Acrobatic Arachnid

This morning, while driving home from taking my 7 and 8-year-old girls to school, my eyes focused in on a little spider dangling from his thread inches from my face. Lucky for all of us the only turn left to make was into our driveway. With only a few glances away from the spider I managed to pull into our driveway and put the suburban into park without hitting anything. As soon as I did, however, the spider decided to decend. I'm not a bug person. With my seatbelt still secure I attempted to jump out of my seat. He was dropping fast but I was not going anywhere. I finally figured out how to undo my seatbelt and propelled myself up onto the middle console where I stayed until I had calmed down. To be on the safe side I slapped and rubbed my left side briskly until I felt satisfied that the critter was squished.