And NOT involve things that slither and hiss.
The scene:
Sitting at desk, on phone with client.
Children with Dear Husband to my right on the couch.
It's warm, so I'm in shorts as usual.
Now, I have a couple of .. well, *issues*, I guess would be a polite way to put it, about things that are small, creepy, crawly, and of the insect./ arachnid variety. Spiders are at the top of my Freak Me OUT List. They WERE in the number 1 spot, until the Great Snake Incident of September. Now SNAKES are in the number 1 spot. Fang things anyways...
As I am on the phone with my client, it was all I could do NOT to scream. (I do believe I did in fact squeak pathetically despite my best efforts at freaking the f*ck out in silence.)
Something.
Walked.
On.
My.
Thigh.
SomethingWalkedOnMyTHIGHDangit!!!!
Cept it really *wasn't* something walking on my thigh. Oh no. It was merely Merp, slipping under the desk, come to sit next to her Mom as she always does. Merp's whiskers made the "walking" sensation across my thigh.
Yep. One more life gone off of Mrs Mom.
Stay spider free y'all......
(And yes, my client, the Locust Brothers AND Dear Husband all laughed themselves sick over my reaction. I think even MERP was laughing at the entire thing.)
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I had a praying mantis - a huge green one - fall out of the hay loft on me - that did produce some dancing . . . and I don't dance!
A couple days ago, I came in from unloading hay from the truck. I was standing in the kitchen talking with Juanita when I felt a small piece of hay in my ear. I scraped it out with my finger, and as I looked at it, it jumped off my finger. Hay flakes rarely jump, so I did a major hat dance on the floor where it landed. Don't know if I killed it, but I'm sure I scared the bejeebers out of it (in return for what it did to me).
Bill
That creepy crawling feeling of SomeThing walking on you... I did it to myself with stray hair from my ponytail sliding over the collar of my shirt onto my collarbone.
Now THAT is embarrassing!
It's just cold enough that all the spiders are sneaking in my house. Do you want to know how I know this? You don't, but I'll tell you anyway: I put on a hoodie and felt a HUGE SPIDER ON MY ARM INSIDE THE HOODIE. Thank god it was a zip up - I started screaming and yanked it off faster than a stripper who saw a Benjamin. Stomped the sweatshirt for a while, then investigated and found a quarter-sized corpse. I had the shuddering heebiejeebies all day.
Oh boy!!! I woulda jumped if I thought it was a mouse so I can't laugh
I'm still pissed at the whole "sitting in shorts" bit. It's effing snowing here. SNOWING!
I don't like creepy crawly things either. EGADS! At least you don't have black widows like we do. Yucky.
Thanks for the laugh, tho.
Just because I love you, I'm not going to scar you with the story of how I was sitting on our newly carpeted living room floor, and absentl running my hands over the little loose curls that were left. And how I didn't feel what felt like a string and rolled it between my forefinger and thumb without looking at it.
And how I had it rolled up when it MOVED and I screamed and the neighbors nearly called the cops.
No, I wouldn't tell you that. I like ya too much.
ugh - I hate spiders too. My hubby finds it hilarious as well - I feel your pain! lol :-D
You had me feeling imaginary creepy things!
My creepy thing in the south were ticks. I could feel those suckers and wake from a sound sleep, trying hard not to scream!
Oy! Merp! Don't do that to yer mom!
Dude and I have been having hose wars with a giant, hairy spider who insists on making her (his?) home on one of the stall rafters. It's big and creepy! The first time we saw it, the spider was slowly dropping down towards Dude while he was watering. *shudder* I think we got it the other day after spraying it down and jumping on it in a dirty stall. I hope anyways.
Bwahahaha!
Okay, so much for posturing-- I couldn't even READ Funder or Rachel's stories!
Oh I HATE that! I had a lake spider crawl up my leg when I was a kid and I NEVER forgot it! It was as big as a coffee cup counting the legs!!! Makes we wince just thinking about it! I don't particularly like spiders either especially BIG ones!!!!!!! Shorts??????? We had snow this weekend!!!!
I'm passing out Halloween candy but only have had 10 so far. Slow night. Usually have at least 30. Just think of all the candy I will have to eat!!!!! xoxoxo
Too funny! I have the same reaction to all things creepy crawly, especially spiders.
Just today, I had to do some pretty fancy maneuvering in the shower because there was a huge spider on the wall, trying to make it's way downward - potentially into my hair! Thank God I had my contacts in or I would've never seen the danger!
Stay spider free yourself! ;)
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