TheBanyanTree: Yikes! to Mike's spider tale!!!

[Maria Gibson]

Oh, I've been unnerved by a spider in the car before, Mike, and it's no picnic.
Especially since I'm one of them thar card-carrying spider phobe, arachno-types.
We had a spider or two at the hoedown.  The spidertarian-types even rescued one
from the outhouse after capturing it and gawking at it for ahwile.  I
gawked...from afar.  From afar of the picture, of course, because I never did get
near enough to the real thing for the ensuing gawkfest.  Stuff best left to those
with steel...parts.

For those of you who can't stomach Mike's method of actually looking for the eight
legged ones as they roam your vehicle, you are welcome to plagerize mine.  Stand
somewhat near your car (you have made a hilarious, albiet dangerous, exit from the
car already) and wring your hands as you pretend to peer inside.  Try not to look
very convincing.  Chew your lip and dance a little but not feverishly because you
*do* want someone to stop.  When the man stops and gets out of his car....yes,
it's going to be a man, I can say this with some authority...attempt to look
charming as you politely ask him to remove the offending and ghastly beast from
your vehicular space.  I have yet to be turned down.

I have gotten a disgusted grunt but I drove away sans spider and that's all I
really cared about.

Maria

Mike Pingleton wrote:

> This is a tale best told around the campfire; not for the squeamish, not for
> the arachnophobe.
>