One day I went to the backyard to find a light bulb instead of the old one which was broken in the bedroom. While I was moving stuff and boxes, suddenly, a big round black mess rapidly scrambled across the wall and immediately disappeared in the break of the wall at the corner. But that really scared me a lot. Guess what it was. I bet you already knew the answer. Indeed, it was a spider. I’m not afraid of cockroaches, wasps, leeches or even bigger ones like snakes, rats, turtles. Actually, these insects and small creatures were in company with my childhood. But once seeing a spider, of course not a small one, I’m quite uncomfortable all my body. Why? Let me tell you a story of mine.
Many years ago I was a little boy living in countryside in the south of Taiwan. Occasionally, I would see a big spider staying on the upper window while I was bathing. I usually took the bathe over with quiet. That day a very big one unexpectedly came out from the gap of the window. It’s abnormally terribly big. I was hurriedly running out of the bathroom and constantly screaming with all my strength. At that time a solder was living in my house. He quickly came over and took a broom to strike the spider. At his third time, he killed it and from its belly instantly came up hundreds of small spiders and spread out everywhere. I wouldn't forget the scene at the moment forever. From that time on, the spider becomes a nightmare of mine. Afterward, I still killed some with fright when I grew up. I remembered at a time I killed one by using up half a bottle of insecticide. I almost got poisoned of myself.
I don’t know why the spider has eight feet but other insects have only six. It appears they came from other planets. No matter they are staying on the wall, the ceiling or in the center of a cobweb, they seem to be staring at you and tell you “You poor creature, I will get into your dream this night.”
