OMG tessagin I'm laughing so hard I'm crying at your story! I have done a similar thing in the shower, freaking out over a wad of thread floating in the water. I have also done the opposite (and please remember, I HATE spiders and I'm petrified of them, since I was a child)... picked up a piece of "lint" off the hassock in my living room, only to have it "come alive" in my hand... yup, it was a spider. He curled up when he saw me coming (I guess they do that as a protective measure) and then decided to uncurl in my palm. Total freak-out on my part! Everybody tries to tell me that spiders are the good bugs and we should like them, but I just can't do it. Even though I know how smart they are. Stay outta my house!
