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[essayel]

Well, we've had a couple of fairly shitty weeks so I haven't bothered to post when all I'd do is whinge. However, now we are more or less back on an even keel so I thought I'd share another one of my "True Life Adventures" with you just to make you wish I'd go away again.

Now the thing to remember about Michael is that although he is 6 foot two and looks like Legolas's taller skinnier brother, he is in some ways stil just a bit of a lad. We had taken his girlfriend home and were driving back when he let's out a yip and shrinks away to the other side of the car. "Spider" he squeaks (seeing Return of the King was a bit of a chore for him). There, swinging gently from the rear view mirror is a little round yellow money spider. Naturally I make suitably unimpressed noises along the lines of 'it's tiny you wuss, look it can only be a couple of millimetres across'. He relaxed and settled down and laughed.
"Good job it wasn't a big one," he said - knowing very well the limits of my tolerance.
I think you can probably guess the rest...how, as I put the car into reverse to go up the drive, another much larger spider swung in like Tarzan to grab and murder the little yellow one, how suddenly there were two shrieks and the car came shuddering to a stalled halt as we both bailed out - Mike one side and me the other - leaving the doors open and more or less Apparating a good ten feet away to stand panting with controlled terror. Then we caught each others eye and fell about laughing.
I, vastly brave, felt I couldn't abandon the motor halfway across the road so I got back in and discovered that the 'enormous'spider was a good centimetre long. Mike walked home though. We'll never live it down.

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[annamissperfect.livejournal.com]

At least I'm not the only teenager afraid of spiders, then :)... V. good to know.
*giggles*

[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

I am also terrified of spiders... And I think those little yellow ones are esp disgusting and gross. As for size, remember, its what you do with it! Remember who tiny Black Widows are! The second spider sounds horrifying! I've never heard of a spider attacking another spider! I wish I could visualize how big a centimetre was...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

LOL there are two and about a half centimetres to the inch so you can see that we both over reacted!! On the other hand seen from the corner of the eye at close range the little so and so looked about the size of a soup plate.
I've had to get brave about spiders with 2 kids in the house and various gibbering females at work. My finest hour was when I was reading a bedtime story to Mike from a very heavy book and a huge spider marched across the floor. I dropped the book on it and continued reading from memory and he didn't even notice!

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[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

Like I said, even those tiny little yellow spiders gross me out!

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

*choke*

Yep, the flatmate and the other half once heard a bloodcurdling scream come from the downstairs look, stuck their heads out of respective bedroom doors and said: "Spider?" "Spider!" before ignoring my trauma and distress.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

People who aren't scared of spiders are so bloody insufferable when called upon to rescue one! They forget that they have phobias of their own. My other half, bless him, is a steely-eyed warrior when faced by anything with eight legs but a quivering windmilling wimp when buzzed by a wasp - but I don't laugh, not me! That would be unkind.

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have to rescue Daddy LongLegses from flatmate's room. It's quite odd, since I *love* them and just gently catch them in my hand and release them.

BTW, remember the issue that wound up putting us on each others' friends' list? She's done it again, but now it's beginning to look like stalking and things are Being Done, so I await nemesis.

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Well, I will await developments.