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Spider Fright

anime_junkie_189

on Feb. 6, 2012

Still no photoshop, so you get another hand-drawn comic.
Anyways, this happened a few months ago, but it left a permanent impression on me. At the campus I go to school at, there are bathrooms that you can enter directly from outside. I usually avoid them because there's always, without fail, some manner of big scary bug inside. The first time there was what I believe was either a giant crane fly or a giant mosquito. Either way it was big and looked horrible. The second time there was a moth so big I could hear its wings flapping, and it was flailing around the light directly above my stall. I practically peed myself running out of that stall and into a different one.
That daddy longleg, however, was the final straw. As anyone who knows me can tell you, I am absolutely terrified of spiders of any kind. I don't care if it's a baby. I don't care if it's completely harmless. I don't care if it's not even technically a spider. If it looks like a spider, then I do not like it and it will never be my friend. I'm sorry, but no. I will sooner run from it or drop a book on it like the fist of God. >_<
As you can imagine, I don't use those bathrooms anymore. I'd sooner hold it for an hour or six than use those bathrooms again. I'll just walk the extra 150+ feet to the bathrooms inside the main building.