Fairies with flashlights?

What’s that you say?

Picture this…middle of the night something aroused me (ok, get it out of the gutter, I mean I woke up).

I opened the eye. No muggers or monsters. Just a cat shifting around in his bed.

But I see a tiny light.

Y’all know I’m OCD about some things. Little tiny lights are just on everything. Dishwasher saying the load is clean, washer saying get this in the dryer. Dryer saying unload me. Coffee maker, Microwave, anything you’re charging. Little tiny lights. Some red, some orange. Nice blue on the computer. 100s. In this house.

I’ve made a thread about it before, I believe.

But this is different.

I look and see a flickering light just under the edge of my dresser. I watch for a minute. I think I might’ve dozed awhile. When I opened my eyes it was gone. Oh…there it is. It moved down about 2 ft.

What?! Electronics don’t walk around.

Dang. I gotta investigate this.

I look for the tiny red light on my bedside flashlight always plugged to the charger. See the light from the clock. Press the time button, I know where is, by…you guessed it; a tiny light.

It’s 3:11am.

Got my flashlight. I kneel down and there’s no tiny light. Where’d it go?

Oh. It’s now on the side of the chest, I saw it move. WTH?

I saw the flickering yellow. I flipped on my flashlight and honest to God, wings were flapping making a big shadow on the wall.

I sat back on my butt, a bit concerned it was that mythical winged lizard man come to bite me. (Hey, I seen it on the TV, the CTers were very convincing).

Jumped up and turned on the lights and it was teeny wing-ed glowing fairy.

My new BFF!

Don’t worry, Beck.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also taken in.

Now, if they begin asking you for money, post on the 'Dope. We are here for you.

-Carnie.

You mean lightning bug? Or fire fly? Or glow worm?

I know one name…Lightnin’ bug.

We don’t got no steekin’ glow worms. :grinning_face: :bug:

B.F.F.

Beck’s fairy w/flashlight. :rofl:

According to my poll, more than half of Dopers call them fireflies and less than 20% call them lightning bugs. Personally, I’m in the lightning bug camp. A firefly is a type of spaceship.

I desperately wanting to know what a glo-worm is. But I’m afraid to Google it.

:scream:

Was it wearing boots?

Yeah, little fuzzy :high_heeled_shoe: high heels.

Fairies Wear Boots

Glow worms are the wingless larvae of lightning bugs. They glow when they are larvae as well as adults. Some other insects glow as larvae but not as adults; these can also be called glow worms. Most of them are not particularly creepy looking, as insects go.

They’re also these things, which are only slightly creepy:

They’ve changed a lot. I still have mine from when I was a toddler, way back in the 1980s.

I remember that the batteries in it lasted an insanely long time. I found it after almost or over two decades, and it would still glow. I genuinely didn’t know batteries could last that long, even when not used.

Aaaaaaaccckkkk. I’ll have nightmares instead of fairies with flashlights.

Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
Hey, there don’t get dimmer, dimmer
Light the path below, above
And lead us on to love!

The Mills Brothers (1959)

Aww. Sweet sentiment.

:blush: I didn’t know you cared so much.

:rofl:

Named after what exactly?

Somehow I knew aliens where coming into this.

“No, I just work in Outer space”… Kirk

My favorite glow worm:

Or the Mills Brothers’ version, if you want a straight performance.

“I can’t take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk…” Cripple creek.

Named after Bob.

Bob Firefly.

What?

You crack me up @Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Bob’s your uncle.

:rofl: