An Arachnid Adventure ....

A few months ago I had an interesting experience (if you can call it that !!).

I had been taking some shopping out of the boot of my car, when I noticed a huge (saucer-sized) big, black hairy spider sitting in the gutter-thingy on the edge of the boot opening. Oh My God, it was huge. I panicked … how do I get rid of it. Found something to flick it off with … too slow. It crawled into the boot, never to be seen again. Believe me, I searched, and searched – to no avail. Damn.

From that day on, every time I set foot into my car, I was paranoid. Hope that spider can’t get in, hope it’s gone, hope it doesn’t pay me a visit. It was really not nice being in that car.

Anyway, a week or so later, I guess I was getting a bit blasé … that spider had gone (or so I thought !!). I was driving to the local shopping centre, in a heap of traffic, when what should crawl across my dash, right in front of me !!! I nearly died on the spot. (I know in an earlier post I said I had a fascination with spiders, but not when they are a few inches from my face, ready to crawl on me …. Eeeeewwwww !!). I was shaking, couldn’t breathe properly, ready to hyperventilate !! What do I do ?? There are cars everywhere. Hang on, there’s a break in the traffic … quick, over into that car-park. All the while watching that damn spider !! In the meantime, it had crawled into a vent along the inside of the windscreen. After I had stopped the car, do you think I could find it ?? What to do ?? I got back behind the wheel and went grocery shopping !!!! The paranoia was back, though, I was nervous as hell !!!

On returning to my car, after shopping, I searched again … to no avail. I drove home, cautiously, in the left hand lane in case I had to stop in a hurry ! Got home safely, unloaded my shopping, and returned to my car with the biggest can of insect spray !! I had a weapon !!!

I sprayed into all the vents, where I knew the nasty critter had gone … just my luck it wouldn’t be there anymore. Hang on, what luck … there it is, crawling out, quite groggy !! It still had some spunk, though, as when I approached it with a stick to flick it out, it tried to crawl up the stick. OMG !!! Anyway, I eventually flicked it out of the car. Thank goodness. I could now relax again. Although, every-time I got in that car for the next few days I nearly asphyxiated from the smell of the bug spray !!

Now we get to yesterday …. I was just arriving into that same shopping centre car-park, when what goes crawling along the outside of the drive-side window … not quite as big, but pretty substantial in size, anyway. OMG, not again. At least it was on the outside. When I parked my car, I literally jumped out of the door, in case the nasty thing was sitting there waiting to ambush me. Luckily it was over the other side of the car. I went over, tried swatting at it with some paper, but it ran back to the other side (luckily the door was closed !!). We played chase back and forward for a few times, until it decided to park on my wipers. Please, don’t crawl into the vent !! I got to it, flicked it off the car and chased it away. I was free of spiders. Hope it didn’t come back to visit once I had gone into the shops.

Hopefully, we are now spider free. I do have a cautious look around every time I get into the car, however.

Hope your life is spider free.

MEOW