It's the spiders that get me. I've always been glad I live in a climate where such creatures don't grow very big--until at a camp this summer someone brought a large wolf spider (I think that's what they called it) into the dining room. Shudder! I'm trying to convince myself that since it's taken me 50 years to see such a thing in a place where I've done a lot of forest exploring, it will be another 50 before I see the next one. I'm not sure I've succeeded.
My grandmother, on the other hand, was like you Sam. She kept trying to persuade my grandfather that having a pet tarantula would be a good idea. He refused. He also caught her trying to smuggle a snake home in her purse from the snake dens we visited and made her put it back. When she went to my mom's for my sister's wedding and saw a spider egg sac in a corner of the washroom, she successfully convinced my mom to leave it alone and allow all the spiders to hatch. Horrors!
I forgot the lizards. Those I can tolerate. We've had a number of pet anoles, one large iguana and two smaller ones. We've also had pet turtles and frogs (which aren't lizards, I realize).
Bats? Lizards? Snakes? Spiders? I'm sorry, but we're going to have to ask you to sit on a scale with a duck, just to be sure. (If that makes no sense to you, you are not a geek).
I'm not fond of spiders but the webs are cool. I like snakes but couldn't have one as a pet as I would have to feed it mice and rats and I like mice and rats. We get geckos in the house sometimes in Texas so i understand the lizard thing. Besides whats wrong with being a witch if you're a nice one?
The snake sounds good. The lizards sound good. But the bat freaks me right out. (Rabies!)
ReplyDeleteIt's the spiders that get me. I've always been glad I live in a climate where such creatures don't grow very big--until at a camp this summer someone brought a large wolf spider (I think that's what they called it) into the dining room. Shudder! I'm trying to convince myself that since it's taken me 50 years to see such a thing in a place where I've done a lot of forest exploring, it will be another 50 before I see the next one. I'm not sure I've succeeded.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother, on the other hand, was like you Sam. She kept trying to persuade my grandfather that having a pet tarantula would be a good idea. He refused. He also caught her trying to smuggle a snake home in her purse from the snake dens we visited and made her put it back. When she went to my mom's for my sister's wedding and saw a spider egg sac in a corner of the washroom, she successfully convinced my mom to leave it alone and allow all the spiders to hatch. Horrors!
I forgot the lizards. Those I can tolerate. We've had a number of pet anoles, one large iguana and two smaller ones. We've also had pet turtles and frogs (which aren't lizards, I realize).
ReplyDeleteBats? Lizards? Snakes? Spiders? I'm sorry, but we're going to have to ask you to sit on a scale with a duck, just to be sure. (If that makes no sense to you, you are not a geek).
ReplyDeleteI'm not fond of spiders but the webs are cool. I like snakes but couldn't have one as a pet as I would have to feed it mice and rats and I like mice and rats. We get geckos in the house sometimes in Texas so i understand the lizard thing. Besides whats wrong with being a witch if you're a nice one?
ReplyDeleteI like all of the above. Let's go bat-watching one night. Rabies schmabies.
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