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[scooby0048]

The wife and I were staying in a small cabin in AZ once. One night she started screaming and I shot out of bed like I a bullet because I thought someone was trying to strangle me. My wife was trying to climb over me to get away from a Huntsman spider on her lamb.

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I didn't sleep the rest of the night because she kept twitching thinking something was on her.

Totally relatable!

No way the stuff I tell you all about is real right? Well it all is, so here we go with another Scooby story.

I was in my 3rd week of the police academy, my 3rd week of living in Arizona from Massachusetts, and it was the 1st time I pulled "fire watch" as a police recruit. Already been in the military so not really green at this whole boot camp type of setting but whatever.
Anyways, doing my little job of being kept awake, walking around the academy acting like I was really deterring a fire from starting, or actually being able to alert the recruits faster than the multi-million dollar fire suppression and alert system the academy had installed, I was doing my part. It was like 230am and I was walking by the admin building. To get to the other side of the courtyard, I had to walk under this arched trellis that had some kind of flowers growing all over it.
Not being known for my graceful and well balanced gait, I bumped into this ridiculous architectural failure of a rose bush and got some of the thorns stuck in me. When I bent over to dislodge the thorns from my leg and arm, I felt something hit me in the back of the neck and slide down between the uniform shirt and my t-shirt.
I thought it was one of the rose buds that had come loose from my ballet into the trellis. I grabbed the "flower ball" and it started crawling in my hand, I immediately screamed like a prepubescent school girl and flailed around like that guy in Home Alone and threw the "flower" to the ground. After I regained some composure, I saw that this supposed flower was actually a Tarantula (found in most of Arizona) and it was about the size of a Big Mac.
The scream I let out would have been effective in waking the academy if there was a fire but that was not the case. Several instructors woke up since they slept in the admin section of the campus and I had some explaining to do. Unfortunately for the spider, he did not survive the throw down but at least I had him for proof as to why the trellis was damaged and I was waking everyone up. Took me a bit to live that one down.

 

[542thruNthru]

Totally relatable!

No way the stuff I tell you all about is real right? Well it all is, so here we go with another Scooby story.

I was in my 3rd week of the police academy, my 3rd week of living in Arizona from Massachusetts, and it was the 1st time I pulled "fire watch" as a police recruit. Already been in the military so not really green at this whole boot camp type of setting but whatever.
Anyways, doing my little job of being kept awake, walking around the academy acting like I was really deterring a fire from starting, or actually being able to alert the recruits faster than the multi-million dollar fire suppression and alert system the academy had installed, I was doing my part. It was like 230am and I was walking by the admin building. To get to the other side of the courtyard, I had to walk under this arched trellis that had some kind of flowers growing all over it.
Not being known for my graceful and well balanced gait, I bumped into this ridiculous architectural failure of a rose bush and got some of the thorns stuck in me. When I bent over to dislodge the thorns from my leg and arm, I felt something hit me in the back of the neck and slide down between the uniform shirt and my t-shirt.
I thought it was one of the rose buds that had come loose from my ballet into the trellis. I grabbed the "flower ball" and it started crawling in my hand, I immediately screamed like a prepubescent school girl and flailed around like that guy in Home Alone and threw the "flower" to the ground. After I regained some composure, I saw that this supposed flower was actually a Tarantula (found in most of Arizona) and it was about the size of a Big Mac.
The scream I let out would have been effective in waking the academy if there was a fire but that was not the case. Several instructors woke up since they slept in the admin section of the campus and I had some explaining to do. Unfortunately for the spider, he did not survive the throw down but at least I had him for proof as to why the trellis was damaged and I was waking everyone up. Took me a bit to live that one down.

I'm pretty sure I would have fertilized those flowers with over flow from ting my pants!

 

[Brownslave688]

Totally relatable!

No way the stuff I tell you all about is real right? Well it all is, so here we go with another Scooby story.

I was in my 3rd week of the police academy, my 3rd week of living in Arizona from Massachusetts, and it was the 1st time I pulled "fire watch" as a police recruit. Already been in the military so not really green at this whole boot camp type of setting but whatever.
Anyways, doing my little job of being kept awake, walking around the academy acting like I was really deterring a fire from starting, or actually being able to alert the recruits faster than the multi-million dollar fire suppression and alert system the academy had installed, I was doing my part. It was like 230am and I was walking by the admin building. To get to the other side of the courtyard, I had to walk under this arched trellis that had some kind of flowers growing all over it.
Not being known for my graceful and well balanced gait, I bumped into this ridiculous architectural failure of a rose bush and got some of the thorns stuck in me. When I bent over to dislodge the thorns from my leg and arm, I felt something hit me in the back of the neck and slide down between the uniform shirt and my t-shirt.
I thought it was one of the rose buds that had come loose from my ballet into the trellis. I grabbed the "flower ball" and it started crawling in my hand, I immediately screamed like a prepubescent school girl and flailed around like that guy in Home Alone and threw the "flower" to the ground. After I regained some composure, I saw that this supposed flower was actually a Tarantula (found in most of Arizona) and it was about the size of a Big Mac.
The scream I let out would have been effective in waking the academy if there was a fire but that was not the case. Several instructors woke up since they slept in the admin section of the campus and I had some explaining to do. Unfortunately for the spider, he did not survive the throw down but at least I had him for proof as to why the trellis was damaged and I was waking everyone up. Took me a bit to live that one down.

I'm pretty sure I would have fertilized those flowers with over flow from ting my pants!

 

[542thruNthru]

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Maybe you should have figured that out before you had two kids. Though I'm happy you're comfortable coming out to us.

 

[silverbullet2893]

@Brownslave688 lmfao. The gar hole scum of the earth town east of moms is out of water. “Worlds best” engineers don’t know where the leak is to fix it according to my buddy who works for the city. They quit pumping water from the lake.

 

[Brownslave688]

@Brownslave688 lmfao. The gar hole scum of the earth town east of moms is out of water. “Worlds best” engineers don’t know where the leak is to fix it according to my buddy who works for the city. They quit pumping water from the lake.

Good lord that is ummmm not good

 

[Brownslave688]

@Brownslave688 lmfao. The gar hole scum of the earth town east of moms is out of water. “Worlds best” engineers don’t know where the leak is to fix it according to my buddy who works for the city. They quit pumping water from the lake.

As if there’s not enough water everywhere....

 

[silverbullet2893]

Good lord that is ummmm not good

Hate that place. Absolute cesspool.

 

[scooby0048]

@Brownslave688

I missed a bunch while on vacation. Where did she get the baseball signage? Homemade or bought? I really like it!

 

[Brownslave688]

@Brownslave688

I missed a bunch while on vacation. Where did she get the baseball signage? Homemade or bought? I really like it!

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Hobby lobby. It’s a coat hanger

 

[Wally]

Hate that place. Absolute cesspool.

Cleveland?

 

[Wally]

Hate that place. Absolute cesspool.

Flyers home game?

 

[Operational needs]

Thanks.

Yeah maybe June will bring you some flowers

As if there’s not enough water everywhere....

Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.

 

[Brownslave688]

Water, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.

Got home from the hospital and 90% sure our a/c is out

 

[542thruNthru]

Got home from the hospital and 90% sure our a/c is out

You have my luck. Got home from the hospital with my son and the damn dog got out. Thank God a neighbor up the street knew him and grabbed him.

Have fun tonight.

 

[MyTripisCut]

You have my luck. Got home from the hospital with my son and the damn dog got out. Thank God a neighbor up the street knew him and grabbed him.

Have fun tonight.

I’ll never forget the first night home with twins. Wife was down and out from cesarean. All by myself with two babies. Never ing forget it.

 

[Brownslave688]

You have my luck. Got home from the hospital with my son and the damn dog got out. Thank God a neighbor up the street knew him and grabbed him.

Have fun tonight.

It’s not terrible. It’s been gradually blowing out warmer and warmer air the last few weeks. I’ve been bitching that it takes too long to get cool. We have a nest and I leave it off all day long. The wife just thought I like it too cold. Come home today and it’s telling me it’s gonna take like 4 hours to go from 73 to 70. I think it’s shot

 

[burrheadd]

It’s not terrible. It’s been gradually blowing out warmer and warmer air the last few weeks. I’ve been bitching that it takes too long to get cool. We have a nest and I leave it off all day long. The wife just thought I like it too cold. Come home today and it’s telling me it’s gonna take like 4 hours to go from 73 to 70. I think it’s shot

Might just need a shot of Freon

 

[Brownslave688]

I’ll never forget the first night home with twins. Wife was down and out from cesarean. All by myself with two babies. Never ing forget it.

The first night in the hospital with Ava the wife’s sister stayed with her and I went home and slept.

They said Ava cried for like 7 hours straight lol

 

[Brownslave688]

Might just need a shot of Freon

Yeah I mean I’m not sure we need a whole need system but something needs done.