2 Girls, A Spider, and a Broom, Oh My!!

After class before I got ready to workout I received a call from Liz. As soon as I heard her voice I could tell something awful had happened.

"Are you doing anything... like... now?" She asked.
"um... not really... What's up?" I replied.
"Well..." She paused. "I found a spider in my closet."

Words cannot express how hard I laughed at that moment. (Is that terrible of me?)
I could hear someone in the background and so I asked who else was there. It was just her and Tori - and they both were terrified! I agreed to head over and check it out, so in a few minutes I was headed up the stairs to their apartment. I arrived to find them both guarding the door to the closet, broom in hand. It was previously decided that Liz and Tori would be best served learning to take care of bugs on their own, so I refused to kill the spider (a very small daddy-long-legs as it turned out) and forced one of the girls to summon up the courage to do so. After a little whining they finally realized that I wasn't going to give in, and I handed Liz the broom, assuring her that she could reach and kill the spider without even entering the closet.

"Ewww! It's crawling toward my jacket! Don't get on my jacket!" she cried.
"Well, you better defend your jacket!" I smirked.

She finally mustered up some bravery and readied to take a swipe. What happened next is kind of a blur. All I know is that there was a swipe, a miss, a spider falling down, a scream, another scream, and two girls running as fast as they could out into the bedroom and behind the bed!

"I saw it flying at me!" Liz shrieked, "With it's eyes, and it's legs pointed right at me!"

You would be hard pressed to amuse me more than I was just then. Liz proceeded to inch back to the closet doorway and poke her head around wondering where the spider went. She took the handle of the broom and moved around a basket with it to uncover the spider slowly making its way back up the wall. After some prodding of the girls, it was Tori to stepped up. She grabbed the broom and took a huge sweep at the spider knocking it against the baseboard. And then she took 20 more! Up and down and back and forth, and forward and backward, and sideways, over and over until there was nothing left.

Disaster averted, I headed back to my apartment and then to work out - wondering what chaos would erupt in their apartment the next time, and hoping for a little courage.