Growing Up Country, I’ll Just Sleep in Here

Here's a little someting to hopefully make you smile this weekend  I hate spiders

One thing about growing up in the country, they had some of the weirdest spiders you ever did see.  I mean the ones that we call "granddaddy long legs".  Now I know that there is a real name for them, but I do not know what it is, all I know is that the ones that are in Georgia they are twice as big!   Well, on with the story.  One night during the summer, I had to use the bathroom, late at night of all times.  Well it was a known fact that you do not drink much before going to bed, because, you do not want to have to get up during the night to walk down that long hall for nothing in the world.  Now you are probably thinking why not, well it is because of the spiders.  The granddaddy long legs and the "others". The weird looking ones, the ones that science has not yet given names.   They would spin webs during the night, and I hate walking into a web, gosh that is the worst! The spider could still be in the web; after all, it was where they lived right. So one night I had drank too much of grandma's red Kool-Aid, it was so good and cold, because it was so hot, at least 100 degrees.  I knew that I was drinking too much.  But we had flash lights that we used when walking down grandma's long hall to the bathroom at night, or anywhere we had to go in her house at night.  We had to if we wanted to see the spider and its web before we ran into it.  Well leave it to me, to have the flashlight with the dying batteries!!!  So I am on my way to the bathroom, I make it barely, to the bathroom, and I have to beat my flashlight constantly on my way down the hall.  Just as I get into the bathroom and hit the light switch; my flashlight dies.  Oh my, the Lord and luck is with me, because I am afraid of the Georgia dark.   But I still have a problem; how am I going to get back to my bedroom.  Now I hope that you do not think for one hot minute that I am going to walk back down that long dark hall.  Never knowing if I will run into a spider web, or a spider, or even worst a ghost!  I cut the light on in the bathroom I use it, flush the commode, then I peeks out of the bathroom door, the hall is dark...and long.  I hit my flash light again just hoping it might come back on, it does not.  I look out the bathroom door again.  I do not know what I expect to see, fairies to take me back to the room or what.  No I see nothing but darkness.   Oh my goodness, I hit a spider web with my face.  You see it does not take them long to spin a web.  They spin their webs at night, so in the morning, surprise; you run into it, and it makes you so mad!  So I knew I was not going to be walking down that hall, because where there is a web, there is a spider.  So I begin to look around the bathroom, for a comfortable place to sleep.  Because this is where I was going to have to bed down that night.  There was no way I was going to go back down that hall.  Now to a 10 year old who is scared to death of the Georgia dark, a hall that is barely 5 feet long, looks like it is about 20 feet long, and so very dark and creepy and filled with spiders not yet discovered.  They had not yet discovered night lights to my regret.  So I checked out the bath tub.  It appeared to be clear of bugs.  If I rolled my rob up right I had a great pillow.   Yes I would sleep with the light on; spiders do not like the light, only the dark.  It was summertime, and the good thing was that the ceramic tub was cool, so it was all right.  Well I had made my bed hard by drinking to much red kool-aid before bedtime, so I had to sleep in it.  Good night and sweet dreams.