Shelob Jr.

[ilovemyalibi]

I went to take a shower this morning, and there was this enormous brown recluse in there! Normally spiders don't bother me, especially if they're moderately small, but these things are huge! Coupled with my knowledge of what they can do to a person, and the fact that they're really aggressive when backed into a corner (like most everything else to be honestly), I wasn't going to take any chances trying to uphold the ethics of PETA. This thing had to die. It was either it or my dance career (getting bit by one can result in amputation of whatever limb was bitten). The only problem is that they're incredibly strong spiders. I turned on my shower head, made sure the water was as hot as it possibly could be, and started spraying it, hoping to weaken it and get it down the drain. It kept getting away from the water, though! I'd spray it and it kind of sat there all protecting like, and then it would decide that it needed to hide and so it would run for some crevice. My shower has some low-hanging shelves, prefect place for spiders to hide. That's where the thing was hiding when I almost walked into the shower. Luckily I managed to see a couple of legs before I stepped in. Anyway, for the better part of five minutes I fought with this thing, spraying it, getting it closer and closer to the drain only to have it go scurrying away. Finally it got tired enough that it went down the drain. It's probably dead now. I feel sad about it, but honestly I didn't see any other safe way to get rid of it. It was in a very cramped space, and it could have seriously hurt me.

Bah, now I feel bad. I need to go kill some samurai.