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CATVILLE – We all get startled from time to time. Something as benign as a coat rack or doll can cause us to momentarily jump out of our skin if we're caught unaware by it.
When I was a kid, my uncle worked at a life science museum and was always telling us about the amazing specimens that he handled on a daily basis. He once dropped by our house with a special delivery: a big bag of freeze-dried tarantulas. Apparently, the massive spiders had been shipped to the museum by mistake and now he wanted to give them to us. My mom had no interest in a bag of tarantulas, but she couldn't compete with all seven of us kids begging to keep them.
We quickly found amazing ways to put our new acquisitions to use. You might open the fridge and there would be a tarantula on top of the yogurt. Or you'd be getting into bed and be shocked by a tarantula perched on your pillow. The most popular trick was to put them on top of the freezer door so that they'd drop down on an unsuspecting victim who needed to get into the freezer.
We all experienced a few traumatic moments with those freeze-dried spiders. Each of these tarantula encounters led to a shriek and a quick jump. Which is why this video amused me so much:
I can relate to this DoorDash driver's initial reaction. He has no idea that a cat was slinking along the path, and it obviously startles him. But this guy seems to only have one gear, because he just keeps screaming and flees the scene in terror.
I imagine that after exiting the surveillance camera's view, he leaped into his car, slammed it into reverse, and then screeched out of the driveway like he was escaping a T-rex in Jurassic Park. There's only one explanation for his reaction… he had probably never seen a cat before in his life and assumed the creature was an alien and reacted accordingly.
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