Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Live Spider


I received a visit from an unexpected visitor yesterday.  I was in my bathroom, clad in my birthday suit - when out of nowhere it appears.  Dangling.  Taunting me with its eight legs, knowing full well I wasn't going to kill it in the buff.  Such a clever creature.  Instead I ran to the kitchen, grabbed a giant yellow cup, swooped my unwanted guest into said cup, and covered it with the heaviest book I could find under urgent circumstances - Jane Austen, The Complete Novels.  I then left the following note for my roommate: "Live spider - do not let loose."  And off to work I went...

When I got home from work I found an empty yellow cup with the following note:

Wyatt admitted later that he released the spider into the wild.  I'm glad he did.  Honestly, I was starting to feel pretty guilty that I trapped him in the first place.  I couldn't imagine leaving him captive all day, only to kill him.  Run free little friend!

2 comments:

Josette said...

first of all...that picture is disgusting. second of all, do you really want the world to be overrun by spiders? thirdly, i am VERY disappointed that that spider is not DEAD!!! KILL THE SPIDERS!!!

Josette said...

i did enjoy when you said you left it for your "roommate". i was wondering who the hay your roommate is...and then i was like, oooohhhhhh. gotcha. but really, you should have killed it.