Lancalot the Earwig lives in my shower curtain rod

by domani
(dublin, ca)

so at first when i saw the earwig's head poke out of the crack near the tile inside my shower curtain rod, i freaked the freak out. freaked out, ewwww! i associated pincher bugs to dirt, they like dirk and i keep a clean house, plus i live on the 3rd floor of my apt building. well when i couldn't get it out, i figured it'd die in a few days and that would be that. but now it pokes it's head out EVERY time i shower, i have a PEEPING PINCHER BUG! and it's smart, never crawling completely out so i can't get it. then when it disappeared for a couple of days i began to wonder, is it dead. then i started to miss it. day 3 no bug, day 4 no bug, day 5 no bug.....hummm ya must be dead. Eww now i have a earwig morgue in my shower. CALL the Coroner Quick! But alas he came back. So I named him Lancalot. Now when he doesn't poke his head out, i get worried he's dead. Now after reading on your site, holy crap this Lancalot might be a Guineviere and give birth! Then for sure i'd be infested, and likely illegally harboring bugs, that's like subleasing or something. Anyway, how the heck to i get rid of it, because ewwww in the end, it's a freakin bug!! Yuck.

Doug says - take the shower curtain rod down and dump him in the toilet or wash him down the drain in the tub. Drown your sorrows my friend - Lancelot has too much armor and can't swim. He'll perish.