ALL MOTHER NATURE'S CHILDREN
After my routine night pongfu session, as I walked down the stairway to
the living room, I saw a long-legged, small-body spider rushing to hide
himself below the protrusion of the top step. Since any spider
found in the house gets the capital punishment as far as my wife and
Cody, our schnauzer, go, I needed to chase him pass the doorway
for three feet to get him out of the house.
But the spider would
only hide deeper into the crevice when I tried to wave him to move
toward the door. So I took a 3-foot long stick and physically
push him out the hiding. But he still tried to hide from one spot
to another, trying best not to expose himself in the open. When I
tried harder, he simply moved away from the door and down to the next
step. It seemed that he knew that inside the house is where he
wanted to be and the stick is enemy, since it kept coming after
him. Whenever I got him cornered, he would only climb over the
stick and run away from it as it chased him.
So I used a little
patience and put the stick close to him in a way that he would
eventually
move toward the stick. And at that moment, I would actually move
the stick away instead of toward him. Sure enough the spider
landed on the stick long enough for me to carry him toward the
door.
But it didnt take long for him to figure out that he was loosing ground
to me. So he jumped off the stick midway before we reached the
door. This time I got a little rough in cornering him, causing
him to be scared enough to submit himself a little more readily to the
stick.
As he got on the stick and I just about carried him out
the door, he made a last
very spidy thing. He must figured if he drop down in the midair
with a spider thread, then I would not be able to reach him with the
stick. He had me outwitted for a split second, until I raised the
stick faster than he could do the threading down trick. The
spider got
out of the house on a flying trapeze.