My great Uncle Charlie was an avid tobacco chewer. If I remember correctly, 

his brand was Beech Nut...along with a few million other people!

Anyhow he tells the story of driving somewhere one time with the car's vent

windows open. Remember vent windows? Those small, usually triangular shaped

windows in front of the regular car window which one could 

open and reverse and blow in cooling air? Well, as cool as outside air

can be...at least you felt cooler as the air flow evaporated the sweat

covering your body! Yeh, well before car air conditioning came along.

Uncle Charlie's story is that a "tumblebug" (some refer to them as a 

"tumbleturds")...in any event these beetle creatures rolled cow dung into 

little balls. 

I know not what they did with these balls of cow feces. I guess somewhere 

in God's grand design there is a purpose. I don't have the get-go to 

research it.

Anyhow, Uncle Charlie's story is he and Aunt Mable were driving somewhere

with the said vent windows open. Evidently a "tumblebug" flew in the

open vent window and landed in Uncle Charlie's pouch of Beech Nut.

Yep, you guessed it; On his next "chaw", said "tumblebug" ended up

in Uncle Charlie's mouth!

Uncle Charlie had no teeth...and I don't ever remember him having false

ones. I guess he just rolled the thing around on his gums thinking it

was a chunk of tobacco 'til he realized what was going on. (Probably felt

it wiggle!!)

(Reminds me of the time a fly got in my potato chips at Magnesia

Springs!!! But, that's another story!)