A mysterious visitor

One night I was going downstairs to do my homework when I saw a crawly creature.  It was big as a saucer and had eight long legs all covered with dark brown hair.  It looked very scary and threatening.  It was standing just inside the front door as if it was deciding where to go next.

I called my mum, but she was upstairs and said, "Just leave it, it's only a spider".  But when she came down she said, "Oh, that's a tarantula".  So she punched holes in the base of a 1kg margarine tub and put it over the tarantula.

I got on with my homework, but I kept imagining that I heard the margarine tub moving across the floor.  When my dad came back from SEMBEC he took the tarantula across the street to an empty plot to give it a new home.  Now whenever Benjamin plays "The Crawling Spider" on the piano I get a prickly feeling up and down my back.