With every shopping season comes new opportunities in which to buy strange gifts for friends and family.
I don't know about you guys, but I think that a remote-controlled tarantula is, well, creepy. Eck. Nothing creeps me out more than watching how a tarantula walks. But you can buy them from National Geographic here.
To quote the catalog, "because their eight legs move separately, be prepared for screams when one scuttles realistically from beneath the table." Uh-hmmm. Just what I want with my breakfast coffee...
Realistically crawly tarantula robot: $48. Screams of terror from your loved ones: Priceless.
However, I can think of a couple of story ideas from this one...
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Given that my sibs tend to own real ones, I'll pass on the pricey fakes.
It's only funny until someone steps on that very expensive spider.
I played a similar trick on a friend's mom when I was... eight I think, but I used a non-moving plastic horsefly I'd gotten out of a gumball machine for a quarter. The response was gratifying and she backed away with this look of horror on her face rather than trying to swat it, but even if she'd managed to break off a leg or something, I wouldn't have cared much, even though a quarter was a lot more in the early 70s than it is now. [wry smile]
In this case, though, I agree with Anti-Wife that this would be a funny prank only until someone stomped (kicked, whacked) one's $48 toy. [wince]
But yeah, it does give one some funny story ideas, doesn't it? :D
Angie
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Think I'll stick with my blue lady bug that goes round 'n round and somersaults.
I once through a black plastic/rubber tarantula on my mother around the age of eight. Let's just say that I never, ever did that again.
threw. Good lord, can you believe that I had spent about two hours copy editing before I typed "through" for "threw"?
But can you train it? I mean, this toy has some very real possibilities.
You know, it could crawl on a ledge high above, just visible enough to creep people out. Or run quickly behind a counter where it couldn't be stepped on, but you still knew it was lurking there.
I'm going to check these out. I wonder about the remote controls.
I'm thinking Halloween.
(And dreaming, because I'll never spend $48 on a toy spider!)
I figured it was one of those flukes, paca. I do that sort of thing all the time. Advanced degrees do not guarantee proper grammar all the time, lol. I have an English degree, and boy do I screw up a lot.
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