One of the worst feelings in the world is waking up from a nice, peaceful sleep, wandering into the bathroom looking forward to a hot shower and finding a giant spider in the bathtub.
Because then you're faced with a conundrum. Do you wash that sucker down the drain and risk coming back in your next life as a slug or a tax collector, or do you trap it and take it outside?
Almost always the compassionate side of my brain wins out and I take it outside. This morning though, it's raining and I was faced with having to get dressed, find a cup to trap it in, find a dry spot outside, and release it. I chose instead to convince myself that it was a black widow and that it would come back and bite me, or worse, my dogs, if I did that.
So I blasted it with the faucet and watched it struggle for life as it was washed down the drain.
I hate the smell of death in the morning.
Because then you're faced with a conundrum. Do you wash that sucker down the drain and risk coming back in your next life as a slug or a tax collector, or do you trap it and take it outside?
Almost always the compassionate side of my brain wins out and I take it outside. This morning though, it's raining and I was faced with having to get dressed, find a cup to trap it in, find a dry spot outside, and release it. I chose instead to convince myself that it was a black widow and that it would come back and bite me, or worse, my dogs, if I did that.
So I blasted it with the faucet and watched it struggle for life as it was washed down the drain.
I hate the smell of death in the morning.
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Besides, there's no way to account for the hundreds or possibly even thousands of insects you accidentally murder when you use the shower (or any other faucet) any other day. You only see the ones that pop out of the drain...
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