| My daughter got a little plastic and screen bug house | | | | squeeze through and run up the entire length of my |
| from her grand parents this summer. She loved to | | | | arm. I was wearing a T-shirt. I don't think I need to tell |
| collect moths and caterpillars. But when heading out | | | | anyone that these animals are super quick movers. |
| fishing, I saw a huge dock spider sunning itself and I | | | | The spider ran up my arm. I was screaming like a 4 |
| thought it would look great in my daughters bug house. | | | | year old girl slapping the crap outta myself. The spider |
| Here's what happened: | | | | made it to the short arm sleeve and now was sharing |
| I was using a styrofoam worm container to try and | | | | my shirt with me. |
| catch the dock spider. I crept up and just placed the | | | | I don't know why but I was trying to run away from |
| worm container over the spider. I had the lid in my | | | | myself.......if you get my meaning. Meanwhile everybody |
| other hand and I thought I could just slide the lid | | | | (15 people) along the shore was watching me. I guess |
| underneath and then the spider would be trapped. | | | | my very feminine screams attracted their attention. |
| The flaw in my plan you ask? The lid is beveled. I did | | | | The spider fell out of my shirt and made it to cover. I |
| not take this into consideration at the time but figured | | | | looked around and noticed all these people staring at |
| out the error in a mighty quick way. | | | | me. I tried to act "manly". I was just about to go up my |
| I lifted the side of the container and started to slide the | | | | stairs but went up my neighbors stairs instead. |
| lid under. That gave the spider enough room to | | | | We look alike from a distance!!!! |