ok... i have a story about this. about a REAL spider. not these sissy little spiders that heidi screams about and runs away. some of them, yes it's ok to be scared of them... and some (even fewer) it's ok to scream at. but i'm guessing the one heidi saw was not scream or scare worthy. not until you've had this experience...
so, this past april my dad was away for business. and hayley and heidi are at school. so it's just me and my mom. hanging out, having a girls night. we ordered wedding date off of the renter thing on our satellite and we were sitting in the basement with a quart of baskin robbins and spoons just getting out of the bucket. about 15min into the movie i see this thing scurry out from under a basket and stand in the middle of the room. it was HUGE. literally. probably a good 5 inches around. and i just look at it. i'm like uh there's a spider. and my mom was like holy crap. so we decide we're going to try and kill it. ice cream is gone so i go to rince out the container to trap it. i come back my mom is getting ready to throw my high school graduation video at it (which we just managed to acquire... colin powell was our speaker
) and i was like NO YOU CAN'T USE THAT! so i'm standing on the coffee table trying to catch it with the ice cream bucket. but it moves so fast and every time it moves we jump and scream. so then we decide screw the ice cream thing just throw videos at it. we threw about 3 and kept missing cause it would move at the last second (if you could have seen me hovering over the spider... man!) so then it crawls on a dance dance revolution dance pad. and we think, ok, maybe we can get this out the backdoor. but we can't see where it is on the pad. so i move it and it comes running up the pad. i scream and drop it. now it would have been easy if my dad had been home, he could have just done it. we're like, what do we do. so i look at the time. it's about 11pm on a friday. and i think to myself, mr bowles just told me the other week that they eat really late on fridays and saturdays. i bet he's still up! (mr bowles, our neighbor across the street is also my boss...) so we go upstairs to find that my dog has thrown up EVERYWHERE. and it's disgusting. (we figured out later that she ate a whole bag of candy corn and that's what it was and why it was so gross). so my mom is trying to clean that up, while i run across the street to get my boss. now i think at first he was like what is wrong with these people. until he saw the spider himself and was lik oooooh you've got a good one. he tried catching it. it didn't work. so he eventually got it with the vacuum. although for the rest of the weekend i was scared to go by the vacuum because i thought it was going to crawl out and come get me. the scary thing is... if there's one, that means there's at least one more.... i have yet to see another one. but when i go near the basket it came from, i get chills...
Thank goodness they don't live over here.
Good luck, Erica! 
