spider type scream

I wear flip flops almost all year long. There has to be deep snow in order for me to put on my tennis shoes, even then it's negotiable. I am lucky to be warm blooded I guess, and the whale blubber helps too. But I have a confession to make, I wear flip-flops because I have always had a fear of putting my toes into a shoe and then feeling a spider in there! I'm sure this is the real reason people in Africa don't wear shoes. Ahhh, so irrational I know, but it could happen and it totally scares me! My fear was made worse one day listening to the Today show's Matt Lauer tell a story about finding a scorpion in his shoe on one of his "where in the world is Matt Lauer" trips. Oh my gosh! The spider wouldn't even have to bite me, I would die of cardiac arrest! So, on Saturday I had to go out to the car for something, and while in the garage decided to slip on some snow boots due to the deep deep snow in the driveway. I was getting ready to slip my bare vulnerable piggies into Rich's snow boot when I looked and saw a BIG brown spider sitting right on the edge. Did I scream? Oh baby, I have never screamed like that before. Poor Rich came into the garage with a look of terror on his face, expecting to see Ethan or me bleeding to death and instead I yelled "spider! kill the spider!" He was so mad! But he killed the spider. After it was all over, I ended up wearing flip flops out to the car and my poor neighbor Don was shoveling his walk and said, "everything ok in there?" Poor guy! Completely humiliated, I told him the whole sad story and he said, like a true dad, "ah, I have daughters and should've recognized the scream". So that's it, I don't think I wear anything but flip flops for a while. Oh well.