Scary encounter

I always thought there are just two things that I am scared of cockroaches and being alone in the dark. There are very few who have actually witnessed my flight err…plight when I see a cockroach. I get this from Ammudi(mom) along with a lot of other things. If there ever is a hunt to look for the “highest jump an individual can do on seeing a cockroach” yes please direct them to me. There have been embarrassing situations with friends and family and unfortunately they don’t let me forget them. The newest addition to the list is my Mom –in- law and she still can’t stop laughing about it!

Well coming back to the two things I’m scared of. I realized that there is one more to the list. I was enlightened by this new fear yesterday evening. Here’s what happened. At 7.30pm I swiped out of office and headed to the parking area to take my bike and head home. It was dark. It had just stopped raining. I was in great hurry to reach home before it began to rain again. I turned the bike around and was about to start the engine when I saw it!!! This HUGE eight legged SPIDER sitting comfortably on the handle. Gosh! I can still feel it crawling somewhere close. Surprisingly I didn’t jump. I dint yell. I just kept looking at it with utter shock…for 3 seconds. Then I yelled. Of course I was still at office so I tried to keep my composure as much as possible. I called the security guy and asked him to remove the spider from my bike. Well he did that and unfortunately I didn’t see the spider on the ground anywhere. So I kept insisting to look carefully coz I was sure it was still there somewhere. But no luck. The poor guy gave up after sometime with assurances about the spider not being on the bike. So I gathered whatever courage I had left in me and started the engine switched on the headlight and let the bike run for sometime while I stood beside and watched. Still no luck. Finally I had a talk with God and asked him to ensure that the spider isn’t there. I began the 10 minute journey, which felt like 10 hours, back home.

Since I was so engrossed on seeing if the spider is still there I kept looking down and not on the road. So I missed all the road humps and had a very jumpy ride. I know I should have faith in God and trust that everything will be fine (since I had a talk with him) but God has a weird sense of humor and what if this is his “practical jokes on human beings hour” and me His joke for the day. Also in situations like these my brain will think of all the scary horror movies centered on huge ugly spiders eating human beings and torturing them. Why can’t I think of the king who was motivated by a spider to fight and win the war? I’ll never know.

I reached home safe with no sightings of the spider. I don’t know where he went and I hope I don’t see him anywhere again. Did I scare him more than he scared me?