Rude awakening ...

So ...

Half an hour or so ago, I'm all sleepy, just woken up and struggling to focus my eyes, checking my phone in the dark to see if there's any messages etc when I hear H outside the bedroom door, dashing from the bathroom, making noises like she's ill or something.

 

H: oooh ... arrrgh ... spi

me: what? WHAT?? what's up?

H: in there ... big ... towel ...

me: what?

H: spider...on the towel ... huge ..

me: you want ME to get it? I hate them as much as you. You sure it's still there?

H: yes. on the towel. the black towel. I thought it was fluff....

 

The bath is still running. H is hiding behind me, I'm looking at the two towels she has draped over the side of the sink, both black, and I can't see anything. I'm the only one in the bathroom at this point since she is way, way behind on the landing. I'm advancing on the towels like this spider, wherever it is, is going to leap out and grab me by the throat ...

 

H: you're going to have to shut yourself in there to find it.

me: what? Nooo.... let me see .... I can't see anything, you sure it was a spider?

H: .... leave it, it's ok.

me: what, you'll look for it?

H: no, I won't bother with the bath after all....

 

So anyway - you know how these things are, tentatively move just the corner of the top towel and wait for movement - nothing. Gradually move it and unfold it - still nothing.

Get it off the sink ever so slowly, completely unfold, shake it - nothing.

One down, one to go....

(my heart is beating so fast - despite me taking photos of them, I am so scared - my usual fear is that I know there's one there somewhere, but that it will run off and I won't know where it's gone.

 

Unfold the corner of the second towel - and there it is.

me: .uh gasp...eeww ... it's big...

H: not fluff then?

me: get me a glass. Pass me some paper....

 

Caught.

Photographed.

Released.

 

Not sleepy anymore, surprisingly.

Done