There’s this habit in our family to put off pressing responsibilities or work by filling our time with cleaning or organizing. We comvince ourselves that the messy house or the filled e-mail inbox is due for a cleaning and that is a justified priority. So I was not surprised when I came home the other night to my sister’s apartment and the place smelled of amonia and reeked of procrastination.
Lo and behold, not only was the kitchen floor spotless, but the infamous trapped spider was gone. Apparently, it had built itself a web and made itself at home inside the glass so when my sister finally had the guts to pick up the glass, the spider wouldn’t leave. She place the glass right side up outside and we kept checking on him. We couldn’t decide if he were starving or trapped or just plain resting.
Later that night, something hit my ankle as I was washing dishes and I looked down only to find that, no not another spider, but a bee was crawling around by my foot. Now I am slightly less scared of bees so I calmly put a glass over it. The only difference here is that I was calm.
Never fear. After all the guilt I felt over the spider, it only took about five minutes for me to find a piece of card stock to slip under the glass and carry the bee outside. After releasing it I had an afterthought that maybe I should have thrown it into the glass with the spider. I’m pretty sure the spider needs food and water (he’s pretty dry, but not dead) so what do you think? Would the bee have won or would the spider have devoured her?
I think you are a very, very deranged individual.
Katie I’m so proud of you!! Well, or your sister. All the same, I don’t think you owe it to the spider to feed it now. He’s free to go find sustenance on his own.
My money would have gone on the bee…….
How come the bee got special attention and the spider didn’t ? Sounds like arachno – discrimination to me…..
I can’t explain my irrational fear of spiders. More than any other insect, I instantly feel it crawling all over me just by looking at a picture. But the other thing the bee had going for it was my guilt over the spider.
Given the choice between a bee and a spider, I would much rather take my chances with the spider. Stinging insects make me much more nervous. Especially wasps.
Are you running an insect zoo there or what? I totally understand your fear of spiders. My theory is, if the spider comes in uninvited, it is breaking and entering and could cause harm to the family so it would be considered self defense if you killed it. I am glad that you freed the bee but only because I like honey. Oh, I found something the other day that made me think of you…a wine called Vampire that is imported from Transylvania….no joke! My dad and I found it at AAFES.
KT I wanna be interviewed!!!!!!!!!!! Golly Gee!
Just for you Katie I am posting my black widow story on my blog. You are such a wuss when it come to spiders that this story will give you nightmares for months.
Insect zoo is now under control…under the control of Tasha the killer cat! I haven’t seen a bug since I started taking care of her. Unfortunately I haven’t had a quiet night’s sleep since she’s been here either!
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