That was GREAT!

Funny thing.....I'm a big ol' guy at 6'-3" and about 260 lbs, with a 54" chest, a 38" waist, 24+ inches across the shoulders, and size 14 feet, and I'm not afraid of too much, including spiders. But I've gotta confess: For some reason, Grandaddy Longlegs absolutely creep me out!

Here's a couple of spider stories, though:

When my wife and I were first married we were given a set of sheets and pillowcases that had a kind of leaf-print pattern on them. One night we were in bed and I guess I kind of half woke up, and I was laying on my stomach. I must have half opened my eyes, and on the pillowcase right in front of my eye, too close to focus, was one of those leaf-print things, and honest to God it looked like a spider. It surprised me I guess, and I kind of exclaimed something, which caused my wife to wake up and ask what was wrong. All I could gasp was "Spider!".

That was when it got exciting.

She threw those sheets and pillowcases away.

Another time we had gone to bed, and I was laying there almost asleep, and I felt the pitter-patter of 8 little legs across my back. I calmly explained to my wife that a spider just ran across my back. (I figured she would want to know, you know?) Well, she probably thought back to the pillowcase incident, and told me that I was full of cr@p! I told her "Whatever you say, but it was running your way!"

Well, it got exciting again. She jumped up, turned on the lights, and ripped all of the sheets and blankets off of the bed, and sure enough found a big wolf spider in the bed. She beat it to death with a slipper!

I've got a couple of black snake stories, too, if anyone's interested.

Later.