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When I was a teen my Mom asked me to go out pick up my older brother who had spent the weekend at a friends house who lived way out in the country. It was soo far that some of the roads didn't have street names. So my brother had to walk about a mile down a dirt road in order to be a location that I could find him.
Well, while my brother was walking down this dirt road to meet me, he had come across a tarantula that looked something like this. (click before continuing to get full effect of story)
So he scooped it into his empty cooler and brought it with him. At first I didn't have a problem with it until he decided to open the cooler with me driving 60 MPH down the freeway. I explained to him that tarantula's can jump, but he didn't seem to care.
By the time we got home I was so mad I couldn't even think straight so I left.
My brother had put the cooler (with the top off) on the kitchen table and had gone into the back of the house and fell asleep.
Now this tarantula decided that this tiny white box was a boring place to be and decided to leave it's captivity.
Spidey crawled out of the cooler, jumped off the table, walked across the living room and proceed up the back of the couch where my Mom was quietly watching TV with her back turned to the impending danger and chaos about to breakout.
Spidey gets all the way up the couch and is sitting 5 inches from my Moms shoulder when she notices our cat acting up. She says to the cat:"whats wrong with you, you who crazy nutty cat"?
Suddenly my Mom realizes that the cats attention is focused on the near proximity of her shoulder, she turns her head and all hell breaks loose.
The following dialog that took place between my brother and Mother is not something that I can post here in a public forum, but suffice to say it wasn't a pretty scene.
In the end, the tarantula was recaptured and released into the neighborhood.
To this day I still wonder what sad soul had to have the next encounter with that monster spider.
Well, while my brother was walking down this dirt road to meet me, he had come across a tarantula that looked something like this. (click before continuing to get full effect of story)
So he scooped it into his empty cooler and brought it with him. At first I didn't have a problem with it until he decided to open the cooler with me driving 60 MPH down the freeway. I explained to him that tarantula's can jump, but he didn't seem to care.
By the time we got home I was so mad I couldn't even think straight so I left.
My brother had put the cooler (with the top off) on the kitchen table and had gone into the back of the house and fell asleep.
Now this tarantula decided that this tiny white box was a boring place to be and decided to leave it's captivity.
Spidey crawled out of the cooler, jumped off the table, walked across the living room and proceed up the back of the couch where my Mom was quietly watching TV with her back turned to the impending danger and chaos about to breakout.
Spidey gets all the way up the couch and is sitting 5 inches from my Moms shoulder when she notices our cat acting up. She says to the cat:"whats wrong with you, you who crazy nutty cat"?
Suddenly my Mom realizes that the cats attention is focused on the near proximity of her shoulder, she turns her head and all hell breaks loose.
The following dialog that took place between my brother and Mother is not something that I can post here in a public forum, but suffice to say it wasn't a pretty scene.
In the end, the tarantula was recaptured and released into the neighborhood.
To this day I still wonder what sad soul had to have the next encounter with that monster spider.