It's that time of year, when the summer merchandise is put on clearance and we enter Pumpkin Time. With Halloween a mere month away, we have begun displaying our spooky wares, including spider decor. We have these metal bases that pumpkins can rest on, with spider legs, so it looks like the pumpkin is a spider. I was impressed with this idea, and had resolved to purchase several for myself for the upcoming fall season. Spider pumpkins! How cute! For weeks, I have stared at these pumpkin holders, which by the way can also hold candles, but it was not until recently that I really saw them for the first time.
They have six legs.
A normal human brain tends to see what it expects to see, filtering out things that don't make sense, which is why when people read the the in a sentence, they usually only see one "the." I'm going to use that as the reason I never noticed our spiders were missing a few limbs.
Now, I have nothing against things that are made in China or India or anywhere else, but when a manufacturer spits out a gem like this, I have to wonder: Maybe Chinese spiders only have six legs. Or maybe they think that American spiders have six legs. Or maybe they were actually going for a pumpkin water bug. I will never know.
We also sell another style of spider base which does, in fact, have eight legs. I checked. This one, I would assume, also comes from China. It may even come from the very same provider; I don't know.
So you tell me: Why does my pumpkin spider have six legs? Or, being part pumpkin and part spider, is it enough of a mutant already?
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