Spider June 9, 2009

This horrible incident happened a few weeks ago when I was at home for the weekend. It was around 6.30 p.m. on a lazy Sunday evening when I was taking a bath after driving my mom to a restaurant for some sort of wedding dinner. As usual, I take off my glasses and put it on the shelf.

I was happily washing my hair and when I turned around, I saw a very blurry and dark shadow on the wall just a few inches from me. My degree of myopia (or also more commonly known as near-sighted) is about 400 degree, which is rather high, and I can’t see very clearly without my glasses. Everything is a total blur image to me. So, I was very curious to see a shadow on the wall. I wonder what was it. The first thought that ran through my brain was “It’s a moth!”

Then, I took my glasses from the shelf and put it on… And to my horror, I saw a gigantic, monstrous, atrocious, ugly SPIDER! Its huge. Really huge! Its like 20 or 30 times bigger than the normal tiny, weeny spider that we see everyday! And it was like a few micromililiter from my face!

Of course, the first normal thing that I do was screamed. I screamed and screamed and screamed. Then, I leaped from that spot immediately and tried to hide my body from that monster as far as possible. However, the bathroom is so small that I can hardly find a place to hide. Then I waited.

Wait for what?

I was waiting for my brother to come shouting at me and asking what is wrong and why was I screeching like a banshee just now. However, there was no shouting from my brother after a few minutes. I was wondering where on earth is he and only realized that my brother was not at home. He went for some dunno what camp at Rompin that week.

SHIT! I was all alone. No. Wait. I’m not alone. My dad is in his room, watching tv. But, its useless anyway. He can’t hear me from his room.

So, I did the only thing that I can think of. I grab the shower and bath really, really fast (I usually take 25 minutes to bath) without taking my eyes off from that spider. Then rushed out from the bathroom as soon as possible, and closed the door, hoping that it will disappear after I came back from dinner with my dad.

After dinner with my dad (we ate outside since my mom was not at home to cook for us), I opened the bathroom door just a few inches and peer inside, looking for that monster. Thank God, it was not there anymore. I can finally breathe, a sigh of relief coming out.

And in case you all are wondering if I am lying about the size of the spider, I have taken some pictures of it. Hmm… I am wondering now how come I have the time and nerve to take picture of this spider when I can practically take a stack of newspaper and snap it.