A Month in the Life

Everyone has some sort of fear. Mine [Alicia] is spiders. Irrational but true and I can’t help it. Just a few weeks ago in quiz practice my brother says “Alicia, move to your left, but do NOT stand up”. I took this to mean there was a spider directly above me and in my haste to move, I tripped on the leg of my chair and fell, injuring myself. Having a certain level of pride rather than admit how much I had just hurt myself, I left quiz practice, went to the bathroom to assess the injury, decided it was bad enough to go home and left to put an ice pack on my swollen knees. All for an imaginary spider.


Two weeks ago I pull into my garage at home and see a monster spider directly in front of my car. I panic (this has happened before when my brother wasn’t home and I chased it out of the garage with spider spray that did not kill it) and thinking that my brother was awake, go downstairs to plead with him to kill the monster spider. This wakes him up, which annoys him (he doesn’t share this fear). He replies that he is not getting up to go kill something that is OUTside. So, I leave it and say a prayer that monster spider shows up on his car door handle some day.

Okay, this is Chauntay now and I want to tell you that I, too, have a deathly fear of spiders. It’s my cross to bear in life. I think all spiders are out to get me; they seek me out. Okay maybe that’s a little bit dramatic, but whatever, ha. So one night this week I almost have a meltdown on the way home from work. I felt something on my arm, look over and brush it. Then I feel something again, see something dark and swipe at it again. Then I look down and there is a napkin on my lap and what do I see? A black GORILLA (not really) spider running a marathon across my lap. Did I have a meltdown? Oh absolutely. It’s times like these I know God has his hand on me because I could have killed myself, or someone else. I was in the fast lane on the interstate and I quickly weaved to the opposite side of the interstate because I was intent on the spider. As I was crossing lanes the spider went airborne across my car to the passenger seat. This of course freaks me out because knowing my luck, and the fact that I’m a statistic, this spider is a female, pregnant, and due any minute to have hundreds of little creatures in my car. So that’s just great. Now I have to sell my car. Well anyway, I want to. Also these times are the times that I just about have to pray through! Luckily, God gives me strenth to make it.

I think it would make us both feel better about ourselves if there were others who had an irrational but very real fear. In fact, why don’t you let us know what they are. Please leave us a comment!

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