Arachnophobia

Why do I have to be afraid of spiders? Why can't I be afraid of something silly like being afraid of long words?

When I got home from work this afternoon, I decided to walk the dogs around our little driveway circle and get some cardio in. I kept saying 1 more time and ended up walking 10 minutes. When I was done, I made the dogs sit and praised them for keeping up with me. I noticed what looked like a Sweet Gum Ball moving across the driveway. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it was infact a spider with a very large body.

ICK!

Now, teensy spiders with teensy legs and teensy bodies, I can deal with. Spiders with big fat bodies scare the bejeezus out of me.

Since my heroic bug killer wasn't around, I ran to my car to find something to smash it with. My shoe's pretty thin - and I didn't want to chance it biting through. No way I was going to smash it with my autographed copy of House of Leaves! I checked my trunk and found my old Weight Watchers folder. Good enough!

I tossed it on top of the spider and stomped on it. I was brave enough to peek underneath to make sure I killed it and was absolutely horrified to see hordes of tiny spiders scurrying around!!! *faint*

I HATE spiders.

Great, now I'm all "buggy". I keep feeling like things are crawling on me.