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Of course all the lawyers think they are God? Perhaps they are both right and the lawyers are merely dyslexic and read “Dog” backwards? You know how they have such a way with words in their mixed up world. So what blend of dog food should we feed them now that you agree?

Well no sense in feeding them science diet or any of the expensive stuff and no need to worry if the meat comes from downer cows or those with Mad Cow disease, as we do not need them anyway and may as well give them the scraps of our society. What do you think? Oh, by the way I am not joking, not one bit and if I were in charge I would make it law. Trust me! Vote for Lance.

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I admit I have no official diagnosis. It’s not as though I went to the doctor one day with strange spider-fearing symptoms and she said, “I’m sorry, Amy, but you have arachnophobia.” And yet there is no doubt in my mind that I fear spiders.

Phobias are like that. I understand, intellectually, that in the vast untamed wilds of Albany, New York, I will likely never encounter any spider that could actually harm me. But phobia-fear is not about logic or rationale. It’s about freaking out.

I know, I know…spiders are wonderful critters that eat yucky flies; spin lovely, mysterious webs and save poor, doomed piglets named Wilbur from untimely demises. But put one on my arm and I’ll morph instantaneously into a whirling dervish and blow out your eardrums with bizarre, multi-pitched half-screams reserved for just such an emergency. Then, after the spider has been flung from my arm, we’re talking 30 minutes of recovery time that involves checking the rest of my body thoroughly for any other possible hidden spider, shaking myself like a dog to dislodge said hidden spider, and scanning the immediate area in an intense paranoia that slowly wanes along with my elevated heart rate and blood pressure.

I spent much of my childhood and adolescence in the tireless pursuit and destruction of spiders. I have no traumatic spider-centric event on which to blame my phobia; it was simply always present. The very idea of the spider…so many different shapes, sizes, behaviors! Teeny brownish ones that crouch suspiciously in corners. Delicate gray ones that crawl with illicit purpose up walls. And worst of all - squat, black ones that jump without warning!

I didn’t mind them so much if they were outside and not too close - but a spider in the house was entirely unacceptable. There was no stay of execution for these hapless arachnids.

Ah, but the means of execution was a problem worthy of the great thinkers of our time. Once I spotted a spider, I of course could not APPROACH it (unless, by some blessed miracle, I found one on the floor and had great big boots on, in which case I would stomp on it heartily). Close proximity was dangerous and foolhardy.

Through necessity I became a brilliant strategist. Usually the spider would be planning its evil in an upper corner of the room - too high up to reach, even if I wanted to. Knock it down with a broom? No, that presented the possibility of its escape - or worse, falling on me. I would ball myself up on the end of the bed, staring it down, thinking…planning.

Finally a breakthrough. HAIRSPRAY! Being an adolescent of the 80s, I of course had plenty. And my technique seemed foolproof. Spray the spider from a safe distance and quickly retreat even farther away. The hairspray would paralyze the spider, making it fall and giving no chance of escape. And oh, it worked, all right. With great streaming streaks of hairspray marking the walls and ceiling. Once I used a lighter with the hairspray and actually torched a spider into oblivion.

Needless to say, my immaculate mother was NOT a happy woman.

Speaking of my mother: Why didn’t I simply yell for mom or dad to come and do the dirty deed? I tried, but to no avail. My mother had no patience for my phobia.

“Spiders aren’t hurting anyone,” she’d say with logic and certainty. “Just leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone.”

Yes, alone. No big brother or sister (or little one either, for that matter) to help. A father who may have helped but was in his own apartment since the divorce. A battle fought solo.

One day when I was 16, my worst fears came to fruition. I was in the shower with my head tipped back into the water to wash my hair. I opened my eyes for a moment and what I saw nearly made me lose the contents of my bladder. There was a spider traveling slowly but directly down on its little invisible Batman-wire RIGHT ABOVE MY HEAD.

My mother took the stairs three at a time when she heard the screams. Amy has fallen, she’s broken bones, bleeding on the floor, stabbed by an intruder!

When she flew into the bathroom she found me wrapped in a towel, tears streaming from my face, blubbering and shaking and doing the willie dance.

“WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT?!” she yelled.

My answer? A point to the shower stall, water still running. “A SPIIIIIIIIDER!” I wailed.

When I moved out two years later to attend college 90 miles away, I can’t say she cried a whole lot.

I always wanted to assuage my phobia, really I did. I’d heard somewhere that immersion is useful. You know, if you’re afraid of the water, jump right in - that kind of thing. But the idea of deliberately placing a spider on my person was out of the question. I worked for a pet store during summer break in college and thought perhaps I’d TOUCH their resident tarantula. Nope. No go. And yet I’d literally wear a baby ball python snake around my neck all day as though it were a necklace. No problemo. Gathering crickets from their tank to feed customers’ reptiles wasn’t easy (they’re pretty creepy-crawly too), but that’s another story.

I even had a car that seemed to present itself happily as a haven for wanton spiders. Constantly I’d find them setting up residence on the inside of the windshield. I had two or three near-death experiences while driving, trapped in the car with the object of my greatest fear. I seriously considered abandoning the car altogether one day when a spider crawled out of sight behind the dashboard. With all the sense of humor I could muster, I named this car Charlotte. Last year, I gave Charlotte away for a song and moved on to a (knock on wood) spider free vehicle I quickly named Samantha.

I did manage to get to the point where I could gather up half a roll or so of carefully wadded toilet paper, reaching my arm out as far as possible to mush the spider into the tissue and drop it lightning-fast into the toilet, flushing it to a watery grave. This technique got me through most of college without serious incident, though I still yearned for a partner in crime whom I could pay a buck or two to ‘rub off’ the offending spider.

Then came my after-college roommate and best friend, Gina.

Gina, Buddhist, friend of all creatures…including spiders. This, of course, presented a problem. I would scream spider and she would come running, but she would not kill.

“I’ll catch it and put it outside,” she offered.

Okay, fine. But often the quick little bugger would jump off the paper trap she’d fashioned and escape. And though I would retreat to a far room during this operation, she’d come in sheepishly and admit that the eviction was unsuccessful. Thus the liar clause was born.

“If you lose the spider, you have to tell me you got it outside,” I said demandingly, “and you have to sound convincing.”

To this day I have no idea how many of those spiders were actually evacuated from our apartment. I only know that my blessed mind was kind enough to believe the lies that I myself had created.

My sweet cat Sugar is nestled in my lap as I type this. Are there those who fear cats as I fear spiders? Is someone typing an article entitled “Crouching cats, hidden litter box” as they stroke their pet spider? I shudder to think of it.

Now I am married and living in our first house. My husband, just my luck, is another spider-lover. (Why all these defenders of spiders?) So far I’ve killed just two spiders here - not bad considering the house is 50 years old and comes complete with a basement, the traditional habitat for spiders of all shapes and sizes.

But I still have my moments. While setting up the finished portion of our basement for a surprise party, I saw the shadow of a spider in the corner. It was HUGE…but then, maybe the light was just making it LOOK huge. Gosh, where WAS it? I turned different lights off and on to try to determine which one caused the shadow. I cautiously peered around corners and behind fixtures, but to no avail. The shadow didn’t move at all and would not go away. Finally, I took down a container of plastic cups from the shelf - and lo and behold, the shadow disappeared. I put the cups back on the counter. The shadow came back. The shadow wasn’t cast by a spider at all, but rather the tuft of plastic gathered at the top of the cups container. Nobody witnessed this, so I relate this incident at the risk of being ridiculed mercilessly.

I know, however, that it’s a small price to pay to give a voice to the freedom fighters. Arachnophobics everywhere are living in fear of the eight-legged ones. The willies are alive and well, my friends. We need to join forces against the enemy! We need to gather people to our cause!

We need some serious therapy.

Amy Wink Krebs is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/
which is a site for Creative Writing. She is a freelance writer and eternal optimist living in upstate New York with one husband, one son, one cat, and three fish.

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“What’s the difference between a crazy man who kills you and one who is not crazy (?) I would think they both are crazy, or both are not. Isn’t killing without motive, simply against our values?” said Troy to his Psychologist.

The good doctor looked at Troy, smiled, and laughed a little, “You been watching them courtroom battles haven’t you?” Troy smiled.

“Well, it’s simply documentation,” commented the good Doctor.

“Do I have good documentation,” replied Troy.

“I think you are thinking about suicide my good friend,” commented the doctor, adding “…please tell me about your week. You know what you got to do so get it out, off those rounded shoulders of yours, so you can let go, go forward in life, smell the roses again. My job son is to bring you back, back, back to being a healthy person.”

“Say Doc,” asked Troy, “I wish I had more friends to talk to, and then I wouldn’t have to see you. Spend all this money so someone will listen to me. Do you believe doctors are simply good listeners?”

“Troy, get back into telling me about your week, you are avoiding the real issues. I will feed you back your distortions, generalizations, your incomplete white lies so you can look at the real issues,” said the doctor with a slight slant towards irritation.

“Maybe all I need is a good listener; do you know where I can find one? Maybe I do not need an interpreter, I’m not a Picasso you know,” replied Troy.

“Oh, that is quite a good analogy my friend, quite good, quite good, but you are avoiding again, yes indeed, avoiding the real issue!” exclaimed the doctor.

“Well doc, if you must know, I have been a little mixed up lately; things have been somewhat confusing this week for me. First, I went running around trying to find a camera, a Browne camera; like my mother first bought me in the l950’s. I know my childhood is coming up. But you know, you know I like taking pictures, it relaxes me.

My next stop was Tuesday, that last one was Monday (’I know’, commented the doctor) the Browne that is. As I was saying, going to say, got to say, I had a gun in my hand in my old house where I grew up, where my grandfather and mother and my brother lived with me years ago. I shot all the rounds in the gun, except three didn’t go off. I took out all the bullets then, to include the ones that didn’t go off: the bullets and shells that is. But I put one back in, I think that it is the one you called the suicide bullet.” The Doctor shook his head in agreement, and said ‘continue.’

Then on Wednesday, I found myself on top of that house again, and I had to mend a big hole in the roof, but in checking it outyou see I had bought the house, I do own many properties you know, and they all bring me headaches, but they bring me money alsoI found myself going through the roof down onto the kitchen creating a second hole. I think you would say doc, I am having distress with the whole show of reality, and that is what can happen, will happen, in such cases; and simply look forward to more things like that happening, thus, you get more stressed out, you’re in the wrong businessthis is what I think I should tell my second self. You know, all that kind of stuff and garbage.” Again the doctor shook his head in agreement, and said ‘continue’.

“Well, then it was Thursday, I found out my grandfather was richer then I knew, and I was brought to this warehouse he owned. I was given a tour around the place and they had all these distorted animals, as if they were breeding them as hybrids. One got to me doc, but I think it is the whole gamut of events, so, the world I live in now, and sometimes the demon world it seems like, it all got to me. Something else I remember now that we are talking, that I am talking; my old female boss’ daughter was there. She was working for my grandfather; as if it was a conspiracy against me, gathering information to tell him to fire me.” The doctor’s eyebrows went up, and said, ‘good, continue.’

“But doc, can’t we look at this a little deeper. Here are my bosses…”

“I said continue Troy!”

“Well, doc, we’re up to Friday,” Troy looked at the doctor waiting for an answer. Put his hand on his head,

“Can we not have a dialogue instead of this one man conversation?”

Replied the Doctor with discontent, “If you think I am going to pay you for listening to me you are crazy.”

Having said that Troy continued: “Well as I was saying, I’m at Friday and I find myself a little mixed up, and tired, fatigued if you will. It keeps coming back in my mind, everything, so many doors, and meetings,” the doctor starts to write this down something, “and I just can’t figure out what doors, and who the introduction is intended for.”

Commented the doctor, “It is my doors, and I am the person you are producing the introduction for. But really it is not an introduction, since we do not have a theme, plot or ending.”

“But I do have an ending, and theme, I just haven’t got to them yetwith my story here. You know, when you read a book, it’s got its insertions you never expect, and you must read the whole book.”

“Mr. Burroghs are you the doctor now!” said the doctor with a heightened voice.

“Sorry sir, I mean doc.”

“Then continue Mr. Burroghs,” added the doctor.

“Well, I’m at Saturday now. I don’t know where I’m at, I forgot. You know doc I don’t really want to continue with Saturday, Sunday, Friday or this Monday. I just want to put the garbage under the rock and leave it there for the worms.”

“No, you must let the worms come out. Leave the rock where it is. If you must, skip to Monday, and let me know how you feel now…so do it,” moaned the doctor with a deep release of air from his chest.

Troy didn’t say a word, mimicked the doctor with a deep sigh release from his chest, and simply pulled out his handgun, .357 Magnum, pointed it at the doctor and shotbut it wasn’t loaded of course, the doctor was trying to find his pad, where he wrote out his bills. The doctor never looked up at Troy knowing what was happening he was too busy writing. Then Troy simply stood up, walked out of the office, it was close to lunchtime and the secretary was gone. He left the handgun, with a note on his desk (paid in full), and went home for a good days sleep.

3-2002/Revised 12/29/2005;modified 2/22/06

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