Rachel: “we need tongs”
Me: “why so you can pick up spiders??”
Rachel: “yeah!”
Me: “No.
Rachel: “Or we need Josh who will take care of the bugs I trap under cups then tape to the wall. Kerrie is getting annoyed at all of the cups that a re taped to the wal…It’s VERY warm in here, i need some air….I’m scared of the back porch, I have to use the front door…” “AHH there’s a bug out here….I need a broom to sweep it away. We need to vacuum, everything on the floor looks like a bug. The dustbuster!!! wait what if it comes alive in there and crawls out, I have to make sure its dead. ugh the leg, the leg is still on the wall…”
So Rachel is deathly afraid of bugs. While this is a common fear amongst individuals, hers is a tad irrational.
Me: “Rachel why are you so afraid of bugs?”
Rachel: “I had a dream once I was sleeping on the lower part of a bunk bed (maybe this is real!) I woke up and my parents were standing in the doorway of my old bedroom and I looked up because i just woke up and there were a bunch of bugs on my pillow where my head was!!!!” (that was definitely paraphrased because that story was WAY longer…I cut out the unnecessary information”
Me: “That would be pretty traumatizing…”
Rachel: “I know!!! I’m pretty sure this is in the same time frame when I had a dream that I was a rescue ranger…”
This is my best friend. Life is never boring for long, thats for sure…
