David: an earth-loving person who has great care and concern for pretty much all creation.
Jodi: a self-proclaimed arachnophobe with a particular aversion to spiders.
on saturday morning, Jodi saw a spider and freaked. she asked us to get rid of it (she's usually yell "kill it", but she, for the moment, was being respectful of David's wishes). instead of assisting the two of them with their conflicting feelings and with removing said spider, I decided to sit back and see what unfolded.
the situation escalated when the spider began to crawl onto Jodi's suitcase. David was trying to divert the spider with Jodi's shoe. He was yelling "don't kill it" over Jodi's shrieks.
ultimately, Jodi, creeped out and controlled by her fear alone, took matters into her own hands. in a single motion, she grabbed her shoe from David and swatted the spider to a mush while shoving David and stepping on his foot in the process. I think David was more upset about his foot than the spider.
maybe you had to be there....
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