Spiders
Ok, go on and call me a wimp for what i am about to say, but I HATE SPIDERS!!! It's not something i try to hide either.....i am so scared of them. I'm not really sure why.....i mean they're gross and creepy crawly and some are even deadly, but there are certainly worse things i could be afraid of. My mum said that as a baby, i ate a spider......maybe her freaking out over it gave me my fear, i don;t know. Now they don;t just scare me.....they terrify me. If i see one on a wall in my house i have to leave that room until someone gets rid of it.....heaven forbid i am alone....then i normally get out the vaccum cleaner and suck it up..........sorry if anyone thinks that is cruel.....but thats as close as i care to get to them. If one happens to crawl on me........forget it........i admit i scream like a baby, breaking all sorts of sound barriers.
I'm talking about this because i had an encounter with a big ass spider this weekend.
So there i was at a friends house playing poker...minding my business and taking everyones money (hee hee i was the big winner, but i'm not one to brag) and just as i picked up my cards to look at them.....i felt something on my left wrist....i looked down and saw a huge spider. What happened next was all a blur to me......somehow i knocked it off me.....jumped out of my chair......my cards, poker chips and beer went flying........i did some kind of maneuver into the kitchen....reminded me of the triple jump from Track and field. The whole time iwas so scared that i couldn't even scream.......my friends are looking at me like i'm crazy, until they see the spider. Ricky, to the rescue, picks up the spider and with his buddaesque thinking, places the big ass spider safely outside. Meanwhile, my heart felt like it was going to come out of my chest......it took me a good chunk of time and a couple beers to slow it down and stop my hands from shaking. So there you have it................i'm a complete baby around spiders. It's so girlie of me to be scared of them, i know but i can't help it. Em thinks its funny.........keep laughing ........karma baby. :)
I'm talking about this because i had an encounter with a big ass spider this weekend.
So there i was at a friends house playing poker...minding my business and taking everyones money (hee hee i was the big winner, but i'm not one to brag) and just as i picked up my cards to look at them.....i felt something on my left wrist....i looked down and saw a huge spider. What happened next was all a blur to me......somehow i knocked it off me.....jumped out of my chair......my cards, poker chips and beer went flying........i did some kind of maneuver into the kitchen....reminded me of the triple jump from Track and field. The whole time iwas so scared that i couldn't even scream.......my friends are looking at me like i'm crazy, until they see the spider. Ricky, to the rescue, picks up the spider and with his buddaesque thinking, places the big ass spider safely outside. Meanwhile, my heart felt like it was going to come out of my chest......it took me a good chunk of time and a couple beers to slow it down and stop my hands from shaking. So there you have it................i'm a complete baby around spiders. It's so girlie of me to be scared of them, i know but i can't help it. Em thinks its funny.........keep laughing ........karma baby. :)
3 Comments:
At 10:34 AM, MCSCOTT said…
Don't feel too bad. I am not really scared of them myself, but they piss me off to an extreme extent because of their stupid web placement. It doesn't matter where I am at here lately, if I go outside I somehow manage to walk through a spider web, always right across my face. One of these days I'm gonna go off and kill them all. I do have a buddy of mine that is scared to death of even the smallest spider, and he is about 6'2 and not the kinda person you would think would be scared of anything. I have seen him run completely out of the shop before from just seeing a spider the size of a flea.
At 10:41 AM, Danni said…
Walking into spider webs totally freaks me out.....like you, i always seem to walk into them, and then spend way too much time making sure that there wasn't a spider in the web.
At 12:00 PM, mrskavs said…
I just came acrosse your thoughts page as I was running a search on what happens to a spider when you vaccuum it up - I was trying to make sure its dead in there before I turn it off (lol... it's been running for about 10 minutes now)I'm like you - can't stand em and have had a few nasty run ins. Once I was teaching a water exercise class - I was in the pool for about 1/2 hour and was wet up to my shoulders, it was a senior citizen's class. I got out to demo the leg exercises I wanted them to do when I thought water was dripping down the side of my face so I wiped along my hairline. To my shock and complete dismay a quarter sized brown spider with long spindly legs dropped onto the floor off my fingertips. I tried to freak out quietly since I didn't want any of my class to have a heart attack and motioned for the lifeguard to come over and kill it for me. He only laughed a little bit but I could barely swallow or go on with my class. It had to have been sitting on my head the whole time since I had been in the closet getting out equipment for the class. NOT COOL.
Another time I got up to go to teach lessons one Saturday in the early spring. Being a regular victim of seasonal allergies and post nasal drip I didn't think anything of the tickle in the back of my throat until after several tries to clear it while brushing my teeth I started to gag and spit out a balled up little black spider. It was very easy to identify so probably had only recently gotten in there. YUCK I used the entire remains of the mouthwash gargling repeatedly and was skeeved out the rest of the day. Makes you wonder how true that stat we've all heard about how many you swallow while you're asleep is!
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