Reply #4: There was this little niche at my middle school [View All]

[DarkTirade]

where my friends and I would sit every morning and wait for class to start. There was a little knee-high wall that ran along and we sat in the back corner where it actually went past the full sized wall and then doubled back, so we had a little somewhat out of sight corner to sit in where we wouldn't be bothered.

Anyhow, every time something interesting happened there it always happened on a day when EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends' buses were late. So I was always the only one to see it. One time I walked up and found a poor little bat, couldn't find his way home so he was clinging to the bricks and sleeping. He was so cute, like a little mouse with wings. :) And of course, none of my friends were there on time. And by the time we left to head back to our buses, the bat had gone.

Then there was the other time. I was sitting there, waiting for my friends to show up. Their buses were all late. So there I sat. And waited. And waited. And got very bored, and started looking around. I noticed a small spiderweb in the corner, only a few inches away from my leg. I wasn't comfortable having it near me, so I grabbed a stick and squished it. Then I looked at it.

... yep. Black widow. I'd been sitting next to it for 5-10 minutes.

Then there was the time we found one on our porch. We had a set of those plastic porch chairs, and when my little sister was born we thought it would be cute to have a miniature one. So we found a tiny little one that was bright red. Then one day, while cleaning the porch, my dad picked up the chairs and was going to move them outside so we could hose them off. When he picked up my baby sister's bright red little chair, what should fall out right towards his face... but a nice little black widow spider!

And there was much squishing and cursing.