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Bugged at the car wash

First, you need to know that Kari Glessner of The Greenhouse/Coeur d'Alene, doesn't like bugs, spiders, and snakes. Now, onward. On Sunday, Kari & husband, Ron, were wiping down the dash inside the Metro Express, of H95 (across from Texas Roadhouse), when an unexpected close encounter occurred. On Facebook, Kari explains it this way: "All of a sudden my eyes met up with the yes of a stink BUG, INSIDE the car, on the window on MY side." The capitalizations explain all you need to know about the situation. Kari tried to hold down her growing anxiety. But she couldn't. She freaked out. A little. She made a motion to roll down the window -- INSIDE the car wash -- when her husband's voice cut through the fog of fear. "Whoa. Whoa. WHOA!" That's when Kari realized that she was still INSIDE the car wash AND that the buy was dead. In fact the bug was super dead because 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: "I tell ya ... bugs spiders and snakes scare the 'you know what' out of me."

Question: What type of creepy, crawly things scare you?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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