This reminds of something that happened to Ed. One day, while I was not there of course, he found a spider in his house and stepped on it.
(I am of the let-it-be-or-at-*least*-catch-and-capture school of thinking when it comes to spiders.)
So anyway, he stepped on it and, when he lifted his foot away, there were, like, 200 baby spiders in the mama's place. I guess he popped her just as she was ready to pop.
As a side note, I love baby spiders. I love how they're perfect, working, REAL spiders, only tiny-tiny. No big heads or undeveloped motor skills. Just tiny.
He went on about how it was like a nightmare. Try to kill one thing you don't like and wind up with 200 little carbon copies of it!
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
