[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: spider story

[Tammy Rizzo]

On 29 Oct 2003 at 14:33, Jen Reese wrote:

> Jen, who doesn't have a creepy spider story but *does* live in 
> Texas, home of all the creepy-crawlies other people mentioned and
> thousands more....

I don't have a creepy spider story, either, but I *did* live in Texas, home of all the 
creepy-- er, yeah, what Jen said.  I did once see, perching proud as a peacock on 
one of our poor scraggly bushes, a . . . flying insect of some sort, I *THINK*.  It 
looked like a mosquito, if a mosquito could have a body as long and thick as my 
pinky finger, with a proportionate legspan and black wings.  It wasn't a wasp -- it had 
the charactaristic long proboscis of a mosquito, but it was as large as a small 
hummingbird!  Freaked me out, lemme tell ya; even for Texas, that thing was 
oversized!  We lived fairly close to a nuclear power plant, and I couldn't help 
thinking that that . . . that THING must have come from there.  So, of course, I've 
been leery of 'Evil Mutant Radioactive Insect Thingy' movies since then.  :)

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