EWEWEWEWPHOBIA!!!
Oct. 14th, 2005 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiYou know, up until two minutes ago, I would not have considered myself an arachnophobe. Not at all. And I'm generally against the unnecessary killing of critters, even the buggy types.
But...
Okay, I'm the only one still awake. And I just spotted this FUCKING HUGE SPIDER. The lights upstairs are dimmed down, so at first I thought it was a daddy-long-legs, so I thought, oh...maybe I'll carefully scoop it up (or let it run into a plastic jar itself, so it doesn't get harmed) and carry the little thing outside.
I mean, I wasn't going to kiss it or anything - ew, bugs - but letting it go outside, hey, no big deal.
Then I turned on the light. EW-OMFG-WTF-IS-THAT?!! It looks like a baby tarantula or something, with less hair or whatever it is that's on their legs. It's HUGE. It looks like it could practically eat one of my cats.
I don't want to be sexist here and say I freaked out like a little girl, but you know... I think I had less guts in general right then than most little girls. I ever marry, I tell ya, SHE'S the one with bug duty.
So I squished it. I went and got one shoe on and came back...and then chickened out further and went and got the OTHER shoe on that I didn't need and I squished it. Seriously, fuck the carpet...
And then I went and got an empty plastic juice bottle that was going out to be recycled, and a spoon, and I scooped its body into the bottle, and then filled the bottle half-way with water, and went outside and dumped it in the grass. And left the bottle outside, and went in and sterilized the FUCK out of the spoon, and washed my hands with anti-bacterial soap. And I still have creepy-crawlies.
I haven't been flipping every time I see a little spider somewhere in our house - if it's easy to snag, I've been taking it outside, otherwise I let it go. What's a little spider, they aren't hurting anyone, etc.
NOW I will be flushing every little damn bebe spider down the fucking can, now that I know they grow up to look like THAT.
I'm sorry to judge on looks, except...not at all. I don't think I'll sleep well tonight.
SPIDERS EVERYWHERE BEWARE.
But...
Okay, I'm the only one still awake. And I just spotted this FUCKING HUGE SPIDER. The lights upstairs are dimmed down, so at first I thought it was a daddy-long-legs, so I thought, oh...maybe I'll carefully scoop it up (or let it run into a plastic jar itself, so it doesn't get harmed) and carry the little thing outside.
I mean, I wasn't going to kiss it or anything - ew, bugs - but letting it go outside, hey, no big deal.
Then I turned on the light. EW-OMFG-WTF-IS-THAT?!! It looks like a baby tarantula or something, with less hair or whatever it is that's on their legs. It's HUGE. It looks like it could practically eat one of my cats.
I don't want to be sexist here and say I freaked out like a little girl, but you know... I think I had less guts in general right then than most little girls. I ever marry, I tell ya, SHE'S the one with bug duty.
So I squished it. I went and got one shoe on and came back...and then chickened out further and went and got the OTHER shoe on that I didn't need and I squished it. Seriously, fuck the carpet...
And then I went and got an empty plastic juice bottle that was going out to be recycled, and a spoon, and I scooped its body into the bottle, and then filled the bottle half-way with water, and went outside and dumped it in the grass. And left the bottle outside, and went in and sterilized the FUCK out of the spoon, and washed my hands with anti-bacterial soap. And I still have creepy-crawlies.
I haven't been flipping every time I see a little spider somewhere in our house - if it's easy to snag, I've been taking it outside, otherwise I let it go. What's a little spider, they aren't hurting anyone, etc.
NOW I will be flushing every little damn bebe spider down the fucking can, now that I know they grow up to look like THAT.
I'm sorry to judge on looks, except...not at all. I don't think I'll sleep well tonight.
SPIDERS EVERYWHERE BEWARE.
