Meet the Monster of Our Science Class

Halloween is just around the corner – and I’m so scared. No, not scared about ghosts and ghouls. I’m scared about a tiny fuzzy monster that lives in the back corner of our science room. The monster lives in a glass case, but has escaped already twice. One time escaping into the school cafeteria, I’d like to add. The moster is a tarantula.

Why, are you freaking out about this, you ask? First of all, the tarantula still has it’s venom inside of it. “It rarely bites,” says our science teacher casually. “Just get away from it if it rears back, that means it’s mad.” That’s real comforting.

Well, for the entire year, the tarantula plays happily in it’s cage, but around Halloween, it comes out. And it crawls over your hand if you want it to. And I’m sure it will rear back and bite me, and I might try to fling it across the room as its furry body crawls toward the table across my hand.

But I think I’m going to have it crawl over me anyway, maybe. I mean really, how many times does the option come up for a poisonous animal to scurry across your hand. Right? RIGHT? RIIGHT!? SOMEBODY SAY RIGHT!!

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