It is evening and Kaisha is finishing up her laundry. She heads for her bedroom, rounds the corner in the hallway, and then begins screaming hysterically! She screams that there is a spider, and I brush her off (uh, I hate spiders). She continues to scream, so I decide to go and assess the situation (by her ear-piercing scream you would have thought the intruder was the size of a basketball!). I grab the fly swatter, head down the hallway and as I round the corner, make eye-contact with this monster and begin screaming like a little girl! I kid you not, it was the size of a golf ball. Then I hit panic mode and realize that the little fly swatter was not the best idea since this thing was huge and could run like a flash of lightning. By now the poor spider is freaked out by all the screaming (Kerianne joined in) and trying to find somewhere to hide. It makes its way into the bathroom where it hides in the corner (1st picture). I am now freaked out myself and call John to find out where he is (thank heavens he was in AZ that day or we would have been in some real trouble!). He hears the screams and I tell him the situation, and he laughs when he says that he is about an hour away. An hour? I thought I was going to die! I am now crying and laughing at the same time. Right then Lexi comes down the hallway, spots the intruder, and charges for it! The spider jumps back at her and all heck breaks loose!!!! We are all screaming hysterically, some of us are crying even harder, I rush to grab Lexi and doing so created a bubble in the rug that gives the intruder a great hiding spot (I think I dropped the phone and hung up on John during the commotion). We all stood there watching the rug, knowing that someone had to be there to keep an eye on this thing at all times. It finally emerges (2nd picture) and then decides to go on a fieldtrip throughout the bathroom (3rd picture). So that is where I stood for the next hour until our hero arrived to save the day (which actually took less than 10 seconds and a small shovel!). Needless to say, I was planning to call the exterminator the following week to start up service, and that call was made sooner than later!
If you look close at the 1st picture you can actually see the camera flash in the intruders eyes! No joke...
5 comments:
Holy Cow!! I also am a spider hater!! I think you handled it with dignity and pride. Haha. Try hairspray next time. Kills anything and it smells nice. :)
As I told you- I would have run out of the house and left the kids to fend for themselves!
Actually, I almost did! Kam held me back and forced me to stay. Then I thought: I don't want to leave and come back to a fat-and-happy spider (after it ate the kids!). I think it could have :o)
That's hilarious! Okay, I may be laughing, but I would of probably done the exact same thing! With my luck Olivia would of wanted to play with it...
Margaret would have reacted the same way... grabbing the boy and heading for the nearest red cross shelter. I would have been like John... laughing and playing with the spider! Aimee, do you realize how many other intruders that spider was eating on a daily basis to get that big?
Love, Bear, Margs & CJ
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