Today’s task was to talk of fears, in a style distinct from my own. So in taking a break from my seemingly endless sentences I have crammed ten full stops into just fifty three words…
Arachnophobe.
My blood had chilled. It was flowing around my body in an icy haze. He was taunting me. I was petrified.
He could read every sign. Of course he could. You don’t miss much with eight eyes.
I was minding my own business. He invaded my peripheral. Now we were at a standoff.
Nice. One of my great fears too.
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I love it! I actually like spiders. They eat bugs! I try and keep a few in the house.
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Yes but you’re a cat. You eat them too 😉
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Only if they come down onto the bed! Then is fair game. 😉
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This is why I have always loved cats! When I was little I used to pick mine up and point it at any spiders so he gobbled them up and I didn’t have to get rid of them.
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Ooh no I couldn’t do that. Knowing my luck if I kept just one small one it’d lay eggs and then there would be big trouble…
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LOL! I’ve had that happen in the cellar. My wife went down to do laundry and came running up screaming. They had hatched and covered half the ceiling with webs overnight. 😀
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Oh no!! That sounds absolutely horrific!
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Yah, even I was a little creeped out. :-}
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Bravo wordsmith ^_^
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I think you nailed it and I had to laugh!! I truly did not read yours before I wrote mine, but I see we are on the same wavelength! 🙂
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How funny! I’ve just read yours, it’s given me the heebie jeebies.
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I like spiders
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Noooooo!!!
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Haha sorry! But it’s quite naughsty to squish them. I’d prefer to capture and release outside.
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It is, you’re right, and I’m such an animal lover that it does make me feel awful to hurt something, but I’m not comfortable if there’s one around until I know it’s definitely gone. I don’t see them much being in London anyway, which I guess is as good for the spiders as it is for me!
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We have a ton of spiders here and I’ve seen some preeetty big spiders around that compliment some preeeetty big mosquitoes. These I have no problem smashing.
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Ooh yes mosquitoes are not friendly at all. I have never been bitten by a spider (touch wood), but I have been chomped on by plenty of mosquitoes and would happily never encounter one for the rest of my days.
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I live near a swamp so I can’t hope for that. Spider bite sounds pretty disturbing though.
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Wow. I have never seen a three-word sentence from you. How far out of your comfort zone has this frugal wordspider pulled you?
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It demolished my comfort zone with its horridly heinous hairy legs with their spindly ends just tap tap tapping on the floor. Grim.
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🙂
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53 words against 8 eyes. Good chances for you.
I did not know that the spiders had so many eyes. Thanks.
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Eight eyes and eight legs!
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Then…it is better to run. Sorry 🙂
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