| Forum topic by Zuki | posted 90 days ago | 181 views | 0 times favorited | 9 replies | ![]() |
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90 days ago |
Today I needed to use my shop-vac for an extended period of time and instinctively reached for my hearing protection. As soon as I donned them I felt an itchy\crawly feeling on the top part of my ear. I paid no real attention as I thought it may have been a stray hair tickling my ear. When I felt the itchy\crawly feeling move down the back of my ear I gave the ear cup a tap and a shake. The “feeling” stopped for a few moments until I felt it again at my ear lobe. I yanked off the headset and looked inside the cup and saw a spider. Now . . . spiders are ok in their web, scooting along on a piece of board or even crawling across the back of my gloved hand . . . but trapped around my ear . . . that’s a whole other story. For you Star Trek fans I instantly had a picture of Chekov meeting Kahn and his “pets” on Cetti Alpha Five. I screamed and started shaking my head like a fool scratching my ear like a dog with fleas. Wondering how many spiders crawled into my ear I ran to the garden hose thinking “ahh the jet of water will flush them out”. I put the nozzle up my ear and pulled the trigger . . . nothing . . . the hose was not hooked up. With that DW came around corner, looked at me, and started shaking her head. When I told her what happened, while shaking my head and still scratching my ear . . . she started to laugh. She started to laugh. Yep laugh. I fail to see how she seen the funny in having arachnids roaming around in her husband’s head. Maybe she though there would be finally be something up there. Ok . . . the story did not go quite that way. I did find a spider in my hearing protection, but it was before I put them on. I removed the critter and deposited it in a bush. I did however picture Kahn dropping his “pets” into Chekov’s helmet. Hope you enjoyed my story. The moral . . . make sure your garden hose is hooked up before putting on your hearing protection. -- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them |
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