So had the worst experience of the whole day early today. Just to double check if you're arachnophobic (ie afraid of spiders) do NOT, under ANY circumstances, read further yhan this intro.
Seriously, don't do it.
You'll regret it.
Especially if this crops up in your feed before bed.
Definitely turn around and walk away.
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Are you sure?
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Okay....
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If you're absolutely sure...
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So going to work this morning (about half hour ago as I write this) I didn't think anything of grabbing my jacket and rushing out the door to the bus stop one block over. Do it every other work day morning just the same. Particularly Tuesday when I've just spent a 3 day weekend relaxing with art and games. Don't work Mondays you see. Avoid mondayitis.
But I get #conspiracyTuesday instead.
Friday I took my beloved AVcon jacket off and left it on the bathroom floor. A mistake I wont be repeating now. Picked it up and threw it before racong to the bus stop.
Get to the stop and as I'm checking I have everything I notice a couple of small spiders on my sleeve. Just harmless baby ones. Brushed them off without a second thought, except to wonder where they came from. I didn't brush against anything as far as I know.
Feel a tickle in my sleeve... on the inside... without thinking I lift my sleeve and peek inside...
Baby... spiders... everywhere.
Dropped my shit; bag, ecig, headphones, phone... threw my jacket off and dropped it too, and stepped back. Took a breath and started removing the atuff from my pockets and turning my jacket inside out to make sure they all fell off.
As I pick up my jacket the 2 other people at the stop notice Mama Spider too. Just a huntsman, they're not dnagerously poisonous to humans. They just sting apparently. But they can be wildly relentless when their eggs/young are threatened. Thankfully she must have been over that phase as she simply ran away when I poked her off my bag.
But holy balls did that wake me up. We've always had Daddy Long Legs spiders in the house. They keep the insect population down, they can have all the babies they want. I don't much care they just get evicted at inspection time.
Redbacks/Poisonous spiders I kill. On sight.
Usually if I see huntsmans I escort them to the tree at the bottom of the backyard. But I did not see her in the bathroom. Or her egg sack. Or the babies at all when I grabbed my jacket. Not a HINT of that.
Or I wouldn't have done it. Obviously.
And despite arachnophobia not being a cripling fear in me (thank fuck) I think I've had quite enough of them for one day.
The rest of the week too.
And maybe the rest of the year.
I wanna go home and have a shower already. ~shudders~ ick. Okay, I'm done.
Later.
