Tuesday, September 30, 2008

eensy weensy fruit fly

This morning I found a six legged spider in my bathroom. That's probably what made it easier for me to squash it with a fistful of wadded toilet paper.

For this reason, I can never become a Buddhist.

But, on the upside, I can at least do my own spider killings. This is progress.

I once was ready to abandon my car in the parking lot at work and take the streetcar home because there was a HUMONGOUS spider making a web inside my steering wheel. A co-worker, who wanted a ride to the subway, SWISHED the web then sat down in the passenger seat.

She actually expected me to get in that car with a HUMONGOUS spider now on the loose, god-knows-where, but certainly within seriously, frighteningly, close proximity to my own bodily self. She was not happy while I made her search the car and provide squashed evidence of this interloper's remains.

I still shudder when I think of this.

Then again, perhaps I shouldn't have killed that spider. Afterall, they are the 'good' insects. They prove themselves useful by eating flies and other annoying dastardly flying bugs*. For the past week, I have been wanting to sit out on my balcony with a glass of something and a good book... but that has been darn near impossible what with the hundred thousand gazillion fruit fly like things swarming about. It is a plague, I tell you.
You think I am exaggerating?

Yes, just for you I photographed these deceased creatures from inside my lobby. The others had been swept up already and these guys came to replace them.



*and just where is the spider who spun for this web feast?

16 comments:

  1. That's too many. Your spiders are very lazy. Or very fat.

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  2. Hello Violetsky. Thank you for stopping by my blog. I was just playing with the blackbox widget and it guided me here.
    I don't mind spiders. Looking at your photos i agree with you, i think that is just too many flies for any spider to handle!

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  3. Hello Violetsky. Thank you for stopping by my blog. I was just playing with the blackbox widget and it guided me here.
    I don't mind spiders. Looking at your photos i agree with you, i think that is just too many flies for any spider to handle!

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  5. Me again. Sorry the same comment is in here twice. It wouldn't let me comment for a minute then went a bit crazy and commented three times, although as you can see i managed to delete one of them. Sorry about that.
    BM :-)

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  6. OMG! That's terrible. Hate bugs, hate spiders and hate anything that crawls like that. YUK!

    CJ xx

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  7. Crikey! Y'see this is why I have never been much good at camping. Creepy crawlies and me don't mix. I visit my in-laws in Australia and the whole time I double shake out everything off the line as I am paranoid there will be a red-backed spider in the washing, and I keep to pathways to avoid the HINT of a snake....I had a yukky dream about a tarantula last night and made The Stud check the room this morning to make sure there wasn't one! (Which there wouldn't be cos like we don't actually have them here apart from the museum...)

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  8. Why does everyone hate spiders? they're lovely and useful and quiet. Don't kill them. The fruit flies on the other hand... wow, you have a real problem. I grew up on a fruit farm and I've never seen so many fruit flies.

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  9. That was impressive! Where are spiders when you need them indeed?

    I wanted to wave hello (got here via black box magic).
    Greetings from Italy.

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  10. I used to scream murder every time I saw a spider. Now I let my cat play with them :) not that I get many though, just a few. Fruit flies on the other hand, yep, got TONS of them this year.

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  11. A six-legged spider? Was he missing two, or not really a spider (like maybe a Daddy Long Legs instead?). My older son shares your spider phobia, but they don't bother me much.

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  12. Holy grasshopper, batman!! You must be the absolute sweetest morsel around.. where did they all come from..
    They must be looking for a nice warm cozy place to spend the winter.. maybe if you knit them each a little hat and mitts they would fly off and enjoy the weather..

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  13. You killed a handicapped spider?!?!

    Shame on you!

    Wait, we're not allowed to say handicapped anymore are we?

    Me, I love spiders. They keep all the nasties under control.

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  14. Same question as Robin... is all okay with you?

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