Dead in my tracks
I had just finished the seven things meme and was off to get a snack. I turned from the computer and was confronted by this creepy wolf spider. I don't know if you can get a perspective for how big it was, but big enough that the eyes are casting a reflection of the flash. Matt was in putting Howie to bed, so I was all on my own. I grabbed the stereo remote that Howie had dragged in here and I had been using as a doorstop, wrapped it in a napkin that happened to be on my desk and tried to move fast enough to get it. I didn't. It started crawling up the backpack. I flipped the backpack over. It ran across the top. I flipped the bag again and lost sight of it. My legs were feeling all tingly and creepy crawly and I had to step back and out of the office door. Finally, 5 or 6 loooong seconds later, I spotted it on the other side of the office. It was between coils of the vacuum cord, so it had kind of trapped itself. Forget trying to keep the napkin in place; I whacked it with the remote. Disgusting, really, but I did it myself.
Matt would have used his bare hands. That's what kind of man he is. I'm still feeling like something creepy crawly is going to start climbing on me.
***edit 10 minutes later to add*** I just put my feet back down on the floor and stepped on a pokey that had been imported from the back yard. It wasn't a total freak out, but I yelped. I thought maybe the spider's posse had come to seek revenge.
posted by Valarie @ 9:53 PM
6 Comments:
ohhh, you are much braver then I am. I would have screamed and then made Kyle come get it lol. forget putting the kids to bed, that spider is going to eat me!
Way to be brave!
aaack! since i've had kids, i'm getting better about getting rid of bugs, spiders, bees, etc - but something that large would have to deal with my husband!
Wolf spiders are fast! I hate them, hate them I say!
Go you for squishing it! I would've run away and hid :P
Hmmmm....he looks like he could be the cousin of the one that I caught in the basement of mom's house last fall......VERY big. I didn't squish him, I caught him in a container and showed him to Devin in the morning and he killed him by spraying oven cleaner in the container. (He's about as much of sissy as I am about spiders.)
Yikes! That thing is huge!
EWWW!! I hate wolf spiders! Especially mommy ones with gazillion babies on their backs that run into my house and when you spray them (I'm not man enough to touch one) the babies scatter everywhere. EWWW!!
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