First, you should know that Coeur d’Alene businesswoman Kari Glessner doesn’t like bugs. At all. Period. Now, onward. On Sunday, Kari and husband Ron were wiping down the dash inside the Metro Express car wash on Highway 95 when an unexpected close encounter of the worst kind (for her) occurred. On Facebook, Kari describes her ordeal: “All of a sudden my eyes met up with the eyes of a stink BUG, INSIDE the car, on the window on MY side.” The capitalizations explain all you need to know about Kari’s bug-o-phobia. Kari tried to suppress her anxiety. But failed. She lost it. She was trying to roll down the window when her husband’s voice cut through her fog of fear. “Whoa. Whoa. WHOA!” he said. That’s when Kari realized that she was still INSIDE the operating car wash AND that the bug was dead. In fact the bug was so dead it was dried out. It may have been haunting Kari’s side of the car for months, undetected. If the point hasn’t already been made, Kari concludes: “Bugs, spiders and snakes scare the ‘you know what’ out of me.” P’haps we scare the “you know what” out of bugs, too – just before we squish them/DFO, Sunday Huckleberries. More here.

Question: Do you fear bugs?