To: SuziQ
One of the Girl Scout leaders got bitten by a brown recluse spider on the Encampment we went on weekend before last. She's got a NASTY looking area on her forehead where it bit her. It had been in her sleeping bag. I made sure to roll my bag up tight before I left the tent in the morning so no critters had a chance to move in while I was gone!Yikes! I washed my sheets and turned over the mattress--no sign of Shelob :) Hope it doesn't come back when I'm sleeping, though. . .I'm having visions of that scene in Dr. No where the tarantula crawls up Sean Connery! :)
4,286 posted on
05/20/2004 5:04:02 PM PDT by
Fedora
(Smeagol-Gollum 2004: "We can be our own VP, my Precious")
To: Fedora
EEEeevenin' all! [sip]
A good friend of mine was a Navy corpsman, spent a lot of time training in the jungles of panama with the Marines. He told stories of the "banana spiders" there. Big yellow jobs, the size of salad plates. They were harmless really, but they liked to crawl into warm, tight places... like sleeping bags. the guys would wake up in the morning with six of 'em in the bag with 'em.
Just hearing the story gave me a case of the willies that lasted a week or so. [shudder]
4,288 posted on
05/20/2004 5:11:48 PM PDT by
Ramius
(There may come a time when the strength of men fails, but it is NOT THIS DAY!)
To: Fedora
I'm having visions of that scene in Dr. No where the tarantula crawls up Sean Connery! Ever see Arachnophobia ?
4,413 posted on
05/20/2004 7:27:42 PM PDT by
Corin Stormhands
(Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?)
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