I cannot make this shit up

[mousme]

I just got a call from a woman who has been trapped in her car on the highway for 20 minutes because there is a spider in the car with her. She's so afraid of spiders that she is convinced she'll have an accident if she tries to drive with the spider in there with her.

I realise that phobias are not funny, that they are in fact very serious and potentially crippling psychiatric conditions, and that this woman probably legitimately can't do anything remotely sane like squish the spider or shoo it out of her car.

That being said, I am a bad person and I am going to hell, because damn it was funny anyway.

I had to transfer her to the SQ, who have jurisdiction over the highways, and I am quite sure that they were not nearly as sympathetic to her plight, unfortunately for her.

Comments

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

However silly it may be, I still think it's a Good Thing that she didn't drive if a spider would have freaked her out so severely as to cause an accident.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. No good would have come of it.