Today was one of those rare, September weekends where the sun actually shined and the temperature pushed 90º in some places. For the NW, this is most uncommon. Not necessarily the sunshine part, but the fact that it happened on a weekend. That we’ve had an insanely hot and dry summer for the entire season doesn’t make this weekend all that notable. But something was definitely upsetting Nature’s balance today.
For some reason, I had an inordinate number of bugs fly into my head’s orifices today. How can Nature be so wonderous and at the same time, so stupid? Perhaps that’s the key – perfect balance. For every chrysalis converting a worm to a butterfly, there’s a dumb-ass fly out there somewhere on a suicide mission into your left nostril. I can understand wanting to head into a cool, dark spot on a hot day, but the insects today were indiscriminate.
I had all manner of insectoids flying straight into my nose, ears, mouth, and in one wildly misguided flight plan, my eye. I’ve had this happen before. I’m guessing everyone has. But I could sense that today was somehow different. The shear numbers trying to get into my head was obscene. It was if I had a neon “vacancy” sign flashing over each head hole with the perfect color and flashing frequency to attract every dim-witted, feces-eating, winged weirdo.
There’s something unnerving when it happens so suddenly and so blatantly. When you can see the stupid bug on a direct flight path from the ground, straight up and into your nostril, you know they knew where they were going. This was no accident. The bug that decided my eye was a good location to shoot for was particularly stupid in that it was about the size of a grasshopper. And there was NO way he would be getting into a hole of that size even if he packed his stupid little hacksaw legs into a suitcase that fit into the overhead compartment. But given the overall, strange weather we had this year, I’m sure the bugs were just as bewildered as the people and this infestation manifestation was just a by-product of Nature needing to tip the balance in favor of the retard bugs today.
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