Oh ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Yesterday, I opened my fridge and something fluttered around INSIDE IT!.

It was a medium sized flying bug thing that I do not ever really recall seeing before and one hundred percent not inside my apartment nevermind inside my FRIDGE!! AAAAAHHHH!!

It seemed attracted to the fridge light so I pushed the thing that turns the light off but it flew to the back of the fridge which was worse and is when I said what is the title of this post... oh absolutely NOT!

So I got a cup and a flashlight and tried to lure it forward but that didn't work and I didn't want it to like settle in there and no I wasn't able to squish it for many reasons, so then I let the light go back on and when it got near to that I caught it in the cup but I wasn't thinking clearly and when I dragged the cup out of the fridge it FLEW UP AND HIT ME ON MY CHEEK AND I CAN STILL FEEL IT!!!!!

But at least it was out of my fridge, which I quickly closed and then got my swiffer to poke it down from the ceiling and capture it in the glass and escort it outside.

And then?

I composted, like took outside to the big compost bin, ALL of my opened veg.  The remaining bok choy that I didn't suspect as a source and the "pre washed" salad pack that I 100% suspect as the source of this creature that should NOT have been in my fridge.  I had just opened it the day before and it must have... I dunno, awoken? when I took it out of the fridge to open and gotten out but in the fridge I don't know!  I just knew I wanted all of the potential sources of flying insects out of my fridge and that I would never eat veg again and maybe never eat food again at all.

Why do I think this thing came out of something in my fridge rather than got INTO my fridge via my apartment?

In part because it was large enough that I would have noticed it flying around and I don't have my fridge open long enough for something to fly *in* so the horrible reminder that there are bugs and things in and on and around our food all the time has been shaken into my brain and it's going to take me a while to get over that!

And yeah, probably not buying that salad pack thing again.  (Even though it was made in Canada which is why I got it in the first place!)

And also, this may be mean of me but I hope the insect got eaten by a bird once I put it outside.  I don't wish it a happy long life, I wish it its place in the cycle of life.  Gah. 

(Oh and then later I went to make something and discovered mold on my cheese so it just wasn't a good fridge/food day in general!  The cheese is on me though for wrapping it wrong once opened.)