The two women sat at the table sipping cups of tea. The younger smiled eagerly, the elder frowned nervously glancing frequently at the ceiling in the furthest corner of the room.
“So, how's Dad be-”
“How are you still living with that thing?!” The elder cut in, her tone full of exasperation.
“What thing? You mean Carl, the coconut crab? He's harmless, just ignore him.”
“Ignore him? He's bigger than my Rottweiler! Can't you, I don't know, call an exterminator or something?!”
“Mom!” the younger gasped, “how can you say that? Carl and his family are welcome here!”
“Family?...Liz, how many are there??”
I don't think I have the…whatever it is you need to live with an arthropod that's 3 feet wide. I can coexist with most spiders but everyone has to draw a line somewhere!
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