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| "AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HUMOR"TM
SHOWCASE
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| August/September
2005 Contest Results |
"The Garden
Spider"
By Cindy Dwyer, Guilford, CT
Honorable Mention, August/September 2005
Any mother of an eight-year-old boy can tell you that whenever he runs into the kitchen with a plastic bucket and shouts, “Hey, Mom! Look what I
found!”, you are probably not going to want whatever is in the bucket to get loose in the house.
After shooing him back outside, I took a tentative look into the bucket, prepared for something to jump, crawl or slither out at me.
Even expecting the worst, I couldn’t help but shriek and jump back when I saw the spider.
It was huge, with long, black and brown legs –- the kind that would definitely make a snapping noise if stepped on. The body was black with yellow designs on it. And, like I suspect all spiders do, it seemed to stare at me knowing
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