There was this day last year where I and my partner went to one of the local beaches, and we were like day drinking. And there was this, this big little butterfly that was floating around on the beach, and it would land here and there. And I was like, “Oh, I wonder how close I can get to it.”
And so I like, I got down and I started kinda like ground crawling just to see how close I could get to it. And I got it to land on my finger. And I don’t remember exactly what started this, but I was like, “It’s trying to eat something on my finger.” And I don’t know what gave me the idea, but I like, I licked my finger. I don’t remember if it was something I ate or drank, but I wasn’t really thinking about it and I licked my finger and it went right to my finger again and started like eating my spit.
And I was like, “No way.” So like I — it flew away a little bit and then I spat on my finger again and crawled up to it again, and it went right back to my finger and ate some more of my spit. Which is really gross but like, you know, nature’s gross. And then I made the connection, like it’s probably all the sugar in my saliva from the booze that I had been drinking.
And like it kept, like, hanging around and, like would wait for me to like, spit on my finger, to, to drink my spit again. And I’m like, “No way. It’s getting drunk!” Because then like, every time it would take off it’d be a little wobblier and like, “Not, not making so much sense there, butterfly.” I don’t know. It was really funny. I, I like, I stopped after a while, cuz I’m like, “I don’t know how much booze this thing can handle. And I’m pretty freaking drunk right now. I dunno, I don’t want to accidentally kill it.”
So I don’t know. I totally forgot that it happened until I saw that video. I just — it’s a very — I don’t know. I feel like getting day drunk at the beach in summer in Michigan is a very Michigan thing to do. At least in the UP.