My wife and I spend a large portion of our summers up in the 780 area code, specifically Wabamun Lake. Last year, they had a whole whack of big-ol' spiders up there........Wolf spiders, I think they were. I'm not sure. On the way home, I was passing a semi and decided to flip down the sun visor. The biggest, ugliest spider I had ever seen was languishing on the visor. I started to scream - well, to be honest, squeal - in a pitch higher and louder than Buff's smoke detector. The kids woke up as I veered between the semi and the ditch. My wife frantically tried to squash the spider, but it got away. I spent the rest of our journey in a sweat, sure the spider was going to pounce at any time.
My wife did the big detail job on the car the next day. I just couldn't.
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