Are you scared of spiders?

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I don't mind spiders. As for roaches, yuck, but I'm not afraid of them either. The one bug I absolutely cannot stand whatsoever is a slug. I would rather be stung by a bee 20 times than to even see a slug, they make me want to throw-up.

[ChrisH]

Originally posted by K9soul
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 ......

.....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.....

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.

Thanks, Jessica, you've said it all for me!

Chris

[captain]

Hi, it is the "deadly" Spider here …. And I think it is time for MY side of the story ……..

Well, for the past few days it has been mighty cold in Melbourne, and just the other day it started to rain. RAIN!!! We have not had rain for quite awhile, so I had to find myself a sheltered spot.

Now the lovely house I am currently living near has a PINK kitchen ……. Quite ALARMING actually!!! I mean really, who has a PINK kitchen in this day and age? ……… BUT I digress ….

I found this FANTASTIC spot, between a window and the fly screen of this not often used room in the house. People only occasionally enter, and not for long periods of time. Generally, the light is on for a short time, so a spider guy can get some good rest, which is what I was doing ….
WHEN all of a sudden the light came on, and a woman doing some strange acrobatics entered the room. She was doing this weird under the arm gymnastics ………. And had a look of horror on her face
(HEY LADY, try seeing yourself from my angle!!!! – pants around your knees!! – there is horror for you!!)

ANYWAY, wouldn’t you know it, she started towards me with this HUGE box of something, and was tapping on the screen. I clung on for dear life ……….. HELLO, LADY – you do realise I am on the OUTSIDE of the screen and could fall, injuring one of my 8 legs???

Well, she would not go away, so I eventually hightailed to the outside ………. And SHE CLOSED THE WINDOW. HOW CRUEL is this woman???? It is COLD out here ……….

But never fear, spiders are resilient ………….. and I have REVENGE on my mind. YUP, Ellen DeG was right, we can be vindictive ………..

CYA
Spider Guy

[catnapper]

YES!!! I am squeemish about anything buggish. Spiders, flies, moths, you name it. For some reason, my feline fellas love all of them.

I hate this one type of bug that has been haunting me for nearly a year - ever since my boss found a ton of them in HIS car... they must have followed mew home. Anyway, these bugs (whatever they are) fascinate the cats and when I squash them, their blood is the awful bluish green (yech) Hubby just catches them and releases them outside, and I say "kill the stinker because I KNOW it'll find its way back into my house!" One time I pulled out a drawer in jewlry box and one was hiding in there! Freaked me out... they are everywhere and anywhere and out to scare the lights out of me!

[Dogz]

LOL, thank you, Spider Guy. I will remember that next time I start tapping on the window.

Originally posted by Kfamr
Sometimes!

I don't know why.. sometimes I am.. sometimes i'm not.

Same here. Sometimes I will just move them, and sometimes I will say, "Oh my doG."

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by captain

Hi, it is the "deadly" Spider here …. And I think it is time for MY side of the story ……..

Well, for the past few days it has been mighty cold in Melbourne, and just the other day it started to rain. RAIN!!! We have not had rain for quite awhile, so I had to find myself a sheltered spot.

Now the lovely house I am currently living near has a PINK kitchen ……. Quite ALARMING actually!!! I mean really, who has a PINK kitchen in this day and age? ……… BUT I digress ….

I found this FANTASTIC spot, between a window and the fly screen of this not often used room in the house. People only occasionally enter, and not for long periods of time. Generally, the light is on for a short time, so a spider guy can get some good rest, which is what I was doing ….
WHEN all of a sudden the light came on, and a woman doing some strange acrobatics entered the room. She was doing this weird under the arm gymnastics ………. And had a look of horror on her face
(HEY LADY, try seeing yourself from my angle!!!! – pants around your knees!! – there is horror for you!!)

ANYWAY, wouldn’t you know it, she started towards me with this HUGE box of something, and was tapping on the screen. I clung on for dear life ……….. HELLO, LADY – you do realise I am on the OUTSIDE of the screen and could fall, injuring one of my 8 legs???

Well, she would not go away, so I eventually hightailed to the outside ………. And SHE CLOSED THE WINDOW. HOW CRUEL is this woman???? It is COLD out here ……….

But never fear, spiders are resilient ………….. and I have REVENGE on my mind. YUP, Ellen DeG was right, we can be vindictive ………..

CYA
Spider Guy

He he he!

Another story from the spider side.........

Hello! I am a spider from the US! I was born in a little spider web, in the corner of the ceiling in some girl called *Popcornbird*'s room. I lived here peacefully all my short life.........she never noticed me. I witnessed the cruel inhumane killings of my family. My siblings were squished before my eyes, my dad flushed, and my mom sucked by this horrible machine, known to humans, as the vacuum. Now I sit here alone, huddled in the corner, wondering what will be my fate. I am tiny now, but when I grow up, some human will certainly see me and bring my life to an end. I fear that day. I fail to understand why the humans are so very much afraid of me. They are, perhaps, 1000 times larger than I am. When I look down at them, it is like I am looking at an enormous, gigantic creature, that can crush me in half a second. I look at them, and they look back, and scream and run away. I am so little..........why are they so afraid?? I know that my life is limited.........that one day, I was meet my fate, and be squished or flushed or vacuumed. But I shall remain strong. I shall refuse to leave this house. I will stand up for my rights........even if it means losing my life.

Sincerely,
Squeaky Spider

Ps. Attached is a picture of my beautiful RB spider mom, who was sucked by a vacuum because she was too big to squish. Isn't she beautiful? May she RIP. *sigh*


HE HE HE

[isis]

Big ones, yes. Little ones, no.

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by captain

...
But never fear, spiders are resilient ………….. and I have REVENGE on my mind. YUP, Ellen DeG was right, we can be vindictive ………..

CYA
Spider Guy

Dear Spider Guy

Spider Catcher Man is home again, so I'll forward your message to him. I am already well-schooled in the system of revenge, so I know that Brother Spider, Sister Spider, Mummy and Daddy Spider, and Grandad and Grandmother Spider will be waiting for opportune moments to scare the living bejesus out of me.

I will promote the new Spider Catcher from now on - if you leave me alone!



(Michelle, you are a scream!)

[Felicia's Mom]

No, I don't like them, especially big ones. I used to be afraid of them no matter what size them were.

[pitbullmommy]

oh i know what you mean i got the hebie gebies just reading that felt like they were crawling on me and yukkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but i am scared of any kinda spider they only ones i will kill are daddy long legs and only with a broom. note to self cancel the trip to alstralia. no spiders!!!!( i will cry if i see one as big as you were saying

Originally posted by Miss Meow

You could have explained the wire screen to your heart's content: I was convinced that it was going to slip in the side, travel around the wall, under the door and come and get me while I was asleep ... [/B]

[Logan]

Spiders don't normally frighten me, but if I saw one of those that was posted that shows up in Iraq, I'm done for!

[CathyBogart]

Originally posted by Logan
Spiders don't normally frighten me, but if I saw one of those that was posted that shows up in Iraq, I'm done for!

Why? They're only about 4" long and not venomous.

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by WolfChan
Why? They're only about 4" long and not venomous.

It doesn't matter if they're not venomous! They're freaky! He he

I must report, that Mr. Squeaky Spider met his fate, this evening, around 8:30pm. He was high up on the wall above the stairs, well beyond reach. My dad brought the vacuum, and stood there, thinking how to reach him. He was way too high. After a minute, it was like Sqeaky Spider decided that he WANTED to die..........perhaps he wanted to go to the RB to meet all of his spider friends. Squeaky Spider ran down the wall, and into our reach, where he met his fate, and got sucked by Mr. Vacuum.

RIP Squeaky Spider........you will be missed..........

NOT!

[Sirrahsim]

Eeeeeeewwwwww!! the little suckers must have heard me talking about how much I hate beetles! look at what was on my balcony this morning!! How in the world did it get up to the 9th floor?

[lbaker]

A Brown Recluse yes, otherwise not at all. Besides, with all the 17yr cicadas about to pop out of the ground in a week or so (20 billion kazillion of them) my poor spidies wont have a chance this year