I have what some would call Arachnophobia, meaning that I fear spiders. And this is true, I guess. I don't like them. I don't trust them. I definitely don't want them touching me or sneaking up on me. And I fear finding them. Especially in surprise situations.
Growing up, my family used to say that I had spidie senses. Not the good, Marvel kind that would help keep me out of danger, but the annoying to your parents kind, where I can find the spider in any situation. If there was one in the room, I found it. Walking through the neighborhood, spider on fence beside the sidewalk, found it. Because I knew it was there and I wouldn't stop looking until it was located. That way they can't sneak up on you! Camping was a special kind of torture, for my parents as well, I'm sure. You might be thinking to yourself right now, "Self, there are 25 million tons of spiders (That's right. I used tons as the quantifier. It should worry you that most of the articles that I have found online will only give the estimated tonnage of spiders on this planet. Not a number of suspected individual live spiders!) in this world, 45,700 spider species, and they can be found everywhere on Earth except Antarctica, they are literally EVERYWHERE! Of course she can find spiders everywhere she goes." You are correct. Good on you for thinking that of me. But know this, if I am in a room. and a spider starts heading in my direction, I know it. I sense it. I feel the need to find it so that it can't sneak up on me! This page is my therapy of sorts. Here you will find all the places that I fear finding spiders. I hope that it will be somewhat cathartic to draw out my thoughts on the subject (especially now that stick figure drawings are acceptable from adults, an artist I am not). In my research for this page, I found a very terrifying article from the Washington Post titled: Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year. But there is hope! Because there is a list of endangered spiders. It's short, but I have faith that we can do better in irradiating this plague in coming years. Again, you may be saying to yourself, "Self, we need spiders to control the insect population!" I say to you, lets boost the bat, blue bird populations! They are the true, unsung and cute heroes! They eat the insects in your yards, but don't come into your house. They are dwindling and they need our help!! Plus, they never sneak up on you! I want to hear from you!! Where are you afraid of finding a spider? Where is the worst place that you have found a spider? Let's band together in our hatred of the most loathsome creature to ever populate this or any planet!!!!! ![]() The world's most adorable spider! Yes. I am capable of finding the drawing of a spider cute. A real one? Not on your life! No! Not even that one on the internet that dances and everyone keeps telling me is cute! None! Zip! Zero! Zilch! Nada! I think you get my point. Piffy is the mascot of this page. He will be helping me to show the places where I fear finding spiders, like inside the toilet paper roll, when you're changing to a new roll. This is one of those quick actions that you perform without even thinking about it. And I just know that one day, I will end up wearing spider. There are so gosh darn many of them, it's bound to happen. |
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December 2019
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