I hate spiders! The house I lived in as a teenager had some of THE biggest house spiders I have ever seen. One of these spiders decided to challenge me to a battle one evening...
To get to the kitchen from my room I had to come down the stairs, walk through the living room to the kitchen. On this particular night I was on my way to get a snack, halfway through the living room I see the biggest, ugliest spider. Needless to say it stopped me dead in my tracks. I was paralyzed with indecision... should I go back up stairs or should I kill it and get my snack??
As I was standing there trying to make up my mind the spider turned in my direction and proceeded to come towards me. Being the brave person that I am, I squeaked and jumped on the couch. Now I have never seen a spider come towards a person on purpose... usually they run the other way.... not this spider. He (I know it was a he cuz he had the huge sperm sacks on the front of his face.... which then I thought were protruding eyes.)continued to come towards me, up onto the skirt of the couch to the cushion. At this point I knew he was coming for me.
I jumped off of the couch to a spot nearer to the kitchen, turned, thinking "Ok... he just wanted to get on the couch... it can't be after me." Wrong! He was in the process of climbing back off the couch and heading in my direction. By this point I thought that someone had cast a spell on this evil thing and it was out to kill me.
It got about 2 feet from me and stopped. I just stood there and stared at it thinking "If I turn my back, that's it... it's gonna jump on me and deliver the fatal bite.(I know house spider can't kill you... but hey.. I was a teenage girl... anything can happen when you're 15!)I knew I had to stand there and face it or parish while trying to make a hasty retreat.
Mustering all the courage I could manage, I grab the reference book, turned, leaned over and dropped the book on top of the spider. Wasting no time, knowing that if I did, the spider would hurl the book back at me, I jumped on top of the book and did a lil "Bug Scootin Boogey". I could not bring myself to lift the book and look, so I left it for my Dad to take care of when he got home.
Never again have I had such an epic battle with a spider... but my snack never tasted so good as when it was served with victory.
So... spiders beware... I still have the book.>:P
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