On Oct 2, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
Never understood why some people are afraid of spiders...
It's a funny thing. The front of my brain tells me that most of the spiders I encounter are quite harmless. Something much, much further back in my brain makes me want to run away, screaming like a little girl. Fortunately, despite the fact that the front of my brain is, in fact, damaged, I am able to trust it enough to capture even quite large spiders in a cup and transport them outside where they can do some good. This even extends to the Black Widows that are so prevalent in this area. I avoid killing them whenever possible. We had a really huge Black Widow in the storage shed for Apple's TV studio back in the early 90s that got a trip in a big plastic bag to the ivy across the parking lot. She was big in a Steve Irwin "Gawr, isn't she a beauty?" way. Made the hair on my arms stand on end just looking at her shining black sharpness. I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I told her that killing something that you outweigh by a factor of several million to one isn't facing your fear of it. She wasn't buying it. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
