Yum, not really

In my second year teaching, a girl brought me a chocolate covered grasshopper and told me if I would eat it, she'd give me a pin that said, "I ate a grasshopper." She told me it was a national club and she wore her pin proudly. Reluctantly, I ate the chocolate nugget, thinking it was a joke. It wasn't. I earned a pin.

Yesterday, running, some sort of large bug flew in my mouth and crawled in my throat until it gave up. I tried to cough it out, but was unsuccessful. It reminded me of the chocolate covered grasshopper and the pin I once wore.

Yuck. A big, quirky, Yuck.