Phobias

I have 3 very real phobias. The first one is of snakes/worms. Anything that can move that fast, without legs, is NOT normal. I have been afraid of them for as long as I can remember!

My second phobia didn't start until I was an adult. Heights! I was never afraid of heights as a child. We use to go swimming at a place called Butler Jr. High in Salt Lake when I was little, and they had platforms to dive from. I'm talking Olympic style platforms. My cousins and brother and I would launch ourselves from the top platform without thinking twice about it! I was also a cheerleader in high school, and between my friend Liz and I, we were always at the top of the pyramids, or being thrown around. NO FEAR! Now, I don't think I could ever ride on Landon's shoulders without being paralyzed with fear.

My last, but certainly no least phobia is spiders. Now I know that most people don't really care for spiders, but I'm talking panic stricken fear of them. Every shape every size! Which leads me to the purpose of my post!

I left to day to meet Lan for lunch, and about 5 minutes into my drive a thick, furry spider (I swear baby tirantula) came crawling across my dashboard. I flipped. I look around for something to try to squish it with, and luckily still had my towel from my run that morning in the car. I double up this towel and go for the squish. As I went to pick it up, to make sure I had it, it fell!!! I slammed on my brakes, and slid to a stop. Jumped out of my car, and tried to find it! NO GO. I was far enough from home at that point, that I couldn't walk back but was too far from Landon to walk to him for help! I decide to climb back in the car, and procede to drive like a maniac to where I was meeting Landon for lunch. I was hunched up against my door, and I kept stomping my feet so it wouldn't get on them!

Landon checks my car, and cannot find this dang spider. I'm like, we're trading cars until you do! I think he thinks I'm kidding, and I'm NOT! He keeps telling me that he thinks I probably killed it, and that it's dead and curled up in a ball. I KNOW IT'S NOT! It's totally waiting for me it get back into that car so it can attack me when I'm not expecting it. We have our lunch, and get back to our cars and I make him start to look for it again. I'm sitting in the middle seat, and all of a sudden it comes crawling across the floor, and into the heating vent under the driver seat! I scream for Landon. We crank up the heat-nothing. We crank on the A/C-nothing. I go to his car to get a screwdriver to see if I can flush him out because Lan can see him in there. Just as I get back to the car, it's coming out of the vent, and Landon crushes it! Instant relief! I really didn't think I could drive my car again until it was found.