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Complete, unadulterated Terror.
16 years ago
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Okay so I got home on Thursday afternoon and decided to check my email and see if I go the shipping confirmation for an order my dad had made. I had and it also said delivered but it obviously wasn't at the house, and it said OFFICE on the shipping tracking page. So I went back out after changing my work clothes and informed Dad. He got excited and giddy so we jumped in the truck and zoomed into town. WE had the dogs in the back and while it wasn't hot out, was warm enough to warrant Dad putting his window down.
Our post office has a little alley next to it with 10 minute parking next to the guard rail. Dad parked there with my passenger door a mere inch or two from the guard rail. That's okay I wasn't getting out and he skipped off into the post office. I boredly fiddled with his door locks and turned on the windshield wipers. His window was still down so I didn't think two things about it.
Till I spotted the spider.
He was a HUGE little black wolf spider with the white dots on his back. He was chubby and fuzzy and could cover up a penny barely. Had I not been terrified I would've thought him kind of cute. Well he was on Dad's door of the truck. And I calmly told myself that when he crawled around the lip of the window I'd roll up dad's window.
But the truck has power windows.
And Dad took the key.
Fuck.
That also means, in the event of an emergency....I can't roll down my own. And there's no way to open my door.
Full on panic sets in until he crawls out the window. I'm okay with him on the outside of the truck. I'm fine with that. Till a car drives by and scares it and it crawls back in and faces toward me. Lots of scrabbling at my door and things was had. Then dad comes back. HALLELUJAH I'm saved.
Except I've locked his door, and to unlock it he's gotta reach in the truck which further scares the spider which now looks poised to jump in my direction. So after about a minute of incoherent jabbering I powerunlock his door and he rids the truck of the spider.
The dogs and the lady taking her mail into the post office think I'm nuckin' futs.
Our post office has a little alley next to it with 10 minute parking next to the guard rail. Dad parked there with my passenger door a mere inch or two from the guard rail. That's okay I wasn't getting out and he skipped off into the post office. I boredly fiddled with his door locks and turned on the windshield wipers. His window was still down so I didn't think two things about it.
Till I spotted the spider.
He was a HUGE little black wolf spider with the white dots on his back. He was chubby and fuzzy and could cover up a penny barely. Had I not been terrified I would've thought him kind of cute. Well he was on Dad's door of the truck. And I calmly told myself that when he crawled around the lip of the window I'd roll up dad's window.
But the truck has power windows.
And Dad took the key.
Fuck.
That also means, in the event of an emergency....I can't roll down my own. And there's no way to open my door.
Full on panic sets in until he crawls out the window. I'm okay with him on the outside of the truck. I'm fine with that. Till a car drives by and scares it and it crawls back in and faces toward me. Lots of scrabbling at my door and things was had. Then dad comes back. HALLELUJAH I'm saved.
Except I've locked his door, and to unlock it he's gotta reach in the truck which further scares the spider which now looks poised to jump in my direction. So after about a minute of incoherent jabbering I powerunlock his door and he rids the truck of the spider.
The dogs and the lady taking her mail into the post office think I'm nuckin' futs.
the behavior doesn't sound like a wolf spider. They can't climb smooth surfaces. Sounds more like a jumper of some sort.
my daughter calls them spouders and hates the biting little bastards but plays happily with preying mantis and other bugs
yeah she dont like the hobo spiders we have here nasty mean things
I leapt -OVER- her to get out of the car so I could breathe.
Having a spider pop out of your foot will do that to you.
Yeah, spiders kinda creep me out too. not that that extent though