Friday, November 23, 2018

22/ The Phone Booth


Back when we lived in Manhattan and had a weekend house in Pennsylvania, I had not yet made friends with insects and spiders, and cell phones were no more than a gleam in some inventor’s eye. Because of the latter, when we were a couple of miles into our trip back to the city one Sunday evening and I needed to make a phone call, we pulled over by a phone booth.

Remember phone booths? The ones I’m familiar with had a folding door and glass (plastic?) walls. And an interior light. I entered the booth, closed the door, and the light came on automatically. I made my call, and something—I don’t know what—made me look up. Daddy Long Legs spiders (“Harvestmen,” technically not spiders—but I wasn’t thinking technically), covered the ceiling in a mass many spiders deep.


7 comments:

  1. omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg

    Two or three daddy long legs? Ok. What you describe here? horrifying.

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  2. Eeeek! And oh, phone booths. I kind of miss them.

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  3. OK, that is the stuff of nightmares.

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  4. Oh my goodness. Even I would be freaked out by that.

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  5. This reminds me of that time a couple called 911 because they were trapped in their bedroom by their vicious pet cat sitting outside the door. https://abcnews.go.com/US/911-call-reports-irate-cat-trapped-couple-home/story?id=24478936

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  6. P.S. Did the new monitor help?

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  7. Sorry I'm just reading this now. A couple daddy-long-legs, no problem, but this is horrible.

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