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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

7 comments:

VV said...

This would freak out M. She's horribly afraid of spiders. I grossed her out the first time she asked me to kill a spider on the wall for her. I reached up and smashed it with my bare fist and replied, "dead." Spiders don't faze me, now mice, I am up off the floor and onto counter tops, tables, etc. the minute I see one. In my defense I have a history with mice. As a small child we had mice in our rental apartment. They would run around at night. Out of fear I would cocoon myself in my bedding. One night I awoke to mice walking on the blanket covering my face. Years later, in another house, we had a mouse, set out traps and then it just disappeared, until one day when I went to put on a pair of jeans that had been folded and put on a shelf. I stuck my leg in the the pant leg and at the same time I began screaming, the mouse in the pant leg began screaming and neither one of us could get out of that pair of jeans fast enough. So I consider my fear of mice perfectly rational.

CyberKitten said...

v v said: This would freak out M.

It's probably only millimeters across [grin]

v v said: I grossed her out the first time she asked me to kill a spider on the wall for her. I reached up and smashed it with my bare fist and replied, "dead."

Well, that *is* gross! [rotflmao]

v v said: In my defense I have a history with mice. As a small child we had mice in our rental apartment.

We had mice and cockroaches in the house I grew up in and I still, almost 50 years later, shakes my shoes upside down before I put them on. Mice, or rats, don't bother me at all - actually I think mice are cute and rats are livable with. Little spiders don't bother me at all. The bigger ones creep me out a bit but I still evict them from my house rather than kill them. That was my cats job when she was alive - big hunter that one!

VV said...

Our cat just likes to watch, the lazy bastard. The neighbor cat will kill voles and lay them on our back steps if I leave something tasty out there in our cat's dish. She must think I do it for her. Maybe I should invite her inside the next time I see a mouse.

Hannah said...

Having grown up working on a farm and considering how much time I spent playing in the dirt as a kid it takes quite a bit to freak me out when it comes to those 'creepy-crawly' animals. However, one of my good friends used to be terrified of spiders and begged me to come over to get rid of this 'HUGE' spider for her. Pierogies and other bribes were offered because she couldn't leave her room since the spider was over the door. I get there... the spider could've fit on my pinky nail.

Stephen said...

Four legs good, two legs bad, eight legs -- a sign from the universe that Arachnids are meant for conquest?

CyberKitten said...

v v said: Our cat just likes to watch, the lazy bastard.

[snigger]

hannah said: I get there... the spider could've fit on my pinky nail.

The biggest spider I ever saw was in Australia. I'd heard stories about how big their bugs where and thought it was exagerated. Erm, no. It isn't. They're friggin HUGE.

sc said: Four legs good, two legs bad, eight legs -- a sign from the universe that Arachnids are meant for conquest?

What does that say about millipeads and centipeads?

Stephen said...

Either they're meant to be the Lords of the Galaxy, or they're the physical forms of deities who have lost favor and followers and who've been reduced to creeping people out.