That thing is still alive?

This morning was a traumatic one.  It started off as a normal morning of getting ready for work.  I put Caden in his car seat (at the last possible minute to leave my house), then I opened the front door and hopped in the drivers seat.  As I grabbed the handle to pull my door closed I see a spider right next to my hand.  Of course it wasn't just any spider, it was the mother of them all...a tarantula!

Those of you who know me, understand that I have a pretty intense fear of spiders (just not quite like my phobia of vomit).  It's not that i'm afraid of getting bit, or that some of them are poisonous.  Its simple the fact that they have 8 legs and it CREEPS.ME.OUT.  The bigger the spider, the more I hate them.  I may have grown up as a country girl but I will get dramatic in a hurry when I see a spider.  I don't even like looking at pictures of them.  Tarantulas are the worst!  I know they are harmless but they are huge, hairy, and they can jump. 

Anyway, I let out a scream, jump out of the car and run around outside like a crazy person feeling like they were crawling all over me.  I look back in my car and the tarantula was still there, slowly moving its hairy legs.  Oh my gross!  Now what?!?!

Only thing I knew to do was call Cody who was already at work.  This is how our conversation went....

Cody: Hello?
Lacy: I CAN'T GO TO WORK TODAY!
Cody: What? Why?
Lacy: There is a tarantula in my car.  IN MY CAR!  I almost touched it! I can't go to work because I don't know how to get it out! 
Cody: (starts laughing)...That thing is still alive????
Lacy: What did you just say?  YOU KNEW IT WAS IN THERE?.......

I'm leaving off the rest of that conversation because I'm not sure it's appropriate.  I don't get mad very often, but that sent me way past mad.  Caden and I could have had a serious accident if I were driving down the highway and spotting that thing with me.

Luckily the spider was on the inside part of my door.  I wasn't about to get close enough to it to knock it out or smash it.  So how did I get to work?  I got a water hose and flushed him out from about 15 feet away.  I didn't even care that I was getting the inside of my car all wet (Cody will be cleaning it this weekend now).

I didn't even find out how or why there was a tarantula in my car for about 5 hours.  I was too mad.  As it turns out, Cody was driving my car yesterday to work.  He saw a tarantula on the road and decided to pick it up and take it to work to scare another guy who hates them.  Yes, Cody is that guy... Once he got to work he couldn't find the spider.  So he left his windows down all day while at work thinking it would either die in the car or get out.  He never saw it again so he ASSumed one of those happened. 

I could have killed him if he weren't the father of my child.