The Depths of the Ear Canal

After lunch recently, a child came up to me and said: "Miss Rachel, will you look inside my ear?" I knelt down, looked at his ear, and asked what was wrong. Then he said, "Can you see anything?" I responded that it was dark and pretty hard to see in there and he said: "Can you look in there and see if there's something in there?" I looked again and told him that he had a little scratch outside his ear, but that it looked OK inside and he walked off.

Then he went to the other teacher in the room and said, "There's something in my ear. Could you stick your finger in there and get it out?!"