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todayiamadaisy ([personal profile] todayiamadaisy) wrote2020-11-20 10:03 pm
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Do mice love cats?

Excitement today! (Very mild.) We went to the supermarket early to do our weekly shop and carried the bags out to my mother's car. I raised the boot and said, "Ooh!" I pointed at the thing I'd just seen.

My mother leant forward, finger extended to poke the thing, then jumped back and said, "Ooh!"

"Why were you going to poke it?" I asked her.

"I don't have my glasses on, I thought it was a snail."

It wasn't a snail, though. It was a large wolf spider. (Arachnophobes, don't click that link.)

We left it there, on the side of the boot lid, until we got home. Then my mother found a long stick and poked the spider gently until it ran off the car and into the garden. "I don't begrudge it living," she said firmly, "but not in my car."