Friday, October 15, 2010

Eeeeek!

I was thirteen years old, and it was just mom and I in the house. My dad, my little sister, and my little brother were out on some errand. My mom was cleaning the living room, and no doubt I was shut inside my room writing in my diary about some boy.

Then I heard my mom scream.

When I ran downstairs to see what was the matter, my mom was pointing at a large and disgusting looking spider that was hanging out on top of our piano. Being the calm, cool, collected women that we are, we totally panicked and got our next door neighbor to come over.

He was a gruff old man, but he wasn't afraid of spiders.

He cautiously and slowly approached the piano, then GRABBED the spider and picked it up. With his bare hands! There may have been some screaming on our part.

He went outside with it, but came back a few minutes later totally perplexed. He showed us the spider's underbelly. It said "Made in China".

I wonder if my brother knew how much havoc his fake toy spider had wreaked when he carelessly left it on the piano?

Below, an ode to spiders (ones you know are fake!):





And here's my cute little spider: Sweet Spider Greetings by Yes Teacher

13 comments:

  1. i like your spider the best!:)

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  2. Funny story! Very cool spider ring...my daughter would love that!!

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  3. Hahahahaha!!!! My daughter is terrified of spiders. She tries not to act scared in front of her 2 year old but without success! The spider decals are creepy cool!!!

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  4. Terrific story :)
    I like your card!

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  5. Ohhh ... the only thing as frightening might be the ones that are made in Japan !
    Your brave neighor is MY hero now ! :)

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  6. Muwahahahaha!!! My kids once hid a fake fur covered rat on my husband ( who screams like a woman) he tried to beat it to death in the furnace room until he noticed it was bouncing! Hahahaha - It was totally awesome !!! Happy Saturday : )

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  7. Ha! This reminds me of the time my dad came back from a trip when I was little and as he was unpacking his luggage out popped this GIANT ugly black spider...and it was also fake but we didn't realize. It had a sort of pipe attached to it that when you squeeze the ball on the end, it made air go through and the spider jump. You can only imagine the yelling that me, my 3 sisters and mom did at the time!

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  8. That's awesome! I would totally have done the same thing!

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  9. What an awesome story! I totally feel you on the spidey fear - I cant stand bugs. My husband always comes to the rescue for those type of bug emergencies!

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  10. haha! i loved this post. hah. what a great story :D

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  11. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh! That is great!

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