JDelekto: I definitely love our eight-legged arachnids, but there was one time that I had no choice but to blow one away.
There I was, sitting at a red light, looking ahead when all of the sudden this tiny blurry thing began to slowly descend, weave and bob in front of my face. The light was just about to change when my eyes finally crossed and focused upon a fairly small spider which seemed to be just casually repelling down from the roof of my car's interior.
He was probably a good four inches from my nose, but when the light changed and I accelerated, the force of the acceleration swung him back towards me like Tarzan.
Not wanting a nose encounter of the 3rd kind, I pursed my lips and kept trying to blow the little fellow away from my face, in quick short puffs: whoo.. whoo... whoo...
Well, that had all the effect of getting him going in a nice elliptical motion where he was away from my face one moment, only to appear on the other side as close and personal as a 3D movie.
How I managed to keep him swinging while I was negotiating traffic was due to the fact that I was only on a two lane road with light traffic, but did eventually come to a stop at a stop sign causing him to swing forward and me to duck.
At that point, he was still dangling, a little bit of wobble as he was trying to keep his own equilibrium. I rolled down the window, grabbed his anchored thread from the roof and gently placed him outside on the car door, rolling the window up like a mad man.
People behind me were going nuts because I took a bit more than 20 seconds at the stop sign, but if they had been sitting in my seat, they would have been a bit more understanding.
That was the most exciting thing I've read all day.
