My Creepy Walk

[FloatyGimpy]

It felt like I was in some sort of horror movie today while on my walk. I was walking my dog on an old logging road with forest on either side. It’s a bit windy and hilly so you can’t always see very far in front of you.

Suddenly two vultures and a raven loudly took off right beside me (scaring the crap out of me and my dog) from where they’d been eating a dead raccoon.

I walked into a huge spider web that was strung across the road and turned into a stealth-ninja getting it off of me.

A large garter snake, who was sunning himself on the hot dirt, suddenly slithered away seconds before I stepped on it making me jump again.

Then I found a deer skull just sitting on the side of the road:

I picked up on my way back to the car and hung it on my fence:

Looks pretty cool!

[ioioio]

There’s probably still a spider crawling on you somewhere, most likely in your hair.

[Beckdawrek]

Cool skull. Do you live on my road? It’s a crap shoot guessing what I’m gonna see walking the dogs. Always interesting, though.

[Filbert]

To you, creepy; to me, a nice wildlife walk

[don_t_ask]

If the birds had pecked you, the spider had bitten you and the snake had struck you, it could have been an average Australian bush walk. Mind you, the skull would probably have been human.

[chappachula]

@Beckdawrek

Do you live on my road? It’s a crap shoot guessing what I’m gonna see walking the dogs. Always interesting, though.

Hmm…I sense a thread coming up about a bad, bad, bad dogwalk,

[WOOKINPANUB]

@ioioio

There’s probably still a spider crawling on you somewhere, most likely in your hair.

I imagine it probably laid some eggs in the OP’s ear before he shooed it away:eek:

[TRC4941]

@Filbert

To you, creepy; to me, a nice wildlife walk

I agree! I love seeing cool stuff like that when I’m walking in the woods.

[Chefguy]

I thought the OP was describing the way he ambles down the street, frightening children and skeeving out young women.

[wguy123]

@Chefguy

I thought the OP was describing the way he ambles down the street, frightening children and skeeving out young women.

My thought too! I also thought “nice username/title combo”.

[FloatyGimpy]

@ioioio

There’s probably still a spider crawling on you somewhere, most likely in your hair.

There was a spider on me later in the day. But it was just a little jumper so it didn’t freak me out. In fact I put him out on the deck and then held a small mirror up to him to watch him prance around and then run and hide.

Try it - it’s super entertaining!

@Chefguy

I thought the OP was describing the way he ambles down the street, frightening children and skeeving out young women.

I’m a 5’2 woman so the only thing frightening about me is my large German Shepherd and she’s not all that brave. Though, when push comes to shove and she feels that I am in danger, she steps up to the plate.

[kayaker]

We had a friend visit a couple summers ago and decided to take her for a walk in the woods. At one point she was poking around at something on the ground and she asked, “hey guys, are there bears around here?”.

I looked at what she was interested in and told her, yes, we occasionally see black bears, but they do not use toilet paper. (there was a wad of soiled tissues a few feet away from the pile)

[Jasmine]

@FloatyGimpy

There was a spider on me later in the day. But it was just a little jumper so it didn’t freak me out.

The only spider that I was ever (knowingly) bitten by was your so-called “little jumper”, and it felt like a hot pin was put in my forearm! In college, a few of us gathered at a friend’s rather ratty apartment that had old windows that you had to manually pull up to get some air. It was stuck, so I propped my elbows on the window sill so I could get leverage. As the window started to go up, the little tenant was startled and offended by my actions. OW! A tiny spider but a painful bite!

[Darren_Garrison]

@Chefguy

I thought the OP was describing the way he ambles down the street, frightening children and skeeving out young women.

Me, too–I was imagining something maybe similar to the “keep on trucking” shirt in motion.

[FloatyGimpy]

@Jasmine

The only spider that I was ever (knowingly) bitten by was your so-called “little jumper”, and it felt like a hot pin was put in my forearm!

But they’re so cute!

Phidippus regius | "Regal Jumper"

[Chefguy]

@FloatyGimpy

But they’re so cute!

Phidippus regius | "Regal Jumper" | Patrick Zephyr Photography

I like the little guys who are aware of your presence. They stop and look at you to see if you’re going to make a move in their direction. I always give them a pass in our spider eradication program.

Oh, and apologies for the gender confusion.

[FloatyGimpy]

@Chefguy

I like the little guys who are aware of your presence. They stop and look at you to see if you’re going to make a move in their direction. I always give them a pass in our spider eradication program.

Oh, and apologies for the gender confusion.

They’re awesome! Watch this short (< 4 minutes) video of an amazing jumping spider plan out a complicated ambush:

I don't kill any spiders (on purpose) and catch them and put them outside. If a large one is on me I may freak out and accidentally mash it as I try to get it off.

[Sunny_Daze]

I’ll be honest. I was expecting a bear.

[raventhief]

How delightfully macabre.

[romansperson]

We have spiders here that will literally overnight build giant webs - like from the lower branches of a tree or the side of the garage all the way down to the ground, or to whatever other stationary object is closest. I walk into one of these about a half dozen times a year. It feels just as gross the 100th time as it did the first.