Sara
12-26-2011, 11:41 PM
So I'm just copying this over from the shops facebook page for anyone that doesn't read the TCR facebook posts. Here's my :eek::eek::eek: from today. Laugh at me all you want, if I didn't want you to I wouldn't post it. I laughed after the fact.:o
"I had the best "girl" moment I've had in ages today! Tia had the day off, so I was working tarantula sales. Now, T's aren't my favorite thing, but I can generally get through it fine. I am not as knowledgeable as she is, but I know all the basics and can figure things out pretty well. I don't know where every single one likes to hide, what size every single one is, but know them in a general sense....
Had a wonderful couple buying a couple of new tarantulas today, and one of the ones they wanted to see was a sunburst something or other, I am blanking the name. I had been dealing with cute little baby slings all day and thought that one would be the same. Looking through the cage and couldn't find it... Finally pick up a piece of bark where it was and that thing proceeded to shoot out of where it was hiding and directly at me. I screamed like a little girl and jumped way back as it shot out of the deli, down the counter, and rested on the lip of the cabinet underneath. I tried to get it into a container and it charged my hand. I may have screamed again. And, of course, by this time it has grown from about 3/4th of an inch to about 6 inches, lol!!!
The gentleman that bought it ended up getting it into the cup. I've never had a customer get their own animal and felt horrible, but at that point it was him catch it or me faint while peeing my pants.
Tia, I regret to inform you, you don't get any more days off, ever again. :) "
I will say, I am pretty sure it was a Venezuelan Sun Tiger. I could be wrong, but am pretty sure that's what it was. Fast, super fast, and what we like to call "actively defensive" because that sounds so much nicer than "will bite you in your face".
"I had the best "girl" moment I've had in ages today! Tia had the day off, so I was working tarantula sales. Now, T's aren't my favorite thing, but I can generally get through it fine. I am not as knowledgeable as she is, but I know all the basics and can figure things out pretty well. I don't know where every single one likes to hide, what size every single one is, but know them in a general sense....
Had a wonderful couple buying a couple of new tarantulas today, and one of the ones they wanted to see was a sunburst something or other, I am blanking the name. I had been dealing with cute little baby slings all day and thought that one would be the same. Looking through the cage and couldn't find it... Finally pick up a piece of bark where it was and that thing proceeded to shoot out of where it was hiding and directly at me. I screamed like a little girl and jumped way back as it shot out of the deli, down the counter, and rested on the lip of the cabinet underneath. I tried to get it into a container and it charged my hand. I may have screamed again. And, of course, by this time it has grown from about 3/4th of an inch to about 6 inches, lol!!!
The gentleman that bought it ended up getting it into the cup. I've never had a customer get their own animal and felt horrible, but at that point it was him catch it or me faint while peeing my pants.
Tia, I regret to inform you, you don't get any more days off, ever again. :) "
I will say, I am pretty sure it was a Venezuelan Sun Tiger. I could be wrong, but am pretty sure that's what it was. Fast, super fast, and what we like to call "actively defensive" because that sounds so much nicer than "will bite you in your face".