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Scary-Ass Shit

:: Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 @ 9:00:14 pm

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this thing watched me sleep, all night

I woke up this morning to find something on the sliding door. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the thing was THREE-AND-A-HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER and had EIGHT EYES, TWO HUGE FANGS/INCISORS, and SPIKES ON ITS LEGS; clearly, it was one of the scariest fucking things I had ever seen.

Naturally, I caught the thing and hid it in the closet so that the cleaning lady wouldn’t prematurely dispose of it or die of a heart attack or something.

I related the story to the others while on the dive boat, and Natalie (a visiting dive instructor from Montreal) informed me that she had captured a scorpion in her room just the other day. I quickly hatched a plan to make them fight, but… well, it didn’t happen. I can assure you that there would have been a scary-ass critter duel to the death if Kenny had more vacation time and had been with me on the trip. Damn him! Instead, I just took some photos before hurling it off into the bush, where it landed with a loud THUMP.

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  1. posted by jim on Tue, April 12, 2005 @ 11:36 pm

    shudder
    now i’m all itchy.

  2. posted by Dave P on Tue, April 12, 2005 @ 11:51 pm

    Hmmm, I bet with a light tempura-style batter it would fry up nicely. Dipped in a light lime/soy/ginger sauce…yum!

  3. posted by Tyler on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 3:36 am

    that’s gross :P i’m still so impressed with your underwater shark pictures, and envious too ^^

  4. posted by Elliot on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 10:10 am

    I think it is Shelob. You’re lucky you were not cocooned in your sleep.

  5. posted by Mer on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 11:13 am

    Nooooooooo.

  6. posted by Aaron on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 8:45 pm

    Looks like you’ve found the one, Eric.

  7. posted by syndromes on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 8:55 pm

    Hahahaha Aaaron

  8. posted by lauretta on Wed, April 13, 2005 @ 10:37 pm

    Aaron - FUNNY !! New caption for Eric:
    “Arach-No-Romance in Paradise Complete”.

  9. posted by Guest on Fri, April 15, 2005 @ 12:44 am

    Come on, man. You swim around with tiger sharks and then you’re scared of a spider?! :)

  10. posted by annalise on Sun, April 17, 2005 @ 10:33 pm

    yikes! that’s such a sickening creature!

  11. posted by randomguru on Mon, April 18, 2005 @ 7:27 pm

    man, dude! that is one scary creature you shared a room with! eek ;o)

  12. posted by andrew on Mon, April 25, 2005 @ 6:10 pm

    what happened that prevented the scorpion-tarantula(?) fight?

  13. posted by Janice on Thu, May 05, 2005 @ 11:26 pm

    I forget that that picture might still be on the front page of your journal sometimes. So, I forget hold my hand in front of the screen while loading your page. (Pathetic huh?) Scares me half to death. Write something lengthy so it no longer graces the front page. Haha.

  14. posted by Joanna on Wed, July 13, 2005 @ 7:05 pm

    That is scary.At least you are not watched by a Tiger shark at night while sleeping.The thought of that rather large spider crawling on you while you are sleeping…..ewww

  15. posted by Edwin on Mon, October 23, 2006 @ 9:04 am

    This is some fucked up shit…it makes you wonder why the hell thing’s like this even exist in this world.

  16. posted by Susan on Wed, June 06, 2007 @ 7:52 am

    Ewwwwwwwwww:( thats freaky!!!!!!! but on the other hand it is kinda cool. But it would have scared the SHIT out of me!!!chills

  17. posted by Alex Gentry on Mon, October 15, 2007 @ 10:09 pm

    I HATE Spiders

  18. posted by echeng on Tue, November 13, 2007 @ 9:17 pm

    You know, the only reason this is the most popular post in ALL of my journal entries is because it has the words “ass” and “shit” in it. Oh, and there’s an f-bomb in there as well.

    You guys are sick! :)

  19. posted by 2007 post statistics | Eric Cheng’s Journal on Mon, December 31, 2007 @ 8:13 pm

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  20. posted by Michele on Tue, January 08, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
  21. posted by echeng on Tue, January 08, 2008 @ 3:28 pm

    Michele - nice! that happened at Vienna’s place once. She had something we re-hyphenated as “ass-lotion.” :)

  22. posted by ashley lenartson on Sun, February 03, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

    great pix of a scarry spider. it is scarry. I wouldn’t want it around me.

  23. posted by pablito on Wed, September 10, 2008 @ 2:19 am

    Spent two weeks at a meditation retreat some years back. One night there was an enormous scary spider sitting in the ceiling over my straw sleeping mat. Normally I woulda run outta there screaming, but with the meditation thing going full on, in my zen state, it was all good and beautiful, like me and the spider were best friends, him helping me out by catching the huge insects and lizards running about the li´l bamboo hut I was staying in. Took plenty pictures of it, said good night to it, went to sleep. :)

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