Our Hero
We are an arachnophobic family. Nigel certainly fears bees and other flying insects, but spiders head the zero tolerance list for all of us. Aidan recently wore flip-flops in the house for a week when a spider hit had gone awry and the intended escaped. We don’t take these things lightly.
Last night, Nigel came up to pet one of our cats, Sheba, who was very interested in something on the floor. Nigel bent closer to look and immediately jumped back, gasping, “It’s a spider!” Sheba, as if on cue, pounced on the smallish pest, then stepped back and proceeded to eat it.
Nigel chuckled. “She’s a good cat. She’s a good bug killer.”
Then he kissed her head and said, “You mad, impetuous thing,” and went back to his room, secure in the knowledge that we have an effective spider slayer in our home.
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4 Responses to “Our Hero”
September 4th, 2008 at 4:40 am
cats are awesome!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Kitty saves the day! I hate spiders too….used not to be able to sleep until I looked at the ceiling and made sure they were all dead! We had a big spider problem in my parents house, and I was always getting bites.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
“You mad, impetuous thing?”
That has to be movie dialogue. Or is your Nigel channeling Cary Grant?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Movie dialogue - my thoughts exactly. I asked him, and he made some reference to Monty Python, but I’m not entirely sure. It certainly caught me by surprise! I hadn’t heard that one before, but it was quite appropriate for the situation, and too funny.
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