So Jess and I decided to go to the mall today. I rolled her out to my car, which was parked in the ASSAF parking lot, and we thought we would try to put her wheelchair into my trunk instead of the backseat (it was dirty from rolling through the mud). I opened up my trunk (which I haven’t looked into since I moved in), and there was a web spun through half of it, and spider crawling around on it. And not just any spider, no–it was a black widow… I kind of screamed…..a lot.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t just leave it there; I had to do something about it. So I took off my flip flop and held it threateningly over the spider. I was even scared to attempt to kill it, because what if I missed and it disappeared before I could take another shot? I can’t have a black widow running around in my car. But I finally gathered up the nerve to launch my attack, and I smashed it. So there is a black widow smushed carcass in the trunk of my car. Hopefully, it was the only one…

That, paired with the dead locust in my back windshield kind of has me fed up with bugs. All bugs—beware! I will show no mercy!