DO NOT put things resembling a stick in ANY of your bodily openings!

[LuckyCharms]

[Harker]

1. I worked for a guy who was hard of hearing.

He tried everything. Ear wax removal products, ear candles.

Finally he went to a doctor, who removed the cigarette papers he'd jammed in there at a concert decades earlier.

[NightWatcher]

2. I used to sleep w earplugs when I worked on a ship

One night I had a realistic fevered dream that I had pushed one ear plug too far into my ear and I could feel it rolling around in my hollow head, like a marble in an empty coffee can. I panicked for about a minute or two before I realized I was not well.

I also often fall asleep with a single ear bud in my ear, only to be waked by a call or text sound. They are super comfortable and you hardly know they're there.