Had to move a heap of stuff out of my storage shed today, because I finally got around to cleaning my shed out at home to make room for it. So I hired a truck and a couple of nice, burly boys to shift in 1 hour, what would have taken me days, had I done it on my own.

Anyway, we get to the shed and the big burly boys go all girly over the spiders. I tried to reassure them that nobody has died from a redback bite in Australia for over 50 years, and that if they did get bitten at the very least it was a few days off work on compo... to no avail.

Now, admittedly, they were very large spiders, and of course, this is Alice Springs, so they were venomous redback spiders, into the bargain, but I mean really... big boys with steel-cap boots going all ga-ga over some little black and red creatures with eight legs? What's the world coming to?.

I like spiders. Partly because it's fun to be the only grown-up in the room sometimes, who can deal with the little daddy long legs in the corner freaking the rest of the grown-ups out. But mostly because spiders eat bugs and I hate bugs. Anything that eats bugs, therefore, is cool by me.

Why do I hate bugs? Well, bugs run fast and fly into your ears, for one thing, while spiders are content to sit in the corner and wait for you  to come to them.

Spiders are predictable. You can see where they live because they have houses everyone can see. Bugs, on the other hand, are sneaky, lurking in your cupboards in the darkness and running away when you turn on the light. Spiders are quiet. They don't fly around the room all night buzzing, keeping you awake, or waiting until you go to sleep so they can drain your blood and give you things like malaria, encephalitis and Ross River fever.

Spiders will just sit in the corner and be cool.

So you see, my enemy's enemy is my friend:)

Go spidey!

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I still prefer bugs... Spiders are just plain creepy.

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