Out in the park, after school, two amateur entomologists (the Boy and his best friend) explore the world around them. The best friend has some sort of necklace in which are stored captured bugs. I wondered when hearing of this, how this could be other than an instrument of torture for the bug. My wife, who was relating the story to me, mentioned off-hand how she should have made sure the boy had his bug vacuum, which is exactly what it sounds like. A little dust buster type contraption to suck up and store the bugs in a plastic tube for the purpose of ... observation (yeah, right). These contraptions seem completely designed for little boys and just stop short of actually pulling wings off flies.
So anyway, the Boy and his pal are out playing with bugs and the pal is constantly shaking the necklace that has the bug inside of it.
Boy: Stop it! You're going to make it even more dead!
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