I wonder how aliens will react to our communal grooming instinct? Like when you see something stuck to your homieβs clothes/skin/hair and itβs driving you nuts and you just gotta be like βhold still, lemme get that for you real quick.β
One time when I was a kid, I had a science teacher with a snake as a class pet, and said snake was almost done shedding. There was one little bit of dried skin stuck to its face and I was like, βwould it hurt him if I pulled that off?β And the teacher said, βyes it actually could, itβs probably still attached to living skin if it hasnβt come off yetβ and I was like βoh, sorry,β and he said, βthatβs okay, you were just wanting to do the primate thing.β And damn, thatβs such an accurate descriptor.
Anyways I hope aliens donβt mind me/my descendants having the urge to pluck stuff off of them. If they ask, weβll have to tell them itβs a trait we evolved to survive ticks.























