"Dad, did you know that there are spiders as big as tires?"
"Car tires?" I asked in alarm.
"Yeah!" he said.
"I've never heard of spiders that big before. Where exactly are they?" I asked with a distinct note of panic in my voice.
"They live in the desert," he said, matter-of-factly.
"Which desert?" I asked, not bothering to keep the skepticism out of my voice.I had a picture of myself riding my camel across the Saharan dunes only to encounter an arachnid the size of a truck tire waiting to snack on my flesh and that of my camel.
"The desert," he said. "You know, the hot one."Yeah, that’s what I thought. <insert eye rolling here>
- 12 October 2017
