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My mom just killed one of those huge-ass spiders that’s right about the size of my palm. what she doesn’t know is…

she’s basically making more problems for herself by apparently eliminating one problem which is the spider. The thing is, she killed a spider that’s big. We humans can only kill things that are smaller than us by ourselves but technically speaking, we are only designed to kill stuff smaller than us. I’m not saying that we can’t kill an elephant — because we can, and this is not just ignoring that part in history about long rifles, african guides, and pith hats because we killed mammoths with spears and shit. Likewise, a spider like that is not designed to hurt me unless it’s poisonous in which case it should either 1) be of colors so damn fucking bright I’d use that in an 80’s playboy color scheme or 2) be a tarantula — which it’s not. 

Judging from its long legs i can figure out that it was made more for chasing and running its prey down and though it would have some venom, it wouldn’t be potent enough to kill me — which leaves the poison out because poison is just not in his arsenal for humans. It was also brown in color so the poison thing is out of the question. Those being said, it is also not a tarantula. Which brings me to why my mom is making more problems for her self.

Our house has lots of lizards. These lizards have been crapping all over the place (well, not all over but you know what I mean) and my mom is basically fed up about it. It gets pretty annoying as well for me. The past few weeks, I have noticed less and less of these lizard crap and apparently, the spider was why. A spider that big is big enough to kill lizards and the lizards are not big or strong enough to kill this spider — at least from their biting capabilities. Naturally, for so long as the spider was there, lizards won’t be …so would the lizard shit not be there. 

In keeping a spider there to hunt down annoying prey, like a dog keeping the neighborhood cats away from shitting all over our backyard, the spider is actually doing us a favor. The spider will hunt down and kill all the things you don’t want until he can’t hunt down anything else because presumably he has either scared them away or killed and ate them all. So because the spider was at the top of that food chain it could keep the lizard population down which means less lizard crap for all of us but nah man, mom put it in a jar and gassed that shit. 

EDIT: this is basically what he looked like 

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