During the fall in third grade I was raking leaves in my backyard with Mom. A few days before I was in a park and saw two boys playing in a creek catching and eating minnows, I thought this was really gross and I would never eat anything while it was living.
I remember thinking about this while raking leaves really fast and chewing a huge piece of "bubble tape" chewing gum (probably upwards of 16"). As I chewed I had to open my mouth. All of a sudden a grasshopper jumped out of the leaf pile and landed right in my mouth! I quickly spit out what I thought was the grasshopper and kept chewing. It was a cold day outside for Florida and my mouth was a little numb. After several crunches I realized it was the gum I spit out and the bug was now squirming around in pieces on my tongue!
