was lying in bed, reading, when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, up on the ceiling. I put my magazine down and looked up to try to really focus on that spot and see if there was truly something there. Yes! There it was again...it moved! What is that? I watched it come down lower, lazily and silently through the air to Unsuspecting Hal's side of the bed. He snored softly, totally unaware. I realized it was one of those "mosquito eaters" (which, it turns out, don't eat mosquitoes at all, dammit). It was all tangled up in some cobwebs and now, weighted down, was sloooowly crashing as gravity overwhelmed its aerodynamics. Like a helicopter trying to stay airborne but about to crash...in very slow motion....down, down, down.....I, on the other hand, leaped from the bed JUST as it landed on my pillow! Exactly where my head had been! Yikes!!
I grabbed my magazine and rolled it up to swat at the evil thing, when it went under the bed on my side. I stood there, barely breathing, waiting for it to surface again. How could I go to sleep, knowing that it was inches from my body, ready to ascend, and land on me?! After 10 (yes, TEN) long minutes, I finally convinced myself that most likely it was hopelessly tangled up in the dust bunnies under the bed and wouldn't be able to fly. I got back into bed, read for a while more (and, I confess, looked to the side more than a couple of times) and finally turned out the light.
That's when I started worrying whether or not a mosquito eater can crawl.....
