05
April 2002
The other day Sonya went outside her workplace to eat lunch. "I sat down," she said, "and I felt something crunch under my shoe." It was a caterpillar. "And they were everywhere!" she went on, "they were coming out of the sky!" "Were they...on you?" I asked, my bug-phobia making my skin crawl. "Two of them were," she confirmed, "I had to yank 'em off. Then I went back inside and kept asking coworkers if I had any more on me." Yuck. I asked her if the caterpillars in question had a horn on one end. Sonya didn't know, but the next day she came back and said the caterpillars were still there and yes, they did have a horn. God. I've heard the sting these caterpillars can give you with their horns is right painful, too. All those legs and a stinger? Why haven't we eliminated this species yet? |
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