My Dull Life: Lazarus Arachnids
October 22, 2010 in My Dull Life
So last night I was about to go to bed and I glanced in the dishwasher. There was a black spot of something the size of a nickel inside of it that didn’t belong there. Nope: there was a spider the size of a nickel in the dishwasher. I am not afraid of bugs and other little critters, mostly. (In college–the very first time I went to college–I was the hall Bug Wrangler. Everyone called me to take care of their bee, yellow jacket, and spider problems.) But if you kill a spider, it will rain, plus it’s not cool for the spider. It looked like it would be a lot of effort to wrangle this particular spider, and I was tired, so I left him be. I figured he could handle himself.
This is a bit dark, but it’s making me laugh because I have a dark sense of humor at the best of times, and it’s Friday, so what the hell. My mother got some sad news from some neighbors at the beginning of the week – one of her childhood friends, who just stays up the road from her, had died after a ridiculously short battle with cancer. It was a shock to everyone. So, my mother buys a couple of “In Sympathy” cards for his wife and daughter, fills them out with the appropriate words, and posts them through their door on Wednesday. Trouble is – he’s not dead.
