I inhaled a bug tonight

[shostakovich]

On my run.  Note I said inhaled, not swallowed. 

I was running and gasping for air - as I usually do while running; it's alarming but perfectly normal for me - when I saw this small fluttery insect right in front of my face.  I think it was a tiny moth.  It was too close and my seriously deep inhale was just too much for the poor creature, and before I knew it... I sucked him in.  I could sort of feel it in my trachea and then I started wheeze-coughing, but he didn't flutter out or anything.  I've been coughing on and off for the last couple of hours since I finished the run.

I'm probably going to die of a bronchial infection, right?  What are the chances that the moth is inside my lung right now, just biding his time?

[shostakovich]

Oct 1, 2013 21:49:34 GMT -5 luckydog said:

I'm no help. I got a big up my nose in front of a male cowoker today which was a beautiful sight I'm sure.

Moths disentegrate pretty well. I bet you're coughing it up in pieces. Blech. I'm sorry.

Pieces I'm okay with.  I'm mostly just (absolutely irrationally (right??)) freaked about the idea of it being alive still. 

I'm so sorry you got a bug up your nose!  Why don't these bugs just leave us ALONE?!?

[fuckyourcouch]

That moth is gonna eat its way out

I am lol at the mental image of this.

[shostakovich]

Oct 1, 2013 21:52:12 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

That moth is gonna eat its way out

I am lol at the mental image of this.

[fuckyourcouch]

Oct 1, 2013 21:54:59 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Oct 1, 2013 21:52:12 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

That moth is gonna eat its way out

I am lol at the mental image of this.

OMG Lolol I just realized how that sounded.

I meant I am laughing at the mental image of your story. Not of a moth eating you. Lol!

[shostakovich]

Nice backpedaling, fuckyourcouch, but now I know the truth about your sadistic ways!

jk.

Also, on a semi-related note - sorry about the asthma, but mazel tov on the inhaler making you feel better!

[fuckyourcouch]

Oct 1, 2013 22:16:15 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Nice backpedaling, fuckyourcouch, but now I know the truth about your sadistic ways!

jk.

Also, on a semi-related note - sorry about the asthma, but mazel tov on the inhaler making you feel better!

Lol! Thanks

[ooglie26]

Oct 1, 2013 21:54:59 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Oct 1, 2013 21:52:12 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

That moth is gonna eat its way out

I am lol at the mental image of this.

This exchange caused me to lose it at my desk, I've been laugh/crying/snorting enough to cause my boss concern. 

[shostakovich]

Oct 1, 2013 22:26:00 GMT -5 ooglie26 said:

Oct 1, 2013 21:54:59 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

This exchange caused me to lose it at my desk, I've been laugh/crying/snorting enough to cause my boss concern. 

I'm so glad my personal tragedy amused you.

[ooglie26]

Sorry!     It took me a few minutes to come in and follow up (working til midnight, ew!)

I feel your pain though...at least once or twice a summer I inhale a bug or 10. It's unnerving every time, and I'll NEVER get used to it.

I'm sure your immune system has already decimated the poor moth.  Think of it as a tiny serving of protein?   

[agnes]

All I can thing of right now is that scene in Overboard where Goldie Hawn inhales a bug "I ate a bug"