Brave Sir Popkin

[popkin16]

 (but only because brave ma'am popkin doesn't sound right)

There was a spider in my bedroom, hanging about an inch above my bed.

It sat there, mocking me. Terrifying me.

After a good 20 minutes of flailing and trying to calm myself, I took a deep breath and grabbed it with some paper towel and threw it away.

I am now jittery.

And paranoid. What if it hunts me down now?

Oh god I don't think I squished it, which means it's still alive AND COMING FOR ME.

brb moving to the antarctic. There's no spiders there, right?

Comments

[popkin16]

I got bit in the 80's on the side of my eye and I couldn't see very well for over a week and I had to wear sunglasses all the time because I couldn't take the least bit of light. I hate spiders!!!

Oh wow! As if I needed another excuse to be terrified of them! I'm impressed you manage to kill them - I can barely stand to be in the same room with them, and I don't have your horrifying experiences.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

I don't really go out of my way to kill them unless they are in my space or in my way to my space. I hate to kill things but I don't want the problems that come from a bite. That was just 2 examples of bites from 2 different spiders. I used to have a tarantula as a pet when I was younger but after going to Mexico to visit my aunt (after she decided she hated American politics) and she told me the as large as a tarantula spiders on the walls were harmless spiders only to find out they were poisonous as hell I decided I hated spiders. If I can’t track something that moves with my eyes (and these suckers could do that and you could see them watching you because if you came anywhere near them they took off like a shot) then it needs to die! I had actually killed one by using a large book and making out like I was heading in a different direction. I slammed that sucker but good. But they were all over.

Not looking to scare you hon just letting you know they are all not as harmless as they look.

[popkin16]

DDDDDDDDDDDDD: I am never going Mexico, it seems. I'd never sleep!

Not looking to scare you hon just letting you know they are all not as harmless as they look.

Haha, I think you've succeeded in doing both, tbh. I don't plan on ever getting near enough a spider for its poisonous state to be a threat - I want to stay far, far away from them.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

LOL, spider spray works wonders (by the bucket load!).

[popkin16]

God, I bet it does, too!