This is a minor event I suppose… but it's Halloween and there is an interesting video to accompany this story so I felt that it merited its own post. One night I came home to find my two female housemates sitting in the kitchen together. I asked them what was going on and they told me that there was a cockroach and a giant spider in the bathroom. Their plan was to keep the door closed forever. To their credit, this was actually a feasible plan because our downstairs bathroom serves primarily as a storage room and to enclose the smell of our cat's liter box.
I took a peek into the bathroom for myself. I did not see any cockroaches but I did see perhaps the biggest, hairiest, creepiest spider I have ever had had the misfortune of crossing paths with. It had presumably eaten the cockroach. At that point didn't know much, but I did know that I was certainly not about to sleep in the same house as that creature.
Some locals here would have just picked up the spider with a pair of chop sticks and thrown it into the garden and that is good for them but we chose a different path. Ignoring pleas to let the spider live, my male housemate and I each took off a shoe and crept into the bathroom together. What followed was a frenzy of crashing, yelling and breaking glass. At the end of this there were violent shoe prints on every surface of the room and a dead, mangled spider lying beneath the sink, its legs still twitching. #sorrynotsorry
BUT before all of this went down, I grabbed this footage to share with y’all <3 It doesn’t really do it justice but it should still give you the heebie-jeebies.
We buried it in our garden, said a few words and went back to our spider-free lives.
You may have heard about Indian weddings before… TL;DR, if you get invited to one, try your very best to make it. They are extremely cool. But this wedding… I need to disclaim now that this is absolutely NOT representative of what most Indian weddings are like. This is going to be extravagant. My other Indian friends in attendance would caption the obvious, saying “most Indians will never go to a wedding like this in their whole life.” But I’m not going to spend much time talking about the economic dimension of this event. We’re just going to enjoy it for what it is.