Damn… that’s not cool Dad! I don’t know where my fear for spiders came from but can tell you that Eddie Money’s pet tarantula attacked me and my roommate unexpectedly one night. It’s was insane! My roommate instinctually stomped on him so the attack was short lived but Eddie didn’t seem too broken up about it. I guess he had left his cage open and the little guy got out- several days later he was jumping at us from the dark corner of our back patio. I thought tarantulas might have been indigenous to the area and was ready to move my happy butt back to San Francisco. Upon running into Eddie at the mailbox, I found out it was probably his pet. 🤷🏼♀️ Truth is stranger than fiction :)
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The Eddie Money? No kidding!? I would be drooling in a funny farm if a tarantula ever jumped out at me!!! Seriously, I think I'm more afraid of them than snakes, and that's saying plenty!
My dad doesn't even remember doing it! Because it's come up many times over the years haha
Oh yeah, he was our neighbor when I moved to LA after college. I tripped out a little (okay, I tripped out a lot). I was ready to ship my stuff back home, to San Francisco. Good thing I stuck it out because that’s when @dandays and I nurtured our relationship… I guess you can say Eddie brought us closer together. Haha
Haha… “sure Dad”. I remember my dad always treating me like a little boy. Lol… he would always fart on me. Haha… I probably should keep that to myself but 🤷🏼♀️ “thanks Dad”. Haha
So cool that you knew Eddie Money, his tarantula and you and @dandays became as one there :) Thanks Eddie! :)
Lol dads !!!
Haha… I knew his tarantula better than I knew him 🤦🏼♀️
Come to think of it ‘where were you Dad when the tarantula was crouching in the corner ready to strike?” … haha
Speaking of tarantulas, @dandays and I were in the car yesterday for a quick ride up the street when I see out of the corner of my eye a big buggy thing about to hang down from the passenger side window. I clipped my seat belt off instantly and crab crawled myself into the back seat. Dandays was yelling, “what is it” and then it revealed itself… a spider the size of a quarter, black, thick, hairy like a tarantula, was living in the sill of the passenger side window. At the stop light, Dandays grabbed a napkin from the center console and was able to flick it out into the street… not so fast, I spotted him again so we quickly rolled up the window. This guy was huge… we got to our destination where Dandays was able to corral him onto the pavement and the little bugger ran off under the car. I wasn’t too comfortable with this outcome but it was better than sharing my seat with him.
We were laughing “what would you do if a snake fell from the sky at you” or “jumped at you from the darkest corner of your backyard”.
I’m convinced it was a baby tarantula. Of course, I naturally then looked up spiders as my spirit animal. 🤷🏼♀️ Haha
hahahaha @puravidaville, that is hilarious!! I would have totally done the same thing, and probably ran the car up and down the driveway for an hour trying to kill the damn thing! And then later at night, I'd be checking any little red marks on my body or my hair, strand by strand, checking for bites or places where it might have laid some eggs!
LOL falling snakes!!
Haha… for sure. I actually was super hesitant to get back in the car. I kind of did a running/jumping crouching movement to burst through the threshold of the spiders old home and missed by a lot hitting my head and shoulder on the frame of the vehicle. Haha… Dandays immediately grabbed my head, hugging it while laughing and asking if I was alright. Haha… for days I’ve been sketch getting in and out of the car. We have so many bug-spider stories it’s ridiculous. I really do think they are attracted to me for whatever reason… maybe spirit animal ? 🤷🏼♀️
hahaha the spider gymnast! Yep, I'd be wearing gloves to open and close the car door haha
Learn to love that spirit animal then!! :)