The Thing in my Shower (contains descriptions of spiders!)

Oct 22, 2012 17:05

One of the drawbacks to wearing corrective lenses to improve your eyesight is that you can't always have those lenses on. I wear mine quite often, but if I don't have them on or in, I'm most likely doing one of two things: sleeping or showering ( Read more... )

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Spiders and showers moonwolf1999 October 22 2012, 21:42:27 UTC
As you know I also wear contact. I am actually legally blind without them. I don't really have a fear of spiders... but.....When we moved to Ohio from PA we were told about the spiders in Ohio that can bite and possibly kill you.. Well when we got our first place on our own in Ohio I took my glasses off.. got in the shower turned on the water and saw this big black thing run towards me. With my eyesight just that it was big enough for me to see it meant it was pretty big. Well after I let out this unmanly shriek and jumped out of the shower... put my glasses on and took a look... I saw a bunch of hair that was at the drain and the water in the tub made it "run" towards me...
Luckily there was no one else home to hear my girly shriek or to torment me in my time of distress

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chronarchy October 23 2012, 03:17:29 UTC
All the best stories involve girly shrieks, don't they?

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rfunk October 22 2012, 22:38:10 UTC
You know, for someone who claims no arachnophobia, you sure seem to have an aversion to spiders jumping into your hair.....

(This from someone who would've jumped out, found my glasses, then smashed the thing. In order to avoid any surprises, of course.)

At our place, the dark thing in the shower could be hair, a spider, or a bat. No wonder I often forget my glasses in the bathroom in the morning.

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chronarchy October 23 2012, 03:16:25 UTC
I consider it merely "accepting their nature as leapers and small-brained creatures." clearly, becoming tangled in hair is simply one of their many skills, no?

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romandruid October 23 2012, 00:55:05 UTC
I wish I hadn't read this now; it had never occurred to me that a spider (and we got 'em a lot bigger than silver-dollar size out here) might decide to leap into my hair.

Seriously. Never. Occurred. To. Me.

*body-wracking shudder*

Thanks a lot, bro. As if a room full of 9th graders isn't scary enough. Thanks.

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chronarchy October 23 2012, 03:14:02 UTC
I tried to warn folks that "Thar be spiders," but perhaps I did not provide enough warning :)

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suicidekttn October 23 2012, 02:11:05 UTC
In an effort to be less terrified of spiders, since they seem to be an inherited totem animal of mine, I've started to capture them. Especially at work, where there are lots in the local produce. Then I give them to my Buddhist friend and he lets them go. I haven't gotten to the letting go stage, but I can catch them.

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chronarchy October 23 2012, 03:19:30 UTC
Oh, yeah: they travel from far afield! I had forgotten that!

They are pretty awesome critters, really. I tend to think of them mostly as very considerate toward us, what with eatin' the things we don't like, and all that.

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just_lisbet October 23 2012, 02:54:43 UTC
Awwww.... that was so nice of you to catch it and let it go! (and also to warn your wife!). I am pretty much an arachnophobe, myself. And yeah, I know about the legend of the 7 others. I always thought too that if you killed a spider, it would send out death emissions to other spiders, telling them to come and get you (in vengeance, I guess?).

Oh and those plug-in devices that emit high frequency sounds or vibrations, that are supposed to keep the bugs (and presumably spiders) away? We had one in our basement when I was growing up. They don't work. I think they just drive the bugs and spiders insane, and so then you have crazed spiders running around, doing goodness knows what. Plotting to kill us, no doubt.

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chronarchy October 23 2012, 03:23:05 UTC
Ooh, death emissions! What a nifty thing to worry about (I mean that sympathetically, seriously).

I tend to think that one should move them outside whenever possible, rather than squishing, though I have my limits: spiders in my bed are likely to be crushed with little remorse. The same with spiders that I cannot manage to brush off after repeated attempts.

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