Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Conversations II

packing to leave our hideaway (M gone the night before)
I see a spider in my bag

not like the spider in the shower
this one is more
hmmm
spidery
shaped like a black widow
but not one
well -- I didn't roll her over to check

I shook the bag upside down
nothing

she laughed at me
"I'm a spider... I'm not going to FALL - doofus"

I shook the bag harder pushing out the thoughts of how long she's been in there
trying not to wonder if I brought her back from where-Aisha-lives
ignoring that she's been in there with my panties

nothing

I realize that I'm shaking the bag over my own feet
this is going to end -- not in tears -- in screams

so I move to the bathroom
and shake her over the shower

(BTW -- all spiders are female -- all crickets are male -- weird huh?  I blame charlotte's web)

I begin to shake it frantically -- hoping to make this new home less hospitable -- ok -- freaking out a bit.
after three or four more spastic hard shakes I see her - -not in she shower -- but on the bathroom floor.

I retreat

after a moment's thought I shut the door.

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M:  another spider? 

Yeah -- I got her out of the bag in the bathroom --

Did you squash it?

No -- I just shut the door

Baby do you think the spider is too big to fit under the door?

No, too short to reach the handle.
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8 comments:

  1. oatmeal girlJuly 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    Love it.

    I'm looking for a new renter for the dungeon bedroom. You would never do. I have lots of spiders...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 12, 2011 at 9:01 AM

    So let me get this straight if I close the door the spider won't stay?
    I am going to have to rethink my bug trapping strategies.
    Lol

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  3. AliceJuly 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    Now, at least you are brave enough to believe that if you shut the bathroom door, leaving the spider in there, it will not sneak it's way into another room, your bed, your drawers, your clothes... etc. Me, I wouldn't have been able to use that bag at all. I would have zipped it up and thrown it out, goodbye bag, goodbye spider. Time to buy a new one.

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  4. sinJuly 12, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    You guys are funny. I also hate, hate HATE spiders. You can't just leave them, you have to eradicte them. Go get your shoes and step on them. You are bigger than they are. Really. This will work.

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  5. AliceJuly 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    sin, spiders are faster, sneakier, and trickier than I though!

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  6. strivingforpeaceJuly 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM

    I love you guys

    I wish I could tell you this is the last spider post

    but I fear it is not

    and Alice -- I would have to MOVE too

    sfp

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  7. AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 4:31 AM

    Omigosh, LOL.. I think closing the door on it works, so if you brought it from Where-i-Live, it was a perfectly acceptable strategy.

    Just saying.

    aisha

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  8. AliceJuly 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM

    SFP, oddly when Chess and I lived in AZ we saw zero spiders in our home. Now that we live in the northwest, well there are parts of our home I just will not go because the spiders come back, even after Chess has killed them all. How sad is that.

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