I went out there armed with my work shoes, a clear plastic container with an attached plastic lid, and the same metal ruler. However, right as I was about to go out I heard the garage door opening from my parents getting home. I walked out in the garage and asked my dad if he saw the spider. He hadnt seen it so I looked onto the driveway next to the car. The rear tire had come within six inches of the spider so I propped the box sideways and prepared to nudge on it with the ruler hoping it would run inside the box. However, I lost my grip on the lid and it fell on the spider. It ran underneath the tire and I wasn't gonna try to crawl under the car after it, so I made the best of the situation.
My mom was sitting in the passenger seat of the car texting or doing something on Facebook. My dad just casually said, "Hey be careful getting out. There's a tarantula under the car." My mom just scoffed at him. I said, "No it's just one of those gigantic wolf spiders that's like 3 inches long." My mom stared at both of us and asked if we were joking. We both shook our heads and I said I was trying to catch it but it ran under the car. Anyway, she freaked out and didn't want to get out of the car and walk around in the shadows wearing sandals. My dad put the icing on the cake saying, "Well they jump too, so you better get out." My mom jumped up and stood perched on the step thing that normally seals the bottom of the passenger door freaking out and squealing. My dad and I were just being cruel and laughing at her. She finally jumped almost four feet away from the car and clopped in her sandals towards the garage. I saw another spider maybe an inch long behind our van that was in the garage. I was just like, "Oh hey, be careful for that one too." She yelled at us and yanked one of her sandals off and tried to slap it out of the garage. She missed and it ran under the van and into the shadows out of sight, so she ran up the steps into the house muttering about how mean we are.
It wasn't a total loss.
