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May 15, 2005
a story of my childhood
when i was 4 we lived in a house that had a door leading from the backyard into the garage, which was detached from the main part of the house. in essence, you could walk through the garage to the driveway and the front door. my brother and i used to prowl the backyard, collecting snail shells in mayonnaise jars, inchworms on leaves in mom's old tupperware or margarine tubs, stuff like that.
i came home from school one day and decided to head out to the backyard. it must have been early spring because i was wearing a skirt and red knit socks that i pulled to my knees (we'll get into my childhood wardrobe at another time, i promise). i had taken off my shoes at some point, god knows where they landed. in any case, i was coming through the garage door to get another container to hold another bug when i heard a crunch, then felt something slimy oozing up between my toes. i had stepped on a snail. it felt odd having at once the hardness of the shell under my foot combined with the cold, wet and oddly sticky mess of snail carcass.
it was relatively dark in the garage and i couldn't really see anything, so i picked up my foot, slid off my sock, left it on top of the dead snail and ran out.
these days when i see a snail on the sidewalk or, well, anywhere, really, i have this creepy sensation of it crawling up my back or crunching under my foot. it's all i can do not to scream and run from the thing. we went to collect some recycling from the girlfriend's mom's house and there were snails on the bags and i had to stay on the driveway while they knocked off the buggers and put the bags in the car. then the girlfriend's mom was crushing the snails on the lawn and i had to run out into the street to avoid the sound and utter grossness of it all.
but really, it's not something that bothers me all that much. i mean, they could be cockroaches, but they're snails. they're outdoors. i don't spend much time outdoors.
Posted by musikchyck at May 15, 2005 11:38 AM
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Comments
For some reason, snails don't ick me out, but slugs do- and we all know that slugs are just homeless snails! Weird, huh?
Posted by: fashmagslag at May 15, 2005 02:37 PM
i did that once too before when i was about 8 or 9. i always make sure to step over any snails i see from now on.
Posted by: stkyrice at May 15, 2005 05:17 PM
There is nothing like that crunch under a bare foot. A warning that it's already too late. Eeeeww.
Posted by: daniel at May 15, 2005 06:53 PM
i think it was more traumatic that it came up through my sock first. at least that's how i remember it. ugh!
Posted by: MC at May 15, 2005 10:01 PM
Snails are outdoors.
And you are allergic to the outdoors.
Nuff said.
Posted by: TheGirlfriend at May 15, 2005 10:03 PM
fashmagslag, slugs are oodles more icky than snails. i think it's for the same reason that we should just never ever see certain people naked. ;)
Posted by: tee at May 16, 2005 07:56 PM