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Sure!! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Kater
Would I get free rent? ;) heehee.
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Nicole- that could have been me. I try to be rational about spiders but it just doesn't work.
Siegmar catches them under a glass and releases them outside: one of the reasons I need a man in my household;) We would never kill them because around here they are useful.
These days I stepped on a big nasty dead one (it was dead before I stepped) that was lying on the floor in the living room. I felt there was something under my foot, thought it was a cat toy and looked down: *jumps higher than she ever expected to jump and squeeks at high volume*:eek:
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Originally posted by Miss Meow
I was busting to use the toilet, which faces away from the spider, so sat down twisted my head sideways under my arm, to try to see its reflection in the mirror
I think you are more brave then you know...
I went to church the other night and my mom-in-law and a guy from our church was helping me get some stuff out of my car.. and the guy kept saying "is that a bug,,,,, *short pause*,, is that a bug"
i finally looked down and there was this SPIDER sitting right next to me... i nearly clawed through the roof of my car to get away screaming... they knocked the spider out of the car and kept laughing at me.. EWWWWWW...
I won't kill a spider .. or any other bug.. i make Eric *rescue* them and throw them outside.. BUT that does not give them permission to get near me!!!!!
LOL! LOL! To my knowledge no spider has been able to swim upstream in a swirling, flushing toilet, but one can't be too careful! LOL!Quote:
Originally posted by ChiRen
When they flush them down the toilet, I can't use that toilet for at least a week. lol. :p
I agree with all of you spider fearing people. My fear increases with their size I guess and I hate the ones that seem to have "fur" on their bodies the most. **shivers** The other day I was watching the Ellen (DeGeneres) show and her monolog was about laying in bed about to doze off to sleep and spying a spider on the ceiling. My gosh she covered every emotion a spider fearing person has and I was laughing hysterically. She went into all of the thoughts we all have had when seeing a spider on the ceiling, including my favorite 'what if I try to kill him and miss and he comes back with revenge on his mind.' LOL!
I am afraid of really BIG spiders, with pointy legs and big bulbous bodies. Thankfully in Wisconsin we don't get any with hair - (the only reason to like our 6 month long winter; it kills every scary bug out there). I'm no longer afraid of little "dust pideys" as we call them; the ones that are yellowy-white and like to hang around in the corners of the ceiling, and daddy long-legs don't scare me anymore either. Last night, Sammy was going nuts in the kitchen, trying to get a little spider off of the ceiling. I finally went out there, climbed up on a chair, and hoisted him up on my shoulder so he could reach the stupid thing. He reached up, swatted it, and sent it flying directly onto my face. I am so proud - I didn't scream OR wet my pants, but I did swat at my face and then shake out my hair just in case it was stuck there, since I couldn't see it on the floor. :p :rolleyes:
LOL! :D I'm not afraid of spiders in the least, but then, I haven't come across the really huge ones. However, I really don't like cockroaches or any other flat crunchy insects!! :eek: Once, I lived in a house with lots of other people - we had chickens, rabbitts etc. out in the back, and the owner brought back sacks of bread for them. Soon after, the cockroaches were all over the place. We had to empty everything out in the kitchens, when we took the fridges out, there were loads of eggs sitting on the warm pipes. In the end we got rid of them by using some blue stuff we smeared over the edges and doorsteps.
I *HATE* spiders, in fact, I dislike pretty much any sort of bug or insect... Ladybugs are cute and ok as long as they don't touch me. When I was little I used to like daddy long legs, I'd pick them up and let them crawl on me*shudder* now just thinking about spiders makes my skin crawl. I seriously feel like they are all over me right now just because I'm typing this. I think that a type of bug that I hate even more than spiders are BEETLES *eww* over here in Japan there are tons and they creap me out. I will admit to being an avid bug squisher (if they are in my home) but beetles just won't die. they're so icky *shudder* eeeew ok well now that this post is over it's time to go take a shower to wash away all of the imaginary bugs that are crawling all over me..
If Paul is home and I see a spidey on the floor I'll generally jump up onto the highest available surface-kitchen counter, computer desk, etc. and call for Paul to come squish it.... the stinker will ocassionally come at me with the tissue covered in bug parts, but thankfully he doesn't do that often:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D
I don't like spiders, never have...never will. They just give me the willies. Expecially if they're in the house. Outside is fine, just not in the house!
I am the official bug handler in my home (perhaps from 20 years of living alone????) The Es find them amusing but never get around to killing them and I'm better at it than my husband. Since I was told it is bad luck to kill a spider in the house, I used to capture them and let them loose. As we live in an older home with lots of trees I don't think I will be disturbing the future of the species by killing a few.
Now what I hate is centipedes. With all those legs they move soooo fast and are so hard to smash!
Spiders really don't scare me overall, and I enjoy seeing them. That said, I still like to know they are there and are still startled by them if one suddenly runs over me, like if I pick up a shoe in the garage and one runs over my hand, it will spook me and I'll drop the shoe :p
Up here in Minnesota, however, there are very few venomous spiders. Where I grew up in Southern Missouri, brown recluse were common, and I was more wary of spiders until I was sure of what kind they were. In that case I kept a spider book around and made sure I could identify them. I think if I lived in an area with many venomous spiders I would probably be more wary of them, simply because they are so small and easy to miss.
Black widows do kind of give me the creeps though. I watched a nature show a few years ago just on black widows and it went into detail what the poison does to a human's nervous system. Just can't help but be chilled by something so small that can be such a danger to a human, but I also feel awe over them as well. I do think Hollywood has played quite a negative role on how people view spiders, and other "creepy crawlies."
I have no desire to kill spiders. Whenever I see one of the resident little house spiders in the middle of the floor, I just give it a nudge so it runs to a safer spot. :)
Hate them Hate them!!!!
Your story was almost like mine last night. I went to the bathroom and was doing my thing when I reached over to get some TP and there he was right next to the roll. :eek: :eek:
Thank goodness, he was just as afraid of me as I was of him, he ran off somewhere.
We have a lot of banana trees around us and they have what we call a banana spider, living in them. BIG ugly guys and they can jump like no spider I've ever seen. They scare the you know what out of me and they are not afraid of people. Thats always been my hope with spiders, is they are afraid of me too, but not these guys, insteading of running away they have jumped on me. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Just thinking about them right now and i'm getting jumpy, Brandy just rubed my leg and I jumped out of my chair. So I'm off to a new subject now. LoL :D
I HATE spiders. They're so gross. I have no idea why I'm so afraid of them, we don't have ANY harmful spiders here. We don't even have ones that bite or whatever. Just little ones..yet I'm afraid of them..........They're just sooo gross
YES!!!! AND CENTIPEDES!!!!
In fact, this past weekend I was up at camp volunteering again, and when I walked onto the porch of the cabin there was a large wolf spider on the wall- I saw it and SCREACHED, jumped off the 7 flights of stairs and started crying. All the guys and my friends came running out to see what was going on- I was hysterical. Thank the Lord Catanya moved it and threw it into the woods! OH! I have so many terrifying experiences with spiders! Since they are so well camouflaged, and I walk around in high grasses/woods a lot, I run into them before I can see them. When mom and I were at a mule show in Missouri, I was trying to take pictures of the pretty wildflowers. I was focusing on the flowers so much, getting real close to them to take good pictures, I didn't notice the two HUGE Orb spiders 2 inches away from my face. When I did finally notice them I screamed, ran backwards, almost dropped the camera in a puddle and started to cry- a bunch of people came over to see what was going on. OH- ANOTHER- Fred, the wolf spider- he lives up at camp and his known for coming in your shower stall when you are taking a shower. Well, he paid me a visit this past summer. Fred is HUGE, I mean HUGE, he has to be at least the size of a tennis ball circumference wise. I was washing my hair *la la la de da da* with my eyes closed- opened my eyes- to see Fred on the wall next to me. Gee, what did I do!? Scream, run out of the stall buck nekkid, and almost went running out of the building naked but luckily my friend covered me up before I went outside to finish my fit.
I cannot stand spiders, even pictures of spiders make me cringe, and scream if I am not expecting it.
Same story for centipedes, in fact they even tend to creep me out more, since they have more legs- it's the legs that get me- they are disgusting. A couple of weeks ago I was in the basement and a centipede about 5 inches long ran out of the sink onto the floor- OH MY LORD- the fit I had! I started screaming and bawling, jumping up and down, shaking! I was screaming so hard my throat was sore for two days afterwards. My dad was outside doing yard work and he could hear me. Before he came inside, I grabbed a bottle of bleach and threw it on the centipede. Sammy killed a centipede in my bedroom, right next to my bed- had a fit over that too- I would not go inside my room until my mom cleaned it all up.
I seriously cannot handle spiders or centipedes AT ALL.
Ah! Ja! We do ma! Wolf spider. :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small
Thankfully in Wisconsin we don't get any with hair - (the only reason to like our 6 month long winter; it kills every scary bug out there).
Nope, not scared of them. I actually encouraged spiders to spin webs in my room when I lived at home. They ate the misquitos that got in thru the sump pump. :)
Now, if I'm in a situation where one might get in my hair... that gives me the willies.
I've had a few big ones catch me off guard, but in general, I'm the one that captures and releases. :)