Crisis Averted!

There was a moth in the house.

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A MOTH IN MY HOUSE!

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Now, I find moths a little creepy at the best of times -but some of them like eating fibers. That's creepy, as Z accurately observed. So, I'm sitting on the couch, ignoring the end of the football game, browsing through Ravelry*, and a tiny moth goes fluttering by.

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A MOTH GOES FLUTTERING BY!

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I gasp, and say a "A MOTH!". And then, because I've just finished a delicious savory lemon tart from Nectar, and there is more saliva in my mouth than the norm, I guess, and I'm so horrified by THE MOTH, I, erm, I aspirated my own spit. And then I started coughing. Because I'm torn between KILLING IT, catching it & releasing it (my usual house-bug policy), and struggling for air.

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The man looked over from the game. "Are you okay?"

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*gasp*"A moth! Kill it! THE MOTH! KILL IT!" *sputter*

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"It's just a moth."

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*cough*"THEY EAT YARN!" (Sometimes**.)

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The man looked at me. I did my best to look earnest, sane, & I like I needed that moth killed, while trying to recover from almost choking on my own saliva, & fighting the urge to go & throw my body in front of my yarn cabinet.

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The man sighed. "Okay, well, just calm down. Where'd he go?" My eyes got a little crazy, I suspect, and he suggested that I turn a light on & we'll get him once he settles by it.

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I turn my spotlight for knitting at the couch on. The moth circles. I try not to gasp again. The man circles in, lethally brandishing his paper. I'm dancing from foot to foot, still sputtering a bit.

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POW! BLAMMO! ZAP! BIF! (Okay, it was more like "Smack", but it's so rarely that I get to use Batman sound effects on this blog.) Disaster averted.

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I think.

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I'm checking my stash tomorrow. It's almost all in ziploc bags (other than the bad yarn that I don't like any more), and I check it every month or so***, but still. You can never be to careful.

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*Are you on Ravelry yet? If you're a knitter, get yourself to Ravelry!

**Sometimes, some types. I'm willing to condemn an entires species to save my stash.

***Yes, I do. Z just asked. I mean, honestly, it's more like I visit my stash every month or so, and moth inspection is just part of the standard check-up.