Spy-der Stakes Out

Bee Restroom

By Dottie Evans

We all know about peeping Toms.

And we’ve heard about making sheep’s eyes and hearing catcalls or wolf whistles.

Then there are the horse whisperers and the rat packers getting one’s goat.

But a hairy, brown spider hanging out by a restroom window, spying on unsuspecting Newtown Bee employees, while they answer Nature’s call? Well, that beats them all.

Last Wednesday, any unsuspecting employee who used the Ladies Room and happened to glance out an open window could not have missed locking gazes with an awfully awesome arachnid as it hung suspended upside down from the center of its web.

It was not doing anything. Just staring. But that was enough.

An alert was sounded, dogs barked, photographs were taken for posterity, and a person who came running with a whisk broom was turned away as the window was gently closed from within.

The spider’s perfect web, which had been strung overnight from an overhanging drainage gutter, remained intact. But the spider’s view had been compromised for the sake of privacy.

Even when encountering Nature, there is a time and a place. And the restroom is not it.