It’s not what you think. Although, you will say WHAT??

It’s a spider!

For your sake I didn’t include a picture even though I really wanted to.

Yeah, awhile back I saw a spider in my bathroom and I just walked on by. I’m not afraid of these brown furry quarter size spiders. If you live in Oklahoma you’ll see them in your house quite a bit and in different coin sizes. You’ll also have crickets in your house or around your house A LOT. Which brings me to my story.

So I see this spider in my bathroom and it’s minding its own business and I’m minding mine. I’ve seen another one, or maybe the same one in the kitchen or some other room at other times and again, why should I care, it’s not bothering me. What I have been noticing are dead crickets all over the place. Near the bathroom especially, but pieces of them will be around the front and back doors and kitchen floor. I seriously don’t have any awareness for anything and can get distracted by everything so all those times a live cricket was in my house and thought to myself that I need to remember to sweep it out later, well I forgot. I never think about it again until the next time I see a live cricket. One time I was playing a video game and saw one walking across my bedroom floor (why was it in my room? weirdo) and told myself I needed to get it out before bed. Because if you’ve ever had a cricket get into your house and stay alive, they will be LOUD with their cricketing as soon as you get all cozy in bed. Then you have to get up to go find it and they like to hide. It’s worse when you don’t have wall to wall carpet and it just echos through your house. You’re searching under furniture and behind shelves. You won’t have time for sleep nightmares because your awake nightmare is trying to throw that cricket out of your house.

Ok, back to the story. What I hadn’t been noticing is that all those live crickets were not causing any problems. I stepped on a dead one near my bed, I’m guessing it was that creep I saw when I was playing my game. I don’t know how long crickets live so I assumed it just reached its expiration date. But thinking back I was like wow, things really don’t survive in my house.

Anyway, I was in my bathroom one day and actually witnessed The Spider destroying a cricket! Then it all made sense, The Spider has been getting rid of all the crickets! Which is super cool, because I didn’t have to. You would probably freak out because a spider has been crawling around underneath your bed killing things and that sounds like a real nightmare but I think of it like I have Snow White powers and all the forest creatures (actual scary creatures in my case) like her and take care of her.

Dearest Darling: there’s a spider in your kitchen.

Me: it lives here, leave it alone!

Dearest Darling: I will, I just wanted you to know.

She wouldn’t hurt it and she didn’t freak out, she was only telling me in case I wanted her to take it outside.

That was the conversation that made me realize I liked The Spider and hoped that it’s been the same one all this time. I don’t know how long they live either but by now we’re probably friends. So I’ve been calling it a roommate. I even got worried about it when I didn’t see it for a few days. But we met up in the middle of the kitchen soon after and both stopped in front of each other. After about two seconds I stepped aside to let it know I’m no danger to it and we both went on about our day.