Carne Seca
Well-Known Member
Last night after taking my nephew home I made some Gem Chili Soup. The air was crisp and cool so I felt a nice warm soup would be nice. I had all the ingredients and used my favorite knife for the prep work. It's a heavy blade much like a butcher's blade. It took me about an hour to prep and cook the food and then I cleaned up the kitchen, washed the dishes and placed the blade back in it's slot and went to bed.
I decided to make enchiladas from the chili soup this morning. I needed to chop some onions and grate cheese. I was having soft boiled eggs on top so I started with that and then grated the cheese. I had the chili heating on the stove. I pulled out the chopping block and grabbed the knife I used last night. When I was walking over to chopping block, holding the knife, I felt something squirming under my hand. I turned the knife over I noticed a white sac was attached to the handle of the blade. That was sitting in the palm of my hand. I took me couple of seconds before I realized what it was. A spider egg sac. And then it exploded.
Baby spiders went everywhere. Thousands of them. Crawling up and down my arm, over my chest and on my face. ON MY FACE!!!! Without thinking I threw the knife and ran. Stripping off clothes as I went. By the time I hit the bathroom door I was stark naked and screaming, OH MY GOD!!!! OHHHHH MYYY GOOOOOODDD!!!! I scrubbed myself raw. I washed and rinsed so may times that the hot water heater ran out of hot water. Picture me curled up in a ball on the shower stall floor rocking back and forth saying, "I'm in a happy place. I'm in a happy place.."
When I finally composed myself I went into my bedroom for new clothes. I checked them thoroughly for spiders. That's when I smelled something burning. I ran into the kitchen just in time to see an egg explode and cover the wall with embryo shrapnel. Fuck! I took the eggs off the burner. The smell was horrible. I grabbed the bug spray and began spraying every surface I possibly could and my clothes. I took the clothes outside and hosed them off. They're in the washer right now. I spent a good hour and a half cleaning and scrubbing the kitchen.
That's when I realized that I hadn't run across the knife I had thrown. I just scrubbed everything down and didn't remember seeing it. I started thinking about what direction it flew when I lost my shit. Toward the stove. I had to clean the stovetop because of the egg explosion and realized that there was a huge amount of chili splatter as well.
I knew where the knife was then.
I looked inside the chili pot and there it was. A small part of the handle still sticking out of the soup. With baby spiders all over it and floating in the soup.
This is how my Monday started.
I decided to make enchiladas from the chili soup this morning. I needed to chop some onions and grate cheese. I was having soft boiled eggs on top so I started with that and then grated the cheese. I had the chili heating on the stove. I pulled out the chopping block and grabbed the knife I used last night. When I was walking over to chopping block, holding the knife, I felt something squirming under my hand. I turned the knife over I noticed a white sac was attached to the handle of the blade. That was sitting in the palm of my hand. I took me couple of seconds before I realized what it was. A spider egg sac. And then it exploded.
Baby spiders went everywhere. Thousands of them. Crawling up and down my arm, over my chest and on my face. ON MY FACE!!!! Without thinking I threw the knife and ran. Stripping off clothes as I went. By the time I hit the bathroom door I was stark naked and screaming, OH MY GOD!!!! OHHHHH MYYY GOOOOOODDD!!!! I scrubbed myself raw. I washed and rinsed so may times that the hot water heater ran out of hot water. Picture me curled up in a ball on the shower stall floor rocking back and forth saying, "I'm in a happy place. I'm in a happy place.."
When I finally composed myself I went into my bedroom for new clothes. I checked them thoroughly for spiders. That's when I smelled something burning. I ran into the kitchen just in time to see an egg explode and cover the wall with embryo shrapnel. Fuck! I took the eggs off the burner. The smell was horrible. I grabbed the bug spray and began spraying every surface I possibly could and my clothes. I took the clothes outside and hosed them off. They're in the washer right now. I spent a good hour and a half cleaning and scrubbing the kitchen.
That's when I realized that I hadn't run across the knife I had thrown. I just scrubbed everything down and didn't remember seeing it. I started thinking about what direction it flew when I lost my shit. Toward the stove. I had to clean the stovetop because of the egg explosion and realized that there was a huge amount of chili splatter as well.
I knew where the knife was then.
I looked inside the chili pot and there it was. A small part of the handle still sticking out of the soup. With baby spiders all over it and floating in the soup.
This is how my Monday started.
