Seriously. No joke.
I just almost accidentally ate a ladybug.
I have rinsed my mouth out about a billion times in the last three minutes and I am still feeling like I'm going to lose my dinner all over my desk.
Although my first instinct was to close my mouth, luckily I did not CHOMP down (the thought of me crunching down on a Ms. Bug is making me all queasy again). It was in my mouth long enough for me to feel its teeny little legs on my tongue and its hard little shell against the roof of my mouth. *shudder* I thought I saw my life flash before my eyes.
I quickly spat it out into my napkin and reached for the box of kleenex, using the contents of an entire box to wipe my tongue off. Oh, and I screamed, too. But just a little (compared to a sonic boom, it was just a teeny tiny scream).
Bleh!
I don't like killing bugs, but I think this one was traumatized enough from being in my mouth. I just had to put it out of its misery. It was the right thing to do.
[I know you hate it when I do this, but no jokes about being inside my mouth, saying how good it is that I don't bite, asking if I will swallow, or any other pervy jokes. I know, I'm a party pooper, but HEY! I nearly ate a ladybug! Eww!]
P.S. - I know I have a big mouth, but when did I get designated Lady Bug Landing Pad™?
I'm sure you'll be fine. More so then the lady bug.
R.I.P. Ladybird Beetle
EWWWWWW! We were crawling around under the house around xmas time and found a whole colony of those things down there! Now I am afraid to even drink water at night cause I don't want to drink one! I feel for ya!
HEHEHE to Yoshi's comment!
Posted by: ann at February 16, 2004 08:53 PMI knew an old lady who swallowed a ladybug ... I guess she'll ...
live?
I don't think ladybugs are toxic. Gross on your tongue, maybe, but not toxic.
Posted by: Lisa at February 16, 2004 08:55 PMI hate to say it, but we had an apocolyptic pestilence of ladybugs last fall and I found out that they ARE mildly poisonous. Their legs secret poison when they are freaked out.
But you probably won't die.
I still find them under my pillow sometimes, before I go to bed at night. I brush them into the floor, without killing them, but the cats eventually find them, I'm certain.
want to feel better? growing up in the south it is known that atleast once a year a cockroach would crawl in your mouth as you slept
Posted by: skurdycat at February 16, 2004 09:13 PMWell...at least Lady Bugs are cute, as bugs go. It could have been worse.
Not that you feel any better after hearing that. lol gah!! I'd be freaking out, too.
Posted by: skits at February 16, 2004 10:04 PMEw!!! Ew! I still remember the one time I swallowed a tiny fly that flew into my mouth when I was riding my bike (don't talk & ride your bike in a park at same time :)
well, at least ladybugs are good for killing aphids that kill nice flowers and plants and stuff...but yuk!
Posted by: stkyrice at February 16, 2004 11:58 PMBe glad it wasn't a spider. Now that would suck.
Posted by: Burnt Fuse at February 17, 2004 01:10 AMit could have been Mr. Ladybug!
It's gone to a better place now anyway.
Posted by: Quanta at February 17, 2004 01:11 AMLadybugs are considered good luck folks!!!
Posted by: Lisa24293 at February 17, 2004 04:58 AMthey may be good luck, but they're gross, and bugs...and gross!
Posted by: choogie at February 17, 2004 08:10 AMladybugs are colorful and only mildly toxic! think britney!
Posted by: Camilo at February 17, 2004 08:40 PM
just how in the hell did you manage that one? i'm SO not kissing you when i see you tonight!
Posted by: Yoshi! at February 16, 2004 08:38 PM