My spider story...or actually my sister's story

[ambiree at students.bradley.edu]

Okay,

my turn....I told you guys that I think my families fears are kinda funny...

well, my sister who is a tough-girl type (ie not afraid of anything) is 
terrified of spiders.  To my knowledge, she's never been bit or otherwise 
traumatized by the critters.  I don't like spiders myself, but my sister does 
what we call the "spider dance."  She screams, jumps, flails her arms and 
generally provides a good laugh to all.  Now, we live in the Midwest of the US, 
no real dangerous spiders, although occassionally we will get a brown recluse 
and the mosquitoes have West Nile Virus.  Me being a prankster, I love to get 
GREAT ideas.  

I borrowed one of those plastics Halloween spiders and tied a black thread to 
it.  Then I hung the thread from her bedroom door and made sure it was at eye 
level.  Then I turned off her light.  She came home later with friends and I 
TRIED to get her to come down the hall to her room.  She would not come near 
me.  So, I enlisted the aid of my mom, who was in on the joke.  She got my 
sister to come down the hall and look into her darkened bedroom.  Sis was about 
3 inches from the "spider" when her eyes suddenly focused on it.

She screamed, did the allout spider boogie, and practically crawled up my mom, 
who is the same height as us (that is to say we are all about 5 feet tall), 
before she figured out it was fake.  Then she grabbed it and threw it into her 
room (stupid move for a later date).  Then she whipped around and started 
flailing at my mom (not hurting her), but Sis missed me because I had fallen to 
the floor laughing hysterically.  To this day, my sister does not trust me when 
I want her to see something, and it's been 6 years.  But boy was it worth it.  
She still loves me. But mom doesn't get involved in my practical jokes on my 
sister anymore as she's the one who gets hurt everytime....mom's no fun.


Still thinking of ways to get my sis to do the spider dance.
-- 
Amber

***"The GWE has Spoken."--The GWE***