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Now I know in one of my previous posts,I mentioned zebras in the title.Well that was a line from something that I wrote not so long ago,which i may post at some stage - not sure yet.
But this one IS about a spider called Eric and his alcohol problem.
You see,the company where i work is actually 2 semi detached houses that have been renovated and made into one house.
Wooden floors,old style architecture - corrugated sheeting on the roof,the whol bit.
So now the toilet in the gents also has a separate urinal -so 2 people can use the loo at the same time if need be.
Well,I went in there yesterday,and decided to use the urinal - so there i was busy doing my business,and out from behind the flush spout crawls a spider.
Not too big,but not too small either.I think it was a button spider.They are quite common here.
So anyway.I cant get finished quick enough - I mean would you want to have your business exposed to the world being less than 6 inches away from a potentially poisonous spider - I dont think so.Then Eric - nice name for a spider - started to walk sideways.Now i know that they have 8 legs and all the rest - but I swear that he was walking sideways and being careful enough to walk around the outside of the bowl.
Does he have an alcohol problem? is that why he was walking sideways ?
I didnt stick around long enough to find out
 


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  • pusscat said on Sep 08, 2008....
    Oh CJ you are funny!!

    I love the name Eric too :-)  It was nice to wake up to have a laugh.

    What made it really funny is visualising you trying to be as fast as you can and never taking your eyes off Eric whilst performing one of nature's more delicate little rituals ha ha!
  • Lucytorial said on Sep 08, 2008....
    ONLY 6 inches??? I would have thought you should have said maybe....... "being only 3 inches from the basin" mwaa ha ha ha
     
    Sorry just kidding.  You know I love spiders, we get big bird eating spiders up here, usually found in their habitat which is my bathroom, locate on my towel just before I reach to grab it.  Saucy bastards...
     
    I would pick it up though, wee and all that... yuk!
  • secretlife said on Sep 09, 2008....
    do you name everything?  my girls name EVERYTHING!!!
  • quietone said on Sep 09, 2008....
    EEEK ..... I don't think I would have stayed long enough to name anything!  Now, I will have to look every time I "sit"..... thanks!  LOL
  • Scaramouche said on Sep 09, 2008....

    Michael Palin: Are all your pets called Eric?

    John Cleese: There's nothing so odd about that. Kemel Attaturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul.


  • skald said on Sep 09, 2008....
    lol  I bet you did not stick around to find out. It is said to be unlucky here to kill a spider but I must admit if I see one walking in the bath and it has happened. I drown them, at least flush them down. 
  • FutureGoddess said on Sep 09, 2008....
    Boris, The Spider.... (check out itunes for the song by the Who)
  • pusscat said on Sep 09, 2008....
    Who'd have thought that innocent (not so) little 'pider would have set off conversations ranging from Monty P to The Who! 

    Goes to show there are people here with excellent taste :-)
  • pusscat said on Sep 09, 2008....
    PS - every 'pider living in my house is named Seigfred.  No other reason than I like that name for a 'pider LOL!
  • lionesss said on Sep 09, 2008....
    Errrrrrr yack, spiders are horrible things, i wont kill though,, but the worse things ever are daddy legs OH MY GOD!!!
    Hey pusscat how are your little friends keeping, can you remember herbert the sider from your last home, well until harry ate him ''hahaha'' see ya later ''
    sorry about that cj ~~lionesss x
  • travelr712 said on Sep 09, 2008....
    so apparantly pee doesn't equate to budwiser to a spider?
  • wishyouwerehere said on Sep 09, 2008....
    Nice reference, Scaramouche.  Do you remember Eric the Half a Bee?  And btw - will you do the fandango?
     
    CJ this is too funny!
  • cuppajava said on Sep 09, 2008....
    Hi PC - Eric seemed the most obvious name for a spider
    Hi Lucy - well................i could have said 8 and half inches but then you wouldnt  have believed me....
    Hi Secret' - not every time - just sometimes a name will pop into my head.
    Hi Quiet' -well,I couldnt exactly run away til I had finished the purpose of my visit if you know what i mean...
    Hi Scar' - I am a huge Monty Python fan myself,and have most of their stuff on dvd.My all time fav is the Parrot Sketch............or is Ministery of Silly Walks?
    Hi Skald - I do the boiling water trick - it works every time
    Hi Future - I think I have heard that one before too
    Hi Travel - I think old eric had one too many buds before he came to visit me !!!
    Hi Wish' -  thunderbolt and lightning...............very,very frightening me.
    Maybe you should phone Galileo ?
  • Lucytorial said on Sep 09, 2008....
    He's not the saviour he's a very naughty boy!
     
    Isn't there a fabulous song by the indigo girls featuring Galileo?
     
    Galileio's head was on the block........
  • cuppajava said on Sep 10, 2008....
    He was just a poor boy and nobody loved him............?
  • travelr712 said on Sep 10, 2008....
    there's a song by queen with a poor boy, nobody loves him, galileo, and scaramouche ;-)
  • cuppajava said on Sep 10, 2008....
    I think we can hold Wishy responsible for that last one.She would like to do the fandango with scaramouche - so then i thought Galileo would get jealous,as he is just a poor boy and nobody loves him........
  • travelr712 said on Sep 10, 2008....
    ya, well, beelzabub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for meeeeeeeeeeee...
  • Scaramouche said on Sep 16, 2008....
    To sum up;

    I shall indeed do the fandango (although with whom is an open question,) and Beelzebub has more than likely put a devil aside for me and my carnal friend Eric the Half-Bee.

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