The Itsy Bitsy Spider

5.Nov.2005

I’m not one that tends to freak over spiders. In fact, the more wicked they look, the cooler. So when someone of the female species cries in terror for the death of a poor eight legged arthropod that happened to get stuck in the tub, I tend to feel bad.

“What’d it ever do to you?”

“It’s creepy, just kill it!”

“Ah come on, it helps eat the other bugs in the house.”

“OTHER BUGS?!”

“Never mind.”

So when I’m cleaning the house and find a spider all balled up and dead, I find myself wondering how it died? Was it old age, starvation, boredom, just couldn’t go on the arthropodal way? You never actually see one go through it’s death throes, at least I hadn’t until this morning.

Visiting the bathroom for the morning ritual, I noticed a little guy scurrying across the floor. I didn’t think much of it other than where he was off to in such a hurry. About a half hour later, I revisited the bathroom to brush my teeth and noticed the little guy back in the middle of the floor. I kneeled to take a closer look and noticed he was slowly balling up. At first glance, I thought this may be an opossum defense. Funny, I didn’t think spiders did that. Then he kind of “un-balled” himself and took five steps, which isn’t much for a spider if you think about it, where he balled up again. Only this time he never moved again, except when I laid him to rest in the trash can.

This incident leaves me with several questions. What in the world is on my bathroom floor that can kill a spider, full of vim and vigor, less than twenty minutes later? Which then begs the question, should I be walking barefoot in said bathroom?!

Or my favorite question: What “other bug” is lurking in the bathroom that could kill a spider that fast?

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  1. Well the fact that you’re still living and breathing fine after living there for as long as you have and nothing has made you curl up into a ball; your last breath creeping across your lips……..I think you have nothing to worry about!
    But as for the ‘other bug’……well I’d be worried! But then again I am the one who growing up always screamed like a chearleader being raped everytime I saw a spider; ginormous or miniscual! (sp?)

    I leave you with this….”be afraid…be very afraid!” BUAHAHAHAHAHA

    Blurted out by runtrent – 7.Nov.2005

  2. Oh Yeah, by the way….it’s your one and only Loda who left the last msg! Which leaves me to ponder this…..why the hell does it say “rentrent says:”!?

    Blurted out by runtrent – 7.Nov.2005

  3. Yes it is I…..the one and only masterful Loda! Bow down to me bitches! hahaha yeah I too am a fast learner! Mom also explained the previous name ‘runtrent’ very suiting I must give props where props are deserved!

    *snaps, snaps, snaps*

    Blurted out by Loda – 7.Nov.2005

  4. had you brushed your teeth yet? maybe when you kneeled down to take a closer look at him you breathed on him and that is why he died.

    poor guy. what an awful way to go.

    Blurted out by miteylil – 8.Nov.2005

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