Monday, September 1, 2014

The One About Robin--THE SCARIEST THING I'VE ENCOUNTERED THUS FAR...

Not in the sense of being about How I Met Your Mother.
Nor in the sense of being about Friends.
Nor in the sense of being about work (but I'm tagging you because I told you I'd tag you. -Patrice)

It's actually not about any of those things, but really about

HAIR CLUMPS.

As someone who is quite afraid of spiders, I must state this with no sarcastic tones whatsoever: hair clumps terrify me. (I hope that did make sense, but I'm not in the right mind to go back and correct it if it does not make sense.) When my hair was longer, it used to clump up on my clothes when I would do laundry and I would often find it poking through shirt arms, resting underneath my pants pockets, or hanging down from the bottom of my hemming.

I like to have a fan going in my room the majority of the year.

It just so happens that on my pajama pants tonight, there was a hair clump, of the generally dark-colored nature. When one is not entirely devoted to staring at their pants while sitting on the bed, a certain rotating fan may cause a certain hair clump to move in the breeze. This specific motion may resemble spider-like movements.

It does resemble spider-like movements.

I thought there was a spider on my pants. A large, spindly spider on my pants.

Alas, a hair clump. My heart jumped into my mouth for no reason.

Time went on. The fan kept rotating, I regained a calm, steady heartbeat. When suddenly

OH GOD IT'S ANOTHER SPIDER. In the exact same spot as the last one! With the same body composure! And the same coloring! And it moves exactly the same way...

Wait. It's a hair clump. The same hair clump I neglected to move from earlier. The same hair clump that has now caused my heart to beat intensely on more than one occasion. The hair clump don't know it is killing me very good. 

The only thing worse (currently) than a hair clump posing as a spider, other than it being an actual spider on my leg, is this beautiful work of art:


Sleep soundly, cherubs.