Spiders

I hate them so much. So, so much...they creep me out. And in Oregon we're having this little problem with so-called "Wolf Spiders", which are ENORMOUS and SCARIER THAN HELL. I just killed one minutes ago by dropping a large piece of dense wood on it. Does anyone else have a serious issue with spiders? I absolutely want to freak out when I see one anywhere near me. But I can control myself, around other people. 😛 Kinda...

aww, I'm sorry you have the same intense issues with 'em that I do Aprilbaby...yes, my arachnophobia has always been there, since I was little according to my parents. I actually had nightmares just like yours, with thinking a huge daddy long legs (rather than tarantula) was sitting there on my dresser across from my bed getting ready to Pounce. My parents also told me that the first time I cursed, I was sitting outside on our patio when I was about 2 years old, and said..."damn bugs". lol...About the shoes, good idea, and I know that's what most people use to kill the bastards but I'm soooo afraid of them that I have this fear that if I use my shoe, it won't die completely and it will crawl up INTO my shoe (I know...I need therapy. lol)...so I usually don't use my shoe with spiders...I usually grab the heaviest thing near me and fling it at it, hoping it sufficiently squishes the guts out of the thing. 😛 I do love Raid though.....I like using it outside and just dousing spider webs with it...we have, also, where I live, something called a "tunnel spider", which spins a web that looks like a tunnel and they ARE considered "aggressive" and will attack for no good reason, when you least expect it they propel themselves out of the tunnel. Can you believe it?? lol. It's so wrong...evil things...

Ugh!

Niyeth!

I'm afraid of snails, worms.

I think I was a spider in my past life and Phoenix squashed me with her shoe.....I came back alright, but I came back as a bird so that I could eat all the spiders. I will protect you, Phoenix...I'll just do my "swoopin" thing and get those nasty spiders outta your way!

Serious prob with spiders here too. We have 'Huntsman Spiders' which is part of the tarantula species. They love to come indoors and can smeel fear cause they always run towards me. They are quite big, the biggest one we had was the size of a dinner plate.

We got woffee's to big and harry. they eat bugs

I HATE SPIDERS! When I look at their hairy, grotesque, disgusting bodies it makes me shiver. I used to live in Germany when I was younger and the Wolf spiders there were enormous and plentiful, I hated them. Now, I just kill them on sight, gods creature or not. Saying that, I also have a fascination with finding big spiders in my garden and feeding them bugs, horrible to watch yet strangely compelling...

LOL....I'm crackin' up...thanks Freebird! I do so appreciate the protection 😉

Lawgoddess, I have had a couple spiders run at me before, also...it really really pisses me off...I'm like..."who the hell do you think you are? I'm bigger and stronger and will kill you immediately". And then I run. lol....and then I come back armed with RAID and a heavy object just in case the Raid doesn't do the job (and, sometimes, it doesn't, with enormous spiders)...shudder...

I freaked out just as Aprilbaby at the "dinner plate" thing....Holy God, I'm telling you, I've never seen a spider *that* big except on the Discovery Channel, and I was beside myself just seeing it on TV. 🙂 Ick!! Do you kill em yourself, or have your husband do it? I have to admit that although I have certain feminist ideologies...I want a MAN to kill the bugs...I just do. I don't know why. I think it's because I know they'll smack the cookiemonster hard enough to really kill it. 😛 I've "thought" I killed spiders before, and then..."nope", there he is, running toward me even faster now because all I used was a wimpass rolled-up newspaper.

BTW...Never saw "Starship Troopers", and now I'm NEVER GOING TO...lol, and I'm good with that 😛

LOL, that's twisted-ly funny, Richdog...I suppose you're just speeding up mother nature there; would have happened eventually, but boys are entertained by odd things (thus I'm not too suprised you like to watch the whole process - I had a guy friend who said he'd put two spiders at opposite ends of a twig and make them fight each other!). 😛

Yep, you won't ever find me saying, "don't kill that thing; it's God's creature"...The place I used to work, we had a recurring wolf spider issue in the corner of the ladies room. One day, My coworker/friend was cleaning back there and she found the web, the spider, and what she said looked like eggs. She of course ran to tell me, because she knew how much I hated spiders. lol. I ran to get some sort of chemical to douse the thing in, and she ran to try to "save it". The whole time we're cracking up (the store was closed, so it was okay. lol)..it's a race to see who's gonna do what first, kill it or save it. So she gets there first, and *somehow*, I don't want to know how, scoops it up into a dustpan, and takes it out the back door and "frees" it. She forces me to come and look at it, and it's HUGE with a bigass STRIPE down its back....I'm freaking....walking backwards. lol....and sure enough, somehow the thing made it *back in* to the store and went *back in* to its nest, and she found it AGAIN the next night when we were closing up shop together! I made her get rid of it again...and then this guy who worked at the shop next door found it outside, and decided to keep it for a pet (no joke). Needless to say, I worked with CRAZY PEOPLE! lol. Kidding...I liked my coworker...but how could ANYONE want one for a pet—

yick!