Spider!

So I thought, I'm gonna get a pet spider, so I asked my dad, what do spiders eat? and he said, insects, you moron, so I went around the house looking for spiders, and and I found one underneath my windowsill but it had only 7 legs, and I wanted a healthy one so then I went in the shower and found two, and one was dead so I threw it away, and the other one had 7 legs as well, which was ridiculous
so then i went upstairs and i found one dangling from the ceiling...YESSS!!! IT HAD 8 LEGS!!! but was it alive? So I poked it, and it started spinning, so I thought maybe it was dizzy and then five minutes later, it was STILL spinning so I decided it wasn't dead
and i started to pick it up with some tissue
and it jumped off the tissue and went all the way to the floor, the idiot; thats a LONG way down to the floor (for a spider) and I tried to find it but it had gone
so I gave up, and then I went into the bathroom
and found one by the bin; it had 8 legs AND it was alive, so I thought, I'm getting this one! and I coaxed it onto the piece of tissue, but it ran OVER the tissue and towards the toilet, so I spent 10 minutes chasing it out of the bathroom and then into my bedroom
and then I realised I needed a box to put it in so I put the tissue over it and it was stuck for a while cos it couldnt lift the tissue; in the meantime, I tried to find a box and I couldn't find one so I got a piece of paper
and tried to make it into a box; it was a crap box and I put the spider into it, and the spider crawled up the side of the box and crawled OUT of the box and went under my bed, which was frustrating and I looked under my bed but it had disappeared again so i thought, screw this, I give up.

True story. Happened yesterday, in my house.

Hahah.

Maybe you should go buy a spider. They might come in a box, or something to house it in. Then, you'll not only have a healthy spider, with all of it's legs, but a box as well. :D

wewt.

Nah...I don't want one anymore. But I spent so much time trying to get a house spider that lived in the local environment that I thought I'd tell you lot about about it. :D

Hahah.

Nice.

Haha that's funny
i needed a laugh today

I swear to all that is holy and not, if you turn a spider into a pet or even buy one, I am NEVER coming to visit you EVER. I can maybe sorta understand if you got a spider from your house because they will die out soon, but don't you DARE buy a spider. Especially the big hairy ones! ugh i think i'm going to throw up now. great.

I'm serious though. And if you should so happen to get one, don't tell me if you ever want me to visit while i'm in England. okay?

lol. I can't believe you spent that long chasing spidders. haha. you could come to my house and chase down ever last spider we have. please do. I might actually be able to sleep then.

lol.

Oh my goodness, how many spiders do you have in your house???
I really hope that my house doesn't have that many spiders.... i am literally petrified of them. I can hardly look at a photo of one, sounds silly, but thats the way it is sometimes :-)
Why not go for something like a dog, or a cat maybe???

I was trying to find another meaning to your story, cuz I thought you were joking.
That's a very funny story and the 7 legs part is ridiculous. I don't find a meaning to it, apart from the fact that you were probably soooooooo bored to do anything else. and how come you've got that many spiders in your house, I got one under my bed and I'm scared to go to sleep.

Well......

Ariel: No, no, don't do that. You see, when you turn up in London I can bring my spider along to meet you (I was thinking of calling him Phantasm after this brilliant gory movie, but I still havent managed to catch one) and then I can leap out of the shadows and watch him eat your face off. :D And then...well, perhaps I'd better check if I'm getting a poisonous one or not.

Lol, your last line I misread and for a second I thought you said you wanted to sleep with a spider :D hehehe

Iris: Let's see...I was really surprised to actually have to put EFFORT into finding spiders, there were loads usually, I once found a few in my room, a few behind my piano, there was this particular one I visited every day at the same time, just to watch it, and before the week was out it was dead.

So I have a couple in my bedroom, probably one in the bathroom, maybe some hanging from the ceiling in one of the other bedrooms, probably one in the ceiling of my downstairs bedroom...and a few dangling in the shower. At least there were. So that's about a dozen. :p

And my mum doesnt like cats or dogs, she says she's allergic but I bet she isn't :) so thats why I settled for a spider.

Dark Secrets: Yes, there is a meaning to my story. The meaning is that if you wander around your house trying to catch a spider as a pet which actually has the right amount of legs then get a large box ready. And a lid. I even intended on going out into the garden and gathering some ants for food. For the spider, you know.
(Btw some of them really did have 7 legs. I couldnt understand why, I counted them and recounted them several times...)

So.

I still havent found a spider as a pet. In fact, I'm going to get another pet. Like in the garden. Unfortunately there are mainly insects in the garden and I'd rather have something that eats insects. Like an anteater, you know.

I thought about getting a slug for a few minutes but then I couldnt think what to call it, and Sluggy seemed too unoriginal. Nah. Forget the slug. I'll think of something else.

EWWWW ADRIAN NO!

NO SPIDERS YUCK!

what are u thinkin!

Hehe
i hate spiders too

i hope u give up on ur efforts to find a pet.
but if u dont i will just kill it when i come to visit..hehe

Haha I agree with Samantha. Adrian, please don't let your stupid pet spider eat me. That would be such a blow on my vacation.

This is just too funny. I run screaming any time a spider even gets near me, much less I could never go looking for one. I cant believe you actually picked it up! *shudders!* I actually cant do any kind of insect at all. Not even a caterpillar, they are so fuzzy it is creepy and makes my skin crawl! LOL

Hahahahahaha! I've totally done that! I went around my mom's house and my dad's house looking for spiders. I found a black widow once and kept it in a little glass jar in my room. I thought my mom was going to have a heart attack when she found it. Since then she's made sure her house is free of spiders. The same with my dad's house, though the maids keep it that way. But then I found a little garden snake at my dad's house and I've kept her. Her name is Sally and she's a sweetie. My dad loves her as well. we dip her in paint and let her crawl around on the canvas on the floor. She's amazing.

So while spiders are fun pets, I might suggest a snake. They are fun and easier to cuddle with. :)

Yessss! Yesssssssssssssssss! Sssss. I want a snake now. Sss. Sss. Sssssssssssssssssssssss.

Now where am i going to find a snake? The closest to that around here is an earthworm.

Hmmm.
Maybe I'll look around for a large insect. I've decided, however, that I don't want a tapeworm, because if tapeworms get inside your body, they live inside your stomach and grow inside your stomach, living off food that you eat. So you get hungrier. :p

And Ariel, if you kill my spider, I'll find a really big one that you can't kill. Or a really fast one that will creep down your neck. Hehe.

Still haven't found a spider...and I was having my shower last night and I found two new spiders up there :D Perhaps I'll have one of those...

Ah oh my god I just imagined a spider crawling down my neck. ew!!! ugh.

get a snake. I like snakes. They are cute and fun and interesting.

Not sure tapeworm is a good idea like you said. lol. Neither is ring worm. haha. but earth worms, you feed them scraps, they poop soil so you have healthy fertilizer. true statement right there. My mom has earthworms in a bin and we feed em our scraps. then we grow our food with their poop. its win-win all around. :D

No, I don't think I want an earthworm either...I want a pet inside the house or something and if they just start crapping soil in my bedroom my mum and sister will start singing terribly at me until I get rid of it.

Mm, I don't want fertilizer, I'd only want it for plants. I tried growing an orange plant once and it got as far as putting the seeds in. Growth stopped there. :D

Sssssso....a snake. Ssss.
I was born in the Year of the Snake, btw. :D

hey, I saw some new spiders in my room today. I'll look at them when I get some time.

Go for the snake. PLEASE. or maybe a rat. Oh I love rats! They are so sweet and fun and their little paws are too cute! I had a rat once. Her name was Brownie. My favorite thing ever.

Yeah, get a rat!

We've got a rat. It lived in our kitchen and drove my mum wild. My dad had to kill it with a ton of rat poison. Man, it stank for a week afterwards. All we could smell was its corpse.

I bet it's got a whole family living underneath our floorboards...or more accurately, under my room. :p
Seriously, you won't like this rat. It's not cute. I think it's got rabies or something...

Lol, one of my favourite teddy bears is called Brownie. I called it that cos it...is...brown. :D

And I don't want a rat either, so there.

*juggles*

Anyone got any ideas apart from the snake?

Turtle? Racoon? Possum? hedgehog? lol.. I don't know... Oh a fox! I always wanted a fox! you should get a fox! I've got some across the street from me! ah...

I would get a fox, but Samantha is already my fox...hehe.
Turtle...too slow. Raccoon...I might get the urge to eat it. Possum...I am already the possum. Hedgehog...too spiky.

Is there any creature you can find in your garden that isn't like that?

Lizard? oooo! got it! PET ROCK! :D lol... um.. how about... a bird? no I hate birds... hm...

I've already got a pet rock. And before you ask it was NOT called Rocky :D

Nope, I see no lizards in my garden...and catching birds will be tricky. They might eat me, or fly somewhere stupid.

Well... then snake it is

But I don't want a snake. I want something that lives in my garden which I can pick up easily. If I buy a pet I know I'll be wasting my money.

Then find a snake in the garden! There are garden snakes that are not venomous and easy to care for and fun! I've had one before!

There are no snakes in my garden...tis snake-free...this is London I must remind you. :D

Let me think...hmm...i got it! A squirrel!

Haha YES! get a squirrel! I hate those little things! gah! go get one!

But I don't have any nuts to feed it...and how can you hate squirrels?? :O

I hate american squirrels. they steal your food and binders and clothes and eat through them and then mock you. gah.

don't feed it nuts... I haven't the slightest idea what they eat but i'm sure it's not limited to nuts.

So what do they eat if not nuts?

There's a few squirrels around...I don't think I'll be able to get them in the house though. What should I get...I think I'll stick to the spiders. :D

I don't know.. look it up.

ugh. spiders. please don't.

Spiders spiders spiders!!!!

Ok, I finally made a star-shaped box to keep my spider in. And I took ages cutting out a paper lid with the correct kind of holes in.

There were two spiders on the ceiling of my bathroom. I got one of them down. It landed and disappeared. I think it probably landed in the bin.

The other one fell of the ceiling and fell in the toilet. Man I had to fish him out.

And AFTER I'd fished him out, it took like 15 minutes to get him into the box. I finally got him in though.

And then showed him to my sister. She was a bit skeptical when I said I had a spider in a box. But that was because just before, I'd come to her and said "Look! My new pet!" and shown her an empty box and said "Look! Look! It's INVISIBLE!"

Well then my mum found out and said, Adrian, just threw it away, and she threw it out the window.

Then she said the box I'd made was now infested by the touch of the spider and threw away the box too.

Hmm.
Time for Plan B.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! haha that's the best thing I've ever heard!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! oh man.

And then she asked what I thought I was supposed to feed him, and I said without a doubt, "Ants."

Then she told me not to infest the house with insects. About ten minutes later I decided I didn't want a pet anyway. :D

And I am completely confident that by tomorrow morning I will want another spider. :D

Haha i have no doubt you won't! You'll be looking for spiders soon enough. lol

Just get another spider

Don't encourage him!!!

Catch a frog or toad and feed him all these spiders that are apparently infesting your house lol