[Alex's Trip]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

I have one of those clear plastic container shelving units with three drawers that I keep Sonic Youth cds in, & in the bottom drawer there was this huge spider in there the other day. I tried to get up & grab some tissue to get it with, but he had hidden in the meantime. So, the next day he reappeared & I was ready & got it outside. It was the largest spider I'd seen in a long time.
I know, not very interesting.
My house right now is filled with crickets which is supposed to be good luck.
The other day, I went to the water cooler & at the base of it, this spider had pinned this cricket down. I let it be & the next day I went to clean up the cricket carcass & take it away & put it in the toilet. As soon as I reached down to get the cricket, the spider peeped out from underneath the water cooler as if to say, "hey, buddy, what are you doing there?...that's mine."
The stangest thing recently was there were two of these bugs that I saw on successive days. they looked like spiders. I think they had eight legs, (maybe it was only six --- which seems more likely) but the back two legs were like a grasshopper. When I tried to scoop them up in the tissue & put back outside, they would jump in unpredictable ways. It was weird, as if one of their hind legs were more powerful than the other, or as if they had control of which one was more powerful which caused them to jump in a manner that was not straight ahead like one would expect.

Oh God, jumping hybrid cricket spiders?