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[turabiannights]

As some of you may know, I temporarily inherited my sister's VW Beetle when she went off to college and I moved home. I learned to drive in the Beetle, and have taken it on many wild adventures (Oakland Airport at 4am? Check.) However, the Beetle - affectionately known as Melanie Grace at our house - has always been surrounded by a particular

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[cawakening]

You MET him! FINALLY! Oh this is so exciting! The mystery has been solved! George! Excellent! Think of all the places that spider has been and how many times we have disrupted his sleeping patterns! Driving around to Oakland, in the hills, all over town! If you had followed Dave's suggestion it would have been a very bad thing!

How big is George? What does he eat do you think? I'm tempted to put little things in his web for him to snack on...like meat but I think spiders only eat raw meat...and I don't really like the idea of the spider draggin meat into his "home" and having it rot there.

I suppose the next mystery is how is he gettting enough to eat!

[frozentybalt]

Charlotte, your story just reminded me of a kind of sort of similar tale.

When I was in middle school in Brazil my brother and I and two friends were taking sailing lessons. On this particular lesson, we were racing around in a catamaran, albeit haphazardly... God knows how many people we almost killed.

About an hour into the sail, we discovered a little stowaway in the form of a lizard, or as it looks so much cooler in portuguese, largatixa. Lizards dont' rank very high on my list of favorite things and so I was all for chucking him overboard. Fortunately more sensible minds took over and he became the Boat's defacto mascot.

As we were not very experienced sailors, we ended up tipping our catamaran. Proving himself a very savvy sailor, the largatixa (we named him at the time, but I cannot recall what) latched on to my life vest, tailless, but alive.

I like to think he lived on to live a good long life by the lake after we got back.

[athenaprotegee]

why were you @ the office @ 2:30am?

[mesaknight]

George is awesome! I want to meet him.

I was taking my tent down Guatemala one morning when I noticed that there was a spider in the space between my rain fly and my window. This happens all the time, but the tricky part was that it was a type of spider I hadn't seen since I'd left Baja California. Now, the logical explanation is that they live elsewhere and I just hadn't seen them(hardly charismatic), but I'd dearly like to believe he had been chilling in my tent, somehow surviving being rolled up periodically, living off of mosquitoes fat with my blood.