I was in the doctor's waiting room. The lady across from me was sitting with a boy who may have been 8 or 9. She told everyone in the room that Georgie had an ear infection.
The kid looked miserable and had a bandage taped over his ear. I felt for him and tried to concentrate on the book I brought with me.
I looked up when the boy groaned and noticed the bandage seemed to be moving. What happened next occurred so quickly I'm not sure I believe what I saw. This is what I think I saw:
Georgie's bandage wiggled then flew away from his head as a creature looking a bit like a snake shot out of his ear hole. The mother turned to face her son and her mouth opened as she started to say something. Instead, this creature flew into the woman's mouth.
For about 10 seconds this thing was partway into the woman's mouth and partway out of Georgie's ear and everyone in the waiting room was screaming and freaking out. Then a nurse charged in, cut the snake into two pieces with some pruning shears, then dropped the shears and yanked out the parts still in the woman's mouth and the boy's ear.
Here's the really weird part: Both ends of this thing had a mouth. It wiggled around with the jaws still snapping before the nurse started slamming both ends onto the floor. That seemed to kill the thing, which I reckon was about 3 feet long.
The woman grabbed her son by the hand and stumbled out the door along with about everyone else in the waiting room.
I was one of three people who stayed, mostly because I'd already forked over the money for the co-pay.
Later the nurse told us the creature was a Mojave Ear Worm. They are fairly rare, thank God, and more often torment desert animals such as rabbits.
Have you ever encountered such a beast or something similar?
The kid looked miserable and had a bandage taped over his ear. I felt for him and tried to concentrate on the book I brought with me.
I looked up when the boy groaned and noticed the bandage seemed to be moving. What happened next occurred so quickly I'm not sure I believe what I saw. This is what I think I saw:
Georgie's bandage wiggled then flew away from his head as a creature looking a bit like a snake shot out of his ear hole. The mother turned to face her son and her mouth opened as she started to say something. Instead, this creature flew into the woman's mouth.
For about 10 seconds this thing was partway into the woman's mouth and partway out of Georgie's ear and everyone in the waiting room was screaming and freaking out. Then a nurse charged in, cut the snake into two pieces with some pruning shears, then dropped the shears and yanked out the parts still in the woman's mouth and the boy's ear.
Here's the really weird part: Both ends of this thing had a mouth. It wiggled around with the jaws still snapping before the nurse started slamming both ends onto the floor. That seemed to kill the thing, which I reckon was about 3 feet long.
The woman grabbed her son by the hand and stumbled out the door along with about everyone else in the waiting room.
I was one of three people who stayed, mostly because I'd already forked over the money for the co-pay.
Later the nurse told us the creature was a Mojave Ear Worm. They are fairly rare, thank God, and more often torment desert animals such as rabbits.
Have you ever encountered such a beast or something similar?
