Linus is afraid of spiders. Here's why:
- A few months back, he had a horrible dream in which spiders were crawling all over his top bunk. For weeks and weeks after that, he only slept in the bottom bunk.
- Once, he climbed into his car seat and got buckled in and then noticed a large spider right above his head.
- The same day as the spider-in-the-van incident, we met Todd for lunch at our favorite local burger house and Linus looked up to see a spider descending from the ceiling on a thread of silk directly above him.
- This past week, while I was in the bathroom helping Gwennie and Casper brush their teeth one morning, Linus locked himself in his room (where he was supposed to be getting dressed for the day) and climbed under his bed where he had apparently stashed a jar of almonds. He was enjoying a little snack when he saw a large spider heading right toward him. He scrambled out from under the bed (scraping up his little back) and then couldn't get out of his room. When I finally got to him, he was a bit on the hysterical side -- poor kid! Who can blame him? He watched me kill the spider with my shoe, promised never again to take food into his room, and then begged me to call an exterminator.
4 comments:
So much of this story reminds me of Graham - just substitute wasp for spider!
Poor Linus - it must have been so scary to be stuck under the bed with a mouth full of almonds, trying to escape the spider. I would have screamed, I'm sure.
Poor Linus! He's a spider magnet! On Friday Mo helped unpack our weekly organic veg delivery. A giant blue and white beetle had tagged along in the box. I put a glass over him and we took him outside. The whole time, Mo was insisting it was a spider. "Hi, ippsy spider!" says he. And then, waving from several feet away, "Please don't go in our kitchen, ippsy spider. Go outside!"
You can tell Linus that even my husband doesn't like spiders, but he actually he doesn't let the kids know that...and I had a recurring dream as a child for years and years about spiders. Yech!
Poor guy! That's the worst being stuck under a bed...true nightmare.
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