I don’t think so. But I promise this spider had intelligence.

So, I was watching a movie in my bedroom one night, years ago. It was getting late. My darlin was working graveyard. Most of the time my darlin working graveyard wasn’t that big of a deal. Sometimes though, I really missed having him at home with me. So on this particular night, the night of the huge spider, he had left for work. I was sitting near the foot of our bed, when I saw a shadow coming out from underneath the entertainment center. It was moving. It was huge. 

Now at this point in the story, I have to tell you I really don’t have arachnophobia, I am not afraid of them, unless they are coming out from under the entertainment center and heading toward my bed. I can’t go to sleep with a huge spider coming toward my bed. So I tried to get it with a shoe. Did I mention it was huge. It would see me coming, and go back under the entertainment center. This dude was smart! This happened several times. I would wait for it to come out from under the entertainment center, which took a while, then I would try to go get it. Each time, it would turn and run back under. It was getting really late, and I was exhausted. I really needed to go to bed. But there was no way I was going to bed with a huge spider headed toward my bed. I can just see it, I am asleep and the spider climbs in my mouth or my ear or, I can’t even think about it.

So I got desperate. I called my darlin at work and ask him if he would do me a favor. He said, “Sure, what is it?” I said, “Can you come home for a minute and help me kill this huge spider?” He said, “You’re kidding, right?” I said, “NO! I’m not kidding!” He only worked down the hill from our home so it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. So he did, he came home to help me kill a huge spider. This process did take a few minutes. I mentioned earlier that this huge spider had intelligence. My darlin tried a few times to get it, but it just kept going back under the entertainment center.

Finally my darlin said, “I’ll flush it out and you get it when it comes out the other side.” At this point, I was totally OK with this.

And it worked. That huge monster of a spider came running toward me and I screamed as I smashed it with a shoe! I am surprise our kids slept though my scream. It was ok that I had to scream, it was ok that my darlin had to come home from work during his break, I finally got to go to bed and that’s what needed to happen for me to get there.

My darlin, my hero!

Note to self: Call exterminator tomorrow.