Tuesday, August 29, 2023

THE GIANT SPIDER IN PORTLAND

  

Remember the "something" we needed?  We needed a spider, or a skeleton, either one.  We needed it for the golf cart we were driving all through the 4-H Jay County fairgrounds, the Tri-State Tractor Show, and the city wide yard sales.  

Vendors were selling fall floral decos, Halloween booing characters on metal legs, orange painted pumpkin propane tanks, and dancing skeletons on sticks for kids.  

"Let's get a black spider!"

We had to go to Dollar General for ant spray and ... ta-da ... there was a spider!

When I came around the aisle end cap and surprised them with it, our ride along, Clint, chuckled.  Jeani squealed. Then the brain caught up with her fight-or-flight instinct, "Really!"  


Driving around a policeman conferring with a show's director, who was absentmindedly watching me drive by, popped off with "Does your spider bite?"  ROFL

Motoring around another guy relaxing in his own golf cart, who looked like he was just waiting on his wife to finish shopping, we heard his reaction.  He'd caught a glimpse of a furry leg passing his face, and involuntarily let out a visceral sound and uttered, "Gees!"

   See pic above.
Jacob was okay with the spider, as long as the windshield was between them.  When Miss Lilly, his sister, picked it up, he was gone!  Run, squeal, scream, "No. No! No-o-o-o!"

But the best of all was my friend Jeani.  She's always good for a kind comment and a laugh.  We were having fun with the red-eyed fuzzy web maker, and becoming complacent about its presence.  A man coming towards us in his own golf cart, commented, "Hey, you got a spider on your wind shield!"

Jeani began quickly searching for it, aiming to dislodge and annihilate, "Where?  Where?"  Then she laughed,

"SERIOUSLY, I WAS LOOKING FOR A SPIDER!"

LOL, weren't we all!







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