trials and tribulations
July 12th, 2007spiders.
i don’t need to say any more.
go on then, you twist my arm! you see living alone for the first time has taught me many things, i can now balance things whilst holding doors open, put beds together… ok, so that’s about all that i’ve learned, but still! the last night, i had to learn something i never thought would happen to me - facing a spider, duh duh dum! (i sang that btw)
you see, i was leaning out of the window to get a signal for my macbook when i turned around to see the little horror crawling across the carpet. only it wasn’t little. it was big. and black. with thick fury legs. and fangs. ok, that took things a bit too far didn’t it? this was where i was faced with a dilemma - was i to kill it or pick it up and take it into the garden. i chose to do neither and sprinted to my camera to take a picture of it…
now i’m sorry, but you can actually see it’s green beady eye. that is not nice. anyone that knows me will know that is my greatest fear. i dithered and dathered and couldn’t decide what to do, so whilst trying to keep one eye on him (you must never lose sight of them because then you could lose them, fall asleep and it could climb in your mouth!), i scrambled to find a magazine. i had considered sucking it up with a vacuum but someone once told me that they breed inside of your vacuum and have babies which then come after you!
having found a magazine, i put on my highest heels - trying to put as much space between me and it as possible and started the challenge of trying to capture the damn thing to put it in the garden.
the result?
spilled beer all over the carpet! now i know they tell you not to cry over spilled milk but does the same go for beer?
got the little blighter in the end though and he’s now living next door, although i’m still suffering with the trauma of the whole situation!
July 12th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Actually, it’s not your mouth the crawl down while you’re asleep: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070506/K05069AU.html
July 12th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Thanks for putting my mind at ease - I’ll now never sleep ever again, die of sleep deprivation and it will be on your conscience forever!
July 12th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
There’s a simple solution, make sure you wear your ipod headphones 24 hours a day…
July 12th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
What if there’s a spider in your bag which climbs into the ear pieces, lays its eggs and then you put them in your ears! eeek! All I can say, is that it’s a good job I don’t live in Australia - they have spiders which live in the toilet! ouch!