Black & Brown

I've only encountered one Black Widow spider, and that was in Encino (CA) some years ago in our kitchen. Those bitches weave their webs incredibly fast, and the webbing is freakishly strong. As soon as I saw the red diamond on her belly, I knocked her to the ground and smashed a frying pan on top of her. Splat!

But the brown spiders...

I've been bitten by a few different brown spiders now. The bigger the spider, obviously the bigger the bite. The spider that bit me the other morning had a belly the size of a nickel. It was big. Not really sonething I would want to stomp under foot. Frying pan, yes. Foot, no. And since I'm still breathing fine, no muscle spasm, no blood, no shock, no neasua, no vomit, nothing now but a big bite on my leg, I'm just keeping the bite clean and using an ointment for spider bites to stop the itching. The venom/puss has mostly drained from my ankle so it's back down to normal size again.

I'm not sucking the venom out of my ankle. I realize some dudes are very flexible and talented that way, but that's just not my scene, sorry.

I was advised to keep hypodermics around. Smart. Thanks.

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