The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for August 14, 2023

No Koko. A dead bug is a good bug.

He just did.

We say good bye, to a bug named, Matt. He hit my windshield, and went, SPLAT!

You’re lucky to still have enough bugs to hit the windshield. In Europe the bug population fell by nearly 90%. We don’t have bug fenders anymore, or bugs on the windshield.

The last thing to go through a bugs mind when it hits the windshield? It’s back legs.

Drive through South Dakota if you want bugs…….

I believe in you. The aberration that Gaia gave birth to is destroying the world. Here in Brazil, in the countryside where I live, the number of bees has dropped absurdly. It is an indelible sadness for us who love and respect nature.

SMEAR, SMEAR, SMEAR, SMEAR.

Not really.

I keep seeing the start to MIB.

If you find bed bugs in your bed, where would you find cockroaches?

One bug to another upon seeing a third one smashed into a windshield:

“Man, that sure took guts.”

Second bug: “Yeah, but he ain’t got the guts to do it AGAIN.”

The “few words” would undoubtedly include, "Oh, crap! now it’s smeared across the entire windshield (windscreen to you Brits…)

Yes we shall say a few words! Streaked the h e l l all over the the windshield…

I hope it wasn’t a bee. In the rare event I kill a bug (instead than simply evicting it from the house), I usually threw it in the toilet, flush, shake my left pant leg (or pretend to), while saluting with the other hand and playing “The Silence”, imitating a trumpet. “A funeral at sea”, I call it. But it’s a rare event, ’cause I have screens and I usually try to throw out the occasional spiders or flies.

every time a bug splats on our windshield i pause to wonder about the many bikers without a face mask we see roaring down the road. hit a bug, that’s gotta smart…

He did. The words are “turn on the windshield washer”.