Ah, October weather is here. And with it comes the crisp, cool air, foggy mornings, and brightly coloured leaves that fall gently into the storm drain and clog it until a city works crew comes around to clear it up.

It's strange, but since the summer weather faded away, getting to work has been a regular gauntlet of hazards. There was the damp jeans episode the other day, which I've recovered from I'm happy to say. And today... today marked the annual return of the Green Menace.

Do you get these things where you live? From the rows of oak trees lining the streets, there are millions of tiny, wriggling, green worms that dangle from threads of silk. Walking under these trees is actually hazardous, since you have to push through curtains of these things.

And inevitably, some will stick to you, so that later in the morning when you're in the middle of an important meeting, unbeknownst to you, one of them will be crawling over the corner of your glasses. Or on your lapel. Or in your hair.

Nobody says anything either. Maybe no one wants to interrupt a conversation to say, "Excuse me, but you have a worm crawling out of your ear."

I wish somebody would do something about those things. They're a menace... a menace, I tell you!