Spider
It’s Spider Friday. Toby Schreier sends in this picture and story, which is officially the new best spider story of 2008.
I have discovered that I am not an arachnophobe.
After staying up way to late drinking wine and chatting online, it was time for a shower. Now at 3:00am and with a bit of wine in my system i was enjoying the sensation of how the hot water felt running over me. After standing there for a minute or two I was thinking to myself, “Wow, it’s really cool how the water trickling down in patterns almost feels like it’s trickling upwards.”
After another long moment something clicked. I opened my eyes and looked at my leg. there was a rather large spider frantically crawling up my left leg. I can only guess it was trying to find refuge from the sudden onslaught of water, and it found my leg to be better footing than the plastic of the walls.
Toby earned the right to claim he isn’t an arachnophobe. His reaction was to open the curtain and shake the spider off his leg onto the floor. After he got out, he went and got a camera and a lamp and this picture is the result.
Look at the hair along the spider’s leg. It’s still wet!
Awesome, Toby. Thanks!
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
tceisele said,
June 6, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Boy. I can never get them to face me like that! I like how you can clearly see all eight eyes. Unfortunately, I can’t really see a good match with any of the ones on the Bug Guide Spider Eye Arrangements page.
JFargo said,
June 10, 2008 @ 10:33 am
Definitely a cool story. You’ve got me beat; there’s no way I’d be so calm. I saw a spider in the shower with me the other day and made it a very quick shower. The water might have touched me.