*Creepy Crawly Warning* This was in my SHOE!

[lizbud]

I love Pam's rules for dispensing with spiders;

"Of course the #1 rule is never let it out of your sight because it will surely escape and hide and then crawl on you at night. Even though one is totally repulsed to look at it, it is necessary to keep it in view! When it comes to cleaning up the dead body I get a ton of tissues in my hand and even then I am afraid it will come back to life and start to crawl on me. "


So totally true......creepy, but true. Makes you skin itch
doesn't it?

[K9soul]

We had a lot of spiders show up in the house I grew up in, in the Missouri Ozarks. I think partly cause we had a cellar that was built under the house and I think they came up through the vents or something. Also we had no air conditioning and had the windows open with box fans in the summer. Though there were screens in place, I still think they got in that way sometimes through a hole or gap or something.

Anyway, as long as they weren't brown recluses, we generally left them alone or tried to catch in a jar to put outside. This is NOT to say I wasn't nervous of them being in my clothes or shoes, I was because it is startling and because brown recluses were very common there too.

However, I remember leaving the little jumping spiders in the widowsills because they always caught flies that buzzed around in the windows

Perhaps that is one reason I don't have an extreme aversion or fear of spiders the way so many people do, cause I had so much exposure to them. But also Mom was very nature oriented and we'd always watch nature shows including the ones on spiders. The more you learn about something, the less it tends to frighten you at some point

[micki76]

Originally posted by Pam
When it comes to cleaning up the dead body I get a ton of tissues in my hand and even then I am afraid it will come back to life and start to crawl on me.

You are brave to take those pictures while it was still alive. I would have been shaking so bad that they would have been all blurry. Where where Chester and Millie when all of this excitement was going on?

LOL!!! Pam, you're so right. I had no less than 4 paper towels folder over once that I picked him up with.

I actually took 6 pictures, and the other 4 were blurry!

Fortunately, the kids were outside during the whole thing. Millie came in just after I killed it (could've been my blood curdling scream that brought her in!) and I was terrified that she might try to eat it while I went for paper towels. I was afraid to pick her up, she would throw my back out.

This is the SECOND one of this size that I've seen this year.

Sorry it freaked you out, Laura.

I'm kind of upset that I had to kill it. I've been wanting a tarantula and I know that I can't have one until I can stop killing it's relatives.

[Pam]

LOL! LOL! Micki!!! Four paper towels!!! LOL! You would have heard me scream all the way to Texas too! I can't imagine what I would do if one of my dogs or cats ate it. I know the cats would have loved the thrill of killing it and probably would have found it quite tasty! GAG!!!

Micki, my son had a tarantula as a pet once. I could tell you a story that would curl your hair but I am making myself woozy even thinking about it! LOL!

[chocolatepuppy]

OMG !!! I would have died!!! But I agree with the don't let it out of your sight thing If I didn't kill it, and it got away, it could have my house, because I'd be out !!!

[popcornbird]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck!!! What a freaky spider!!! I can't believe it was in your shoe!

A few days ago, I woke up in the morning, and my leg was itching all over. As I got out of bed, I looked at the ceiling right above me, and there was this HUGE spider.....one of those dark, black, thick-bodied ones, that are so muscular you can practically see the joints in their legs. It was FREAKY!!! I jumped out of bed and looked at my leg, which was swollen, and had bites on it, obviously from that spider!!! They were big bites.......certainly not mosquito bites. Had to be that spider.

Anyway, I ran downstairs and got 5 paper towels, ran back upstairs, and climbed on my bed so I could reach it and squish it. I reached up, while trembling, and got it in the 5 paper towels. As I was crumbling the paper on it, the spider fell out and fell on my bed. I SCREAMED!!! Then I quickly jumped down, found it, squished it, and flushed it down the toilet. I actually flushed the toilet three times. Sorry spider.......you dare come in my room and bite me, you die. Not exceptions. Any spider that enters my house gets the death sentence.

I sighed with relief, knowing it was gone, and then walked back to my room to get ready for the morning.

I believe this happened last weekend. I still have those bites. Just the thought of that evil spider being in bed with me that night sends chills down my spine. I KNOW it was in my bed because it bit me. Ugh.

[AbbyMom]

Oh why oh why did I look I know better!

I want to cry just looking at that picture. Why did I look, lol.

I feel the same way. My heart started pounding and my face is flushed. UGH! I can't imagine taking pictures!

[KYS]

I think I would have passed out! lol
Good thing the spider left your shoe.

popcornbird, You are a brave woman.
I am not sure I could have squished it with a paper
towel. I would have need to use a large object.

[gini]

Entirely too many legs!

Entirely too big!

Entirely not welcome!

Four paper towels? Heck, I would have gone after it with the whole roll!

[rg_girlca]

THANK GOD we don't have spiders like that where I live.

I HATE SPIDERS.

If I came across one like that in my shoe, I swear, I would drop dead, johnny on the spot.

EWW, EWW, EWW. That is one HUGE creepy looking spider.

You were so brave to kill it.

[DogLover9501]

*shudders* I am SO glad we have nothing like that around here!!

[wolf_Q]

I saw a spider that looked almost just like that last week!! It was HUGE too! The only difference was the big round part of the body was more of a cream/white color. It was hanging out by the big hole in our front porch (also a snake hangout). It freaked me out! I didn't kill it, just went in the house...if it was in the house things would have been different. I keep looking for the spider, I want to see it again and show it to my mom. She doesn't believe me that it was that big!

[CathyBogart]

Originally posted by molucass
Ewwww!

It looks like a brown recluse. SCARY!

It looks nothing like a recluse!!

Little wolfie spider. I'd have been glad to relaocate it for ya if I lived closer.

[micki76]

Originally posted by WolfChan
It looks nothing like a recluse!!

Little wolfie spider. I'd have been glad to relaocate it for ya if I lived closer.

I wish you did live closer, I would have called you! I felt SO bad killing it, but I just wasn't brave enough to catch & release it, like I've been tying to do with the small ones that I find. Still, it's hard for me to catch & release even the small ones. I'm slowly getting over my fear though, so that's good.

I'll never have my Tarantula. I mean, it's like wanting a dog, but killing any that come into your yard.

Obviously not a brown recluse. I know what they look like, as well as black widows. When you live in TX you'd better know what those two look like and stay out of their way!

[pitc9]

Ahhhhhhh I would have flipped out too!!