Her: There is a huge spider in my laundry room and I'm terrified.
Her: It is sitting there daring me to come closer
(Some time later)
Her: You'd be proud. I hit the wall next to it to scare it away behind the big freezer. Of course, now it will probably go all Power Rangers on me.
(Some time later because I'm a really lousy super good friend)
Me: No it won't. You are bigger and scarier.
Her; Not after it grows to the size of a house. I was so terrified. Stood there just kind of shaking and terrified for about ten minutes (seemed much longer), was about to start crying that Hubby wasn't here to take care of it. Then I was overwhelmed by my own patheticness.
Me: LOL. You aren't pathetic. You stood up to your fear and conquered it. I'm proud of you.
Her: If you had texted back during that 10 minutes, I would have broken down and begged you to come over and take care of it.
Me: So it's a good thing that I forgot my phone downstairs. I would have told you to suck it up though.
Her: I know you wold have. Hell, you *were* telling me that - every time I thought of just calling you, I'd hear you say it.
This is clear evidence of what an asshole a good friend I am.
Me: LMAO, you did it though. The spider won't take it's revenge. They have terrible short-term memory.
Her: Hmm. Have there been studies on that?
Me: I've conducted them myself after lengthy interviews with many spiders. It goes like this:
"Mr. Spider, are you as scary as people think?"
"Who are you? Where am I? Is there a Starbucks around anywhere?"
*actual quotes from my highly scientific survey
Yeah. I should get the "Friend of the Year" award. I'll invite you to see my acceptance speech. There may be scary stuff there. Suck it up.