Quote Originally Posted by Running Mommy
That reminds me Trekhawk... Last spring I took my son mtn biking on a trail we had never been on before. He's mr. expert mtn biker like his dad, and I'm weenie *stop and walk the bike over every wash mom*, so I told him not to go to far ahead of me. I mean we were in the middle of the desert w/ not another soul to be seen... So of course he does end up taking off on me- he's 8... So I finally catch up to him and he says "mom I just saw a Coyote" well I kind of freaked out because at the time I'd never had a coyote encounter before, so off I went on a motherly barrage of "that's why I told you not to take off on me! Do you want to be eaten?!".. So I scared the kid half to death and he refused to ride that trail for a very long time! Finally Tony was able to get him back out there. But boy did I hear it from Tony!
"Did you have to scare the kid half to death?! Jeez!!"...
LOL that sounds like me. I kept telling my kids when we were hiking stay close in case of Cougars, Bears etc and my husband said I dont know about them but you have scared me half to death.

Love the spider story too. Im trying to visualize that mmm wont share that one with DH he hates spiders.