I'VE NEVER TOLD you about a certain relation of ours — slightly phobic when it comes to spiders — who, early in his marriage, moved with his wife to an area where scorpions were common. One hot summer afternoon, while working in the garden, he went in the house to pee. While standing at the toilet, he felt a spider slowly crawl down his back. In a panic, he began to wildly swing his arms to swat it away, peeing all over the walls and floor before realizing it wasn't a spider after all. It was sweat.
NOTE: The title is from the poem "The Spider and the Fly" written in 1829 by English writer Mary Howitt.
NUNCA TE LO conté de un pariente nuestro — un poco fóbico cuando se trata de arañas — que, al principio de su matrimonio, se mudó con su esposa a un área donde los escorpiones eran comunes. Una calurosa tarde de verano, mientras trabajaba en el jardín, entró a casa a orinar. Mientras estaba parado en el baño, sintió una araña que se arrastraba lentamente por su espalda. Presa del pánico, comenzó a balancear violentamente sus brazos para sacudirlo, oriñó sobre las paredes y el piso antes de darse cuenta de que, después de todo, no era una araña. Fue sudor.
NOTA: El título es del poema "La Araña y la Mosca" escrito en 1829 por la escritora inglesa Mary Howitt.
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| SAN GERALDO DOWNSTAIRS AT CAFE BARBORU SUNDAY MORNING. I DON'T THINK THAT'S SWEAT. SAN GERALDO ABAJO EN EL CAFE BARBORU DOMINGO POR LA MAÑANA. NO CREO QUE ESO ES SUDOR. |
I don't like spiders and snakes.
ReplyDeleteTravel:
DeleteAnd that ain't what it takes to love me... (or are you too young for that song?)
Yikes, that would have been a mess to clean up! Great spider on San Gerardo's head.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day.
Robin:
DeleteAnd I don't think HE wast he one to clean it up either!
That's pretty funny
ReplyDeleteAdam:
DeleteWe thought so. He didn't think so until much later.
A new spring/autumn bonnet, indeed!
ReplyDeleteRon:
DeleteAnd it's so Jerry!
Spiders are suppose to be good for the house....they keep other bug population down, but i still don't want them.
ReplyDeletemistress maddie:
DeleteI agree. Also, they bite!
Another reason to sit while you pee.
ReplyDeleteWilma:
DeleteI hadn't thought of that.
I love that story, that would have been me though.
ReplyDeleteCheapchick:
DeleteStanding and peeing?
I like spiders and snakes...non-poisonous ones, of course!
ReplyDeleteanne marie:
DeleteNot a fan of either.
I like spiders actually. Now a scorpion may be another matter!!
ReplyDeleteSan Geraldo seems to like this creature on his head!! lol
Jim:
DeleteSan Geraldo will do anything! Scorpions, tarantulas... I will keep my distance.
Ha!
ReplyDeleteNo pee involved, but one time, while carrying an apple pie in a glass pie pan, from the car, into the house, after Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's house... I felt something wind around my ankles. I was sure it was the opossum that we too frequently saw in our back yard, by the garage, and I SCREAMED bloody murder and THREW the pie pan up in the air. It crashed to the ground.... right next to my scarf... which was what was REALLY wrapped around my ankles.
Lost some good home-made pie, too.
Judy
Judy:
DeleteNow that's tragic. I had a friend who screamed for help because a pervert was feeling up her legs in broad daylight in Washington DC. Turns out the elastic on her slip had given out and what she felt was the slip slowly slithering down until it was around her ankles.
Ha, ha, ha ! That made me laugh and Mrs H told me that you have gone down in her estimation... it is along story. Herself told me before moving here from Brighton that her was greatest fear was spiders and on the day that she moved in what creature greeted her on her first trip to closet 'A Big Black Spider' it must have been all 2 inches diameter. Well, needless to say she is now more used to seeing them and even makes paper ladders so that they can climb out of the bath !
ReplyDeleteHeron:
DeletePaper ladders!?! That's something my sister would have done. She does know spiders can climb... well, never mind. My sister wouldn't let my brother-in-law kill garden slugs. "It's beautiful," she cried.
I'd have probably peed everywhere also if I thought a spider or scorpion was crawling on me.
ReplyDeleteStephen:
DeleteMe too... Well, scorpion, though... the pee would have frozen in its track.
Just plain wrong this is.
ReplyDeleteSpo:
DeleteYou could wear your horned helmet with the spider.
My Other Half is a super cool customer when it comes to things like this. One day he had to do a urine test for a doctors appointment. Mid-stream he looks down and there is a spider on his shoulder. I do not know how, but he flicked it off his shoulder while continuing everything else he was doing. Not a drop spilled. Amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteSnoskred:
Deletei don't know what I would have done in that situation. I don't think I would have peed all over the room, but I also don't think I would have been as calm as your husband.
I too have a fear of spiders however I know that they are our "friends" so no longer stomp and kill the way I once did. However the sight of me trying to coax one into a glass so I can deposit it out of doors is a comic one - so I've been told. And thank you for that wonderful video... a good moral lesson.
ReplyDeleteWillym:
DeleteI must admit, I do commit spidercide. I appreciate their place in the world, but they bite.
Tell San Geraldo his new toupee ain't foolin' nobody.
ReplyDeleteDebra:
DeleteAnd he doesn't even need a toupee. You don't see ME walking around with one on MY head.