It is common knowledge that when a certain movie called, "Arachnaphobia", is watched that the fear of spiders is certain to follow. This fear is not understood by my normally-understanding husband who makes light of it and even threatens to bring spiders that he captures near me.
Obviously he has never seen "Arachnaphobia".
This is a relevant fact, because while I was gathering my things together to go to work, I happened to glance down and see a humongous animal-like spider sitting casually in a gift bag that I sometimes use to carry Joshua's toys. For a split second I thought that it couldn’t be real and Tim must be playing a cruel joke on me. Oh no...it was real. The pictures don’t do it justice because his legs were all scrunched up and I wasn't going to get any closer – with legs extended he was probably the size of my palm.
I calmly held the bag at arms length and carried the creature outside where I was going to take another picture. However, due to the loud rustling inside the bag I thought it best not to sport with it and threw the bag near some bushes and proceeded to do the heeby jeeby dance as soon as I was safely back inside (To Joshua's great amuzement...or confusion - I'm not quite sure which). I told Tim that he will be spraying and he was surprised of how big the spider actually was - which gives me a small satisfaction that I, Rebecca Skaggs, got rid of it.
Here is the culprit:
Why didn't I kill it?
- I thought about it but then I imagined the crunch and cringed.
Why didn't I vacuum it up?
- Only my friend, Marilyn, could be so level-headed in such a moment.
Why didn't I capture it?
- Are you insane?
I HATE spiders!!! Wow you are brave though to pick up the bag!! I always make Dan take care of any spiders in our place...they give me the creeps!!
ReplyDeleteSpiders can render the best of the heeby jeeby dance out of me. I hate them! Walking into a spider web though is by far worse than spotting one close to me. Luckily I haven't seen too many jumbo spiders out here. Look, I just jinxed myself.
ReplyDeleteThat is a huge spider! Personally, I save my dancing for the rodents.
ReplyDeleteI have Rachel take care of most of my pest control needs. She calmly and humanely removes them out of doors while I watch from a safe distance. ;)