When Waking Up Meets Your Biggest Fear In The Bathroom

The Morning I Met My Worst Nightmare (a.k.a. The Spider Incident)

Okay, nothing sucks more than waking up early in the morning. But you know what makes it way worse? Being half asleep on the toilet and looking up… and seeing a HUGE, black, fuzzy, eight-legged monster staring right back at you. Oh yeah. A spider.
Now, spiders might not bother you and that's good, maybe you’re one of those people who can just grab a cup and gently “relocate” them. Good for you. But me? Oh, no. That thing ruined my morning before it even began. There are some things I can handle in life, but bugs ESPECIALLY spiders are not one of them.
And apparently, my boyfriend isn’t a fan either. How do I know? Because I woke him up at 3:20 in the morning to come kill it. I mean… what was I supposed to do? Leave it there and just go to work? That's the worst thing you could do because we all know that if I came home later and that spider was gone, I’d never sleep again.

(This is what I would look like if I had to kill a bug)

The Kleenex Conqueror

So Luke gets up, bleary-eyed, walks to the bathroom, and kills it — with a Kleenex. Not even a shoe! A Kleenex! Then, like nothing happened, he just crawls back into bed and falls asleep again. Meanwhile, I’m standing there wide awake, heart racing, scared to stop looking at the bathtub just in case it were to reappear from the grave.

The Only Perk: Instant Wake Up Call

If there’s one silver lining to this story, it’s that the shock woke me up faster than any cup of coffee ever could. Truth is, my fear of spiders goes way back. I’ve been terrified of them since I was a kid. In fact, there’s one moment I’ll never forget. A few years ago, I was taking a nice, relaxing bath until it was utterly ruined when I felt something tickle my arm. I looked down… and there it was. A brown recluse spider crawling up my arm.
I screamed like I was in a horror movie and swore off baths for months. Even just talking about it now gives me the heebie-jeebies. I’m convinced there’s a spider plotting in my bathtub right now, waiting for its moment.
This is a fear that's been creeping or should I say crawling for years. So yeah — if you ever hear me talking on the show about how I’m “wide awake” in the morning, just know… it probably wasn’t the coffee. It was the spider.

What's something that terrifies you or gives you the heebie-jeebies?

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