Blogging meme post #1
May. 29th, 2009 03:27 pmOkay, let's get this one out of the way, since it's easy. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
urania_calliope asked, "What worries you more: the spider or the bite?"
The spider. No contest.
The thing is, I don't really think of spiders as biting kinds of pests. Not the way I think of, say, mosquitoes. Like, if I see a mosquito, I want to kill it precisely because I know it's going to suck my blood and leave me with a big, itchy, red welt. Spiders, on the other hand, freak me out just by being creepy-crawly and having way more legs than are really necessary (don't even get me started on centipedes). The threat of being bitten on top of that is kind of superfluous. Seriously, I'm fidgeting and getting phantom itches just sitting here thinking about them crawling around. Even the supposedly good spiders that won't hurt you and are helpful because they eat insects - nuh-uh. Squash 'em all, I say.
Thank goodness I have a cat that kills bugs and leaves them on the floor for me to find. Or at the very least, gives the bug a fierce meowing until I come along to kill it with a tissue.
urania_calliope asked, "What worries you more: the spider or the bite?"The spider. No contest.
The thing is, I don't really think of spiders as biting kinds of pests. Not the way I think of, say, mosquitoes. Like, if I see a mosquito, I want to kill it precisely because I know it's going to suck my blood and leave me with a big, itchy, red welt. Spiders, on the other hand, freak me out just by being creepy-crawly and having way more legs than are really necessary (don't even get me started on centipedes). The threat of being bitten on top of that is kind of superfluous. Seriously, I'm fidgeting and getting phantom itches just sitting here thinking about them crawling around. Even the supposedly good spiders that won't hurt you and are helpful because they eat insects - nuh-uh. Squash 'em all, I say.
Thank goodness I have a cat that kills bugs and leaves them on the floor for me to find. Or at the very least, gives the bug a fierce meowing until I come along to kill it with a tissue.
