I have had a frightening and traumatizing experience tonight. I was pulling the covers and sheets off my bed to rotate the mattress, because my mattress is really cheap and worthless and hurts my back! Anyway I noticed a fuzz ball on my bed so I reached down and picked it up and held it between my fingers for a little bit and then I tossed it on the floor to get it out of the way for the time being. As soon as the fuzz ball hit the floor it took off running! It just so happened that I was holding a spider. BLAAAHHhuhhh uhhhh ahhhhhhhhhh bhlllllhhhaaaaa pptttttttt. Moral of the story? Take a close look at your fuzz ball before you go picking it up.
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Look before you pick and check out the places that you play…Kaitlyn had a huge one crawling on her back one day. I tried to brush it off and it moved to her arm…she was unaware because I kept listening intently while trying to get it off of her. Finally, I wrestled it to the floor and sent it to spider heaven. I was as excited with it on her as I would have been if it were on me. I know spiders serve a good purpose, but I would rather them do all their work undercover. 
Posted by: Kim on September 15, 2002 07:25 AM
While we are sharing sage advice on picking things, I too will give a bit of wisdom:
You can pick your friends.
You can pick your nose.
But please do not pick your friend’s nose!
Posted by: Christopher on September 15, 2002 07:52 AM
I need to disagree with Kim on something. There is no spider heaven. There will never be a spider heaven. All spiders go straight to HELL where they came from (well, maybe that’s not exactly where they came from, but i’m pretty sure that’s where they end up). Anything that brings about fear and agony is not worthy of the kingdom of God.
Posted by: Le Renard Subtil on September 15, 2002 12:26 PM
Two summers ago I was working at Lake of the Ozarks State Park and I had just moved into a park-owned cabin. I had thrown a pair of shorts on the floor of my room. Later, as I picked up my shorts, and noticed hundreds of baby spiders crawling all over it, and the huge mama spider. I believe it was a wolf spider of some sort. That spider is now in a small display case in the park office.
Supposedly if spiders did not exist, then the world would dominated by insects.
Posted by: Stuart on September 15, 2002 04:54 PM
