Spider Drama

So now to episode 2 of the battle of the bugs.... Last night Ruby was staying over and it was about 3:00 am and we were just about to fall asleep when all of a sudden we heard Madeha who had just gotten in a few minutes before calling out for anyone that could hear. Ruby and I got up and went out to the living room where she was like, dude, PLEASE tell me that thing in the corner over there is a roach. Yes, she wanted it to be a roach. Because if that was a spider... [shudder]... that would mean it was a huuuuuuuge spider. So I rub the sleep out of my eyes and focus.... sure enough.... it WAS a HUUUUUUUUGE black semi-furry spider! We were all like omg, WHAT do we do. Madeha had the bright idea of chasing it out the door. Now... a) our door doesn't stay open, it swings shut so someone would have to be close enough to the door to hold it open... b) those things move so fast, there was no telling if by aggrivating its current position in the direction of the door, it would actually go that way. I said, we must kill it where it is. Oh and by this time we were both each standing on a chair about a broom and a half's length from the spider. A broom and a half b/c we couldn't quite reach the spider with the broom that Madeha was holding. Since it was in a corner, she said if she she tried to smush it there, it might not die and come running up the broom handle. (I understand greatly this fear... see blog on Debugging). So then she said i'm going to throw this piece of cloth at it. And i was like.... noooo it will come running! She threw it anyway and it pretty much sheilded the spider in the corner. Great. So then she proceeds to bang on the wall with the broom to create some sort of vibration to make the spider move. Now i'm like great, the cop that lives across from us is going to think that the girls across from him are getting mangled. Nothing was working so she moved the cloth with the broom, and sure enough now the spider started moving, and it started moving fast. Ruby is standing on the couch in the living room with just her head poking around the wall to see what we were doing. Madeha and I are screaming bloody murder as she attempts to smack the spider with the broom. I think she got it on 2nd smack! Now she is holding the broom on top of the spider... and we have no idea if it is dead, injured at LEAST, or still perfectly fine in between the bristles. So madeha says, RUBY COME OPEN THE DOOR!! And she's like no way in hell!!! Slowly she lifts the broom... and viola! The spider looks slightly crumpled. Ruby says, be careful! It could be pretending!! This is true... so we stood there on top of our chairs, and examined the spider. Ahhhh... it was definitely dead. We left the spider dead on the floor, and concluded episode 2 of the battle of the bugs!