Ah, the simple horrors in life…
Posted on August 5th, 2008 by kimc
Like when you forget to shake out your bath towel, and find daddy longlegs stuck to your damp bare skin. Then you try to peel them off and they leave their still-kicking legs behind.
Coffee is a much easier way to wake up in the morning, but dismembered bugs work faster.
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I’m with you-horrors!
Ahhhh!!! Really- you make me NEVER want to move to Texas!
Ahh… yuck! Today’s horrors happened to my nephew here… he had a spider chase him down the hall, land on his arm, and then not 1/2 an hour later, a cockroach crawled up and into his cup of juice… poor kid!
What is it with spiders and the bathroom?
When I was expecting my third I was bathing my first and second. Back when they enjoyed taking a bath together. Anyways my then younger was about 6 or 7m old. Had taken my 1.5yr old out of the tub, dried her off & diapered her, taken my baby out and laid her on the towel. Turned around to get her diaper and my older shouted “*spider!*”. She was all happy because we’d been learning the itsy bitsy spider song. In about 2 seconds I’d grabbed a magazine and squashed the spider. My older wryly mused ’spider gone gone’…
This was one of those hairy scary looking spiders too. And it had been no more than 6″ from my BABY. Instinct is a powerful thing.
I’m still going to have to try to get over the ’still kicking legs’ remark though.
–Beth
Ok, Kim we just moved to Austin and thus far have not seen any hordes of daddy long legs. Please, please tell me that you just happen to live in the one acre of hill country that is infested…please.
Oh, gross! I’ve had that happen with my bathrobe. =/
Poor daddy longlegs, though. One minute he’s in a fluffy towel and the next he’s smushed against wet skin. He didn’t even see it coming.
Just last night I was moving around all of these duffel bags (clutching them to my chest) and after I dropped them down ( in front of my two girls) a large, very black, very FAST spider crawled out. In my role as Super Mom I calmly got a napkin and squished it. ….Then went to my room and hyperventilated.
Cannot imagine spider on a bathtowel! I would still be stuttering. And here you are blogging about it…..
Ew, ew, ew!
You know what? I’ll take my 30 below winters here in North Dakota any time versus that. We get bugs in the summer but they die off in the winter and nothing like what you have in Texas.
I still get the willies just thinking of your posts from last summer about the hoardes of daddy longlegs. One or two spiders don’t bother me at all, but THAT? Ew, ew, ew.
You have a great sense of humor about it all. I’d still be screaming.
ok,,,,,, not another spider horror story… I can’t even imagine. I am getting over my fear of them. cannot ever do bats though! EVER!
Accccckkkk! I’m shuddering just thinking about it. Bleeeeccchhh!
While Kim takes the cake with the NEVER-ENDING spider life at her home, I’ve got a story for you that will make you clasp your heart and shake with fear. (I’ve always said that drama never hurts a story any!)
Mine is too “revealing” to share completely, but I will tell you that it involved one immediate first-time post-partum mama (Yours Truly), a basement apartment, with said Mama attempting her first shower with cracked and sore you-know-what’s from nursing for the first time. One moment there’s a HUGE spider up on the ceiling (I’m not exaggerating - the span of it’s legs were the size of my palm), the next - whoa, mama - it landed BULLS-EYE where no spider ought to go. Now that’s raw horror.
But Kim, I don’t know how you do it with them on a regular basis! Now that we don’t live in that basement apartment, I don’t ever have to think, “Check the towel…check the shoes…” before I use them. You’re amazing.
This was too funny. I am glad it was you and not me.
Ack! Stop it! You are going to send me into labor with stories like that.
On second thought…………tell another story, I am ready to have this baby! LOL
Oh, yes. Bathrooms and spiders. Earlier this week I had just finished bathing my newborn when I saw a big spider on the bathroom floor. Ever the brave mama, I gave it a good quick stomp only to find that it, too, was a mama as her wee little ones went skittering across the floor. Yech!
Ewwwww! That makes my skin crawl!
Another good way to wake up is to head to the sink to brush your teeth and find a 4″-5″ spider dangling in front of your face between you and the mirror.
Of course, it would have been nicer if I had WANTED to wake up, instead of being on my way to bed.
Kim, I love this post!!! I’m can’t wait to tell my 3 boys this story tomorrow…
My oldest son would say that daddy longlegs are actually quite venomous. HOWEVER, their mouthparts are so small that humans have nothing to fear…
Blessings!!
Thank you for the visual. I will try not to panic the next time I shower. LoL!
I just found your blog and I can’t let this one go by without a comment even though it’s a little old.
I would have crawled out of my own skin! I am deathly afraid of spiders! You wouldn’t even have had a chance to read a post about it until my sweet husband posted about my funeral.
Katie in Dallas