Arachnid visitation
Oct. 12th, 2006 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI was standing, doing dishes, when JJ informed me, quite calmly, that there was a spider on me.
Now I am not especially arachnaphobic. I think spiders are neat, but that's when they're crawling down the wall, or out in the yard, or on the pages of a book. Not when they are on my person. Still, I was picturing the little half inch garden spiders we get in abundance here, or maybe a shaggy wolf spider. So I turned my head to look, and I saw a MASSIVE spider sitting on my shoulder, mere inches from my face, and it was black, with a fat abdomen. And although already a little, observant voice was noting calmly that the legs were hairy and it just didn't look quite right, the insticts had already shrieked "Black Widow!" and had taken over. I jumped, screamed, flailed, got water all over, and flung the spider heaven knows where.
So now I'm all wound up, and am twitching and jumping every time my own hair brushes my arm or something.
*shudders*
Now I am not especially arachnaphobic. I think spiders are neat, but that's when they're crawling down the wall, or out in the yard, or on the pages of a book. Not when they are on my person. Still, I was picturing the little half inch garden spiders we get in abundance here, or maybe a shaggy wolf spider. So I turned my head to look, and I saw a MASSIVE spider sitting on my shoulder, mere inches from my face, and it was black, with a fat abdomen. And although already a little, observant voice was noting calmly that the legs were hairy and it just didn't look quite right, the insticts had already shrieked "Black Widow!" and had taken over. I jumped, screamed, flailed, got water all over, and flung the spider heaven knows where.
So now I'm all wound up, and am twitching and jumping every time my own hair brushes my arm or something.
*shudders*
