HUGE Ugly Spider

Mom,  I changed the photo for you.  Does this work better?

Have to share an African experience for you... last night as I was getting ready for bed I went to use the bathroom.  I was inside the bathroom and went to close the door and almost grabbed a Big, hairy, brown, SCARY spider.  This thing was HUGE.  It looked like one of those freaky ones in an Aquarium tank that you shiver at.    Much bigger than Michigan "wood" spiders as we like to call them.  The spider was nested on the exact spot that the lock would connect into the door frame.  The legs were on both sides of the door with it's middle section in the door width (if that makes sense.)

My first reaction was to slam the door but my room is right next to the bathroom and didn't want the spider falling and running into my room so I gently moved the door a bit and luckily the spider crawled on my side of the door.  Great.  I shut the door and I was inside the bathroom staring at this big hairy spider, wondering if African spiders jump at people.  My heart was racing and had it not been 11pm at night with my flat-mate sleeping I would have screamed or yelled for help.   I picked up the rug and hit the spider as hard as I could.  The spider flew into the little bucket that was holding the toilet paper next to the toilet.  I had to reach down and get all the toilet paper rolls out and then I saw him sitting on the bottom so I squished him with a roll and quickly stacked the other 4 rolls on top and pushed down as HARD as I could.  I whispered quietly, "DIE you ugly thing!"  His legs quivered outside of the roll and when I saw them stop moving I finally relaxed my grip.

That spider is still sitting dead underneath the rolls as I don't want to look at it again.  I had to go back into my room last night scared out of my mind.  I laid there nervous thinking "Now how in the heck am I going to fall asleep?!"

Ahhhhh the joys of living in Africa.