Catherine has always been afraid of spiders.
Once when she was 6 or 7, she stole down the stairs in the dead of night, wearing her favorite blue feetie pajamas — the ones with the clouds on them — and woke Basil up.
“Daddy,” she said, “there’s a spider in my room.”
Of course Basil got up, trudged upstairs and slayed the miniscule beast.
Tonight at dinner, fresh from lining up two more college tours, Catherine announced that she expects us to drive to school — whichever one she chooses — whenever she discovers a spider in the dorm. And kill it.
We told her to get her head examined, that she would have to kill dorm spiders all by herself, or else press her roommate into service.
“What will you do when you have your own children?” I asked.
Catherine looked at me as though I needed MY head examined.
“They’ll kill their own bugs. And mine too,” she replied. ” I can’t believe you even ASKED me that.”
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This is a great story. I hope that your child mustered up the courage to kill the spider. I love a can of bug spray and spray them until they are no longer moving. In fact, just a few days ago I found a huge spider in our garage needless to say he didn’t survive my bug spray. 😉
Posted by upliftingfam | July 30, 2013, 8:40 amToo funny!
Posted by Terri S. Vanech | July 31, 2013, 7:18 amI just read this to Bill, and he’s laughing. He does not like spiders — but will kill them. Bill says it’s too bad that Iris is so much younger than Catherine. She loves bugs and would happily remove them from Catherine’s presence. But that 11-year age gap at this point is huge! Unless she’d like to wait til Iris graduates so they can room together.
Posted by Karen Waggoner | July 27, 2013, 10:40 pmKaren, I bet Catherine will seriously consider that option!
Posted by Terri S. Vanech | July 28, 2013, 8:16 amI hate spiders too, so I understand 🙂 I had my roommates kill spiders in college!
Posted by Ann @Foodie in WV | July 27, 2013, 8:41 pm🙂
Posted by Terri S. Vanech | July 27, 2013, 8:47 pmThat is hilarious!!!! You raised an extremely intelligent daughter!!!
Posted by Judy Sickler | July 27, 2013, 8:23 pm🙂 She’s a lot like her mother! 😉
Posted by Terri S. Vanech | July 27, 2013, 8:27 pm