Tina picked me up the other day. We were going to the store for a quick errand. As soon as I got in the car, she exclaimed, ” Henry died!” I asked her who had died afraid she was talking about Henry, the maintenance guy here in the mobile home park. She said, “Henry! Our spider. Our pet spider!” Big sigh of relief but then I asked her about the spider.
She went on to tell me in detail about how a spider appeared in their bathroom back in about May or June. It was a little spider and they just left it alone. One day one of the boys accidentally displaced it and Chris picked it up and put in ton the shower curtain. She talked about how the spider slowly found its way from the shower curtain to a corner on their tub organizing tray. Henry lived there since then. Chris even would feed it bugs every few days…bugs he would pick off of his plants.
Yup, I was smiling and on the verge of laughing out loud.
She went on and on, talking about how sad it was; how upsetting; how she wanted to go out and find another spider to bring inside and make into a pet. I reminded her that spiders have a short-ish life cycle. She agreed but still kept trying to figure out why it died. I counted out the months for her…it was at least seven months old since they noticed it.
Well, she kept talking about Henry until we got to the store ten minutes later. That was the longest she had talked about any one subject in a long, long time so I didn’t have the heart to ask her when she got so friendly with spiders. It wasn’t all that long ago that the tiniest of spiders would make her scream and cry. It wasn’t that long ago since the “I hate spiders!” incident (which if you really want to smile, you’ll go read it).
That was my smile for the week. Even now, telling you about it, I’m smiling!
When you’re done smiling, go on over to Trent’s blog and read about the Weekly Smile blog hop, think of a smile you would like to share with us and write it up and enter it on the linky for this week’s blog hop. You have the whole week, until next Tuesday night to do it!
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
She is welcome to Henry.
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I’M smiling!!
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Oh what a sweet smile. My uncle used to have a tarantula that did cause many great laughs too.
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I don’t know about a tarantula! I might not smile about that although I know when my son got a baby python and asked me to hold it while he went to the bathroom, I did and was surprised that they weren’t slimy or yucky in any way so maybe a tarantula would grow on me.
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it wasn’t a poisonous one, but maybe I’ll make one of the stories I hard into a little piece of flash fiction 🙂
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Always good to read something that makes me smile. I’ve way too many Henry’s in my house.
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I joked with her that we should go find a replacement for Henry and put him in the bathroom before the boys found out. ( We did that with a pet mouse that was “played with” by one of the cats while my daughter was in school…the older daughter and I drove to three or four pet stores looking for a Louie to replace my youngest daughter’s pet before she got home.)
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Poor Henry. Poor Tina. My guess is 7 months is very old for a spider! That is funny and yes, I smiled 🙂
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Yes, she googled it and found that spiders only live for 8 or so months with some lasting as long as 12 months. We don’t know how old Henry was when he popped into their bathroom so we figure he died of old age!
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Perhaps Henry needed a Charlotte! 😊
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