be psycho about Drain Spiders, and she hates mosquitoes, too since that time in Holland Lake , Montana when they bit Baby Beck 30 times one night sleeping in the pick up truck camper.
We decided to try to write them together. It might be fun. So, we'll submit articles to SearchWarp periodically and see what our Scariest Bugs really are.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Warn me, please, with the title, if you're writing about more spiders!! I'm still paranoid about them, even when they're dead!I will. I did. Friend, Jack
My scariest thing is spider webs. Running through the woods and you face runs smack through a large spider web hanging across the path. Instant fear - WHERE IS THE SPIDER????!!!!Yep. Read the next one.
I've been terrified of spiders since I was about 4 or 5 yrs. old, when one got on my Buster Brown shoe out in a field where I was playing- I screamed for what seemed like an hour before someone heard me and came to brush it off my shoe, which I hadn't moved one inch for all that time. My son, who installs flooring and tile in new houses, was recently bitten by a Brown Recluse- I freaked out! he now has a dime-sized hole in his arm where they cut out the flesh- he could have died. I'm very careful when I dig under the sink, or anywhere there is dampness.- Good article Jack- Always- EllaThanks, I'm still too busy to focus here. Friend Jack
I think Colorado is the best for hardly any bugs (yes, we have seen an occasional Black Widow and Tarantula here but RARELY....) My Aussie friend is here for a month and I haven't been writing much either... soon!
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