What Do You Have in Your Car?

If you happened to be in front of Boiling Springs First Baptist tonight about 7:30 and saw four people dancing around a Mustang, that would be the Johnson's!

After dinner at Wendy's, we were driving down Highway 9 when I happened to look up at the passenger side visor and then, I start (I'm trying to be calm!) telling Ron to pull over immediately. Dangling there is the biggest, blackest, pregnantest spider I have ever seen. Hovering right before me!! Ron swerves into the parking lot amid my terror and we all jump out of the car. Ron is basically blind and can't see at night anyway, I'm terrified, Ben's babbling and we finally designate Clay (he is a camping, nature experienced Boy Scout) to "take care of it". We were literally at the point of "rock-paper-scissors" to decide who got the job.

As goes our lives, Clay takes off his shoe and attempts to strike this fear-monger and.....he misses. We realize that a newspaper is in the floorboard and Clay should use his shoe to push the spider onto the newspaper and we'll let it out in the parking lot. No such luck. Down side to a Mustang? There is no light and the emergency lamp in the trunk has a blown bulb. (I should add here that there are some folks sitting at the side parking lot next to us and a car a few spaces over, the person comes out of the church gets in and leaves....no one comes to ask if we are okay or need help....at this point we'd have taken extra eyes and lights. Of course, they are probably thinking "what are these crazy people doing?"). Clay misses the spider and sees it speed across the car ceiling into the backseat. He gets in the backseat, with Ron trying to help, and starts to look. Meanwhile, Ben and I are standing outside the car swiping at our clothes, like this thing is on us.

After a few minutes, the darkness and inability to find the spider frustrate us and so we all pile back in and drive home as FAST as possible with the lights on!!!! We've left the windows down hoping she'll go look for a calmer "home" during the night. As long as it isn't in our house!