Last week, Bart found a brown recluse in our master bathroom. Like. 5 feet from where I sleep. Now, I don't like tiny little baby house spiders. AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA. I didn't sleep much that night. And I literally made Bart stand outside the bathroom door while I got ready for bed in case another one should happen to try to eat me while my defenses were down. Seriously! I thought brown recluses were reclusive...but it went running TOWARDS Bart when he tried to get a closer look at it. I was doing some reading (Um, don't google spiders after finding one in your home if you ever want to sleep again) and I guess that some of them do that because they see your clothing as a hiding place. And then you move wrong to tick it off and it bites you. And I really shouldn't say tick because it was just two weekends ago when we had the whole tick bite fiasco. BUGS!! AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA.
But whatever. Life goes on. I mean, we got over the whole wolf spider with hundreds of babies on its back from last fall, right? Or maybe not...since Bart found another mama wolf spider with hundreds of babies on her back AGAIN this morning. Look, I know wolf spiders aren't that big of a deal but they're big...and HELLO THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BABIES THAT COULD GROW INTO BIG SPIDERS AND HAVE HUNDREDS OF BABIES. In my house. AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA. Here is an example, for your cathartic viewing pleasure.
And then, there's the fact that I have a 3 year old BOY who likes BOY things. I was cleaning up and organizing toys (knowing fully well they would stay organized for about 60 seconds) and found a little black travel bag that I gave Dave to stow his stuff in. It seemed empty so I was going to put some little miscellaneous toys in it. I opened the bag up to stuff it and AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA!!!!!
BIG.....GIANT....
oh. Fake spider. About the same time I screamed and threw it down on the ground at my knees I remembered...Fake. Fake. Fake. ALSO at the same time....A REAL spider came scurrying out of the same bag. Commence screaming again.
AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA.
I think spiders are cool. I'm not so excited about poisonous ones though. We don't have brown recluses but we do have hobo spiders which are in the same family and are equally as dangerous. I looked online and found some hobo spider traps. It's just a sticky piece of paper but it has hobo spider pheromones on it, so they are attracted to it and get stuck. I thought that was a good solution because the other spiders eat various bugs that I like less than spiders.
ReplyDeleteYou could probably find something similar to that for the brown recluses. Or you could pay someone to spray for everything. Or you could just keep saying AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA, which is easily the most amusing option.
Josie - that is hillarious!!! I want to hear you say that some time!!! AWOEIFJAWIVKSEIDFJAWIOA. But I hope it's not the same time you see a spider because I am sure your shriek will leave me deaf for life! hahahahaha
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