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Day 156 - Spiders
Jun. 5th, 2009 11:57 pmHm. I wouldn't say I'm arachnophobic but spiders are not my favourite. I can admire them from a far but I'm not a big fan of when they decide to wander indoors. And I'm not one of those people that can scoop them up and put them outside so I usually end up squishing them or washing them down the drain.
Imagine my joy then when last night I went to put something in the kitchen garbage and there was a huge spider sitting on the floor by the cupboard that has the garbage can. There's actually a little over hang so I didn't even notice it until I was right there. Yay. And when I say huge I mean about three inches not including the legs. Which is probably not huge in the grand scheme of spiders but it's the biggest spider I've ever seen indoors.
I froze. It froze. I imagine we both eye balled each other. It having a distinct advantage there. I backed up to retrieve my spider squasher. I ended trying to shoo it outside since honestly, it was so big I didn't think the squasher would be able to squish it successfully. Of course it didn't shoo but ran off to who knows were. Wunderbar. I slept with the squasher next to the bed.
I hate not knowing where a spider is in relation to me. For the next couple of days it's going to be a bit like those action movies where the hero is trying to find the bad guy first so he's cautiously creeping down corridors and peeking around corners. I can only hope it somehow found its way out again and I don't end up coming across it in the laundry bin or something.
Imagine my joy then when last night I went to put something in the kitchen garbage and there was a huge spider sitting on the floor by the cupboard that has the garbage can. There's actually a little over hang so I didn't even notice it until I was right there. Yay. And when I say huge I mean about three inches not including the legs. Which is probably not huge in the grand scheme of spiders but it's the biggest spider I've ever seen indoors.
I froze. It froze. I imagine we both eye balled each other. It having a distinct advantage there. I backed up to retrieve my spider squasher. I ended trying to shoo it outside since honestly, it was so big I didn't think the squasher would be able to squish it successfully. Of course it didn't shoo but ran off to who knows were. Wunderbar. I slept with the squasher next to the bed.
I hate not knowing where a spider is in relation to me. For the next couple of days it's going to be a bit like those action movies where the hero is trying to find the bad guy first so he's cautiously creeping down corridors and peeking around corners. I can only hope it somehow found its way out again and I don't end up coming across it in the laundry bin or something.
