how come..

[Keelie]

i'm so scared of spiders?

i was just in the kitchen and i saw one. scared the hell outa me but he got away too fast and i couldnt kill him... now i wont beable to sleep tonite :(

is anyone else scared of these ugly scary creatures?

[itsmypostoffice]

funny how you're so scared yet so eager to kill it. i'm sorry i couldn't resist the comment. i guess we're all afraid of something and i think we were taught to be afraid. once we take time to think things through or at least confont it, then the fear lessens. not everything can be unlearned --

[blainehamilton]

Spiders are good.

They eat the bugs in your house. (Not that I'm saying you have bugs in your house)


I just leave em be. I see one maybe every year or 2.

[coco]

You can't avoid spiders...

I heard that every year we eat a few spiders while we sleep...

One time I woke up in the middle of the night only to see a 4 inch spider (2inch body) on the wall right beside my bed... at my face level! That scared the sh~t out of me... :shock:

[TCS]

I am so scared of spiders. I don't know why. I never kill them - I can't. I'm just so scared I freeze. I think it's stupid, but I can't help it. My brother used to have a tarantula and I was fine with it. I even held it a few times. But now if a spider touches me I'll freak out.

[Chemical2001]

I picked up the pants I was going to wear off my floor and a spider crawled out of it! Yikes. Good thing I found it before I put them on.

[Melchior]

I make a point of killing every spider that I find in my room. I've had spiders walk over my face while I'm sleeping (it's creepy to wake up in the morning and realize that you've got spider web all over your face), they leave bits of web inside your electronics, hanging from my lamps...

Last Sunday I lucked out and found 2 big ones that were living behind some boxes under my bed. Vacuumed up those suckers, as well as a dozen baby spiders.

It was only a couple years ago that I had so many spiders taking up residence in my room-- that was when I got a decently-fast computer, which kept my room a little warmer than I was used to, so I opened up my (ground-floor) window a crack, and suddenly all sorts of bugs and spiders were making their way in. Last year I was sitting at my desk and I heard a *plop* on the carpet to my left. I looked over to find a huge frikking spider wandering around on the floor-- I guess it was too heavy to be able to hang onto my wall. Pinned that one under a shoe and went off to find the vacuum cleaner. yuck.

I hate spiders...

[KennyX]

I hate those baby spiders... very very disgusting.

A couple of years ago, I rolled up a newspaper and smacked the heck out of a spider which was on the floor.

...

All of a sudden the damn thing exploded. I guess I didnt notice that there were dozens of those little baby spiders on its back!!!. They were everywhere! I had to run and grab the vaccuum to clean the mess. :shock:

[TheGame]

when I pick up shoes from a place they've been laying for a couple of years, I usually make sure there are no bugs in them cuz that would be totally sick if i stepped on one inside my shoe :shock:

[Keelie]

a week or so ago i came home one nite and as i was unlocking the door there was a HUGE black widow spider hanging off the doornob. i cant handle that sorta thing.
had to kill it instantly. and even tho i'm terrified of them, i HAVE to kill them cuz i cant stand the thought of it being loose in the house.

i have a handy can of raid on the shelf for the times i cant get close enuf. thats the hard part, being able to get close enuf to kill it.

[=mojo=]

HEHE :D

[tick]

Useless fact of the day: We swallow on average 11 spiders a year :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm :D

[wintech]

Useless fact of the day:  We swallow on average 11 spiders a year  :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm  :D

Another reason to wear one of those surgical masks when you sleep.

[Keelie]

think i might have to start wearing one :roll:

[Zippity]

Useless fact of the day:  We swallow on average 11 spiders a year  :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm  :D

Another reason to wear one of those surgical masks when you sleep.

either that -- or start drooling more often.

[thomas997]

those wolf spiders i think they are called that are very common are huge..

I think they live in the garage and make their way into the house somehow.

one was living in my recycling box thing. they are like the size of all the 1-9 keys on the right of the keyboard..

other spiders are okay though

[KiLLaKoW]

I REALLY didnt want to know that. I'm actually looking for some kind of mask right now...
luckily I sleep on my stomache, less chance of having your mouth wide open at night I guess.

[tick]

I REALLY didnt want to know that. I'm actually looking for some kind of mask right now...
luckily I sleep on my stomache, less chance of having your mouth wide open at night I guess.

don't worry...i'm sure the bigger, scarier spiders that hide in your ears at night will scare away anything that wants to climb in your mouth... :twisted:

[dealforme]

those wolf spiders i think they are called that are very common are huge..

I think they live in the garage and make their way into the house somehow.

one was living in my recycling box thing. they are like the size of all the 1-9 keys on the right of the keyboard..

other spiders are okay though

Ya I remember seeing those in my uncle's house a couple of years back and it freaked me out. I don't usually have a problem with spiders but see one that big my initial thought it was a tarantula. We don't have spiders that big in AB and therefore I wasn't accustom it :oops:

[Keelie]

those wolf spiders i think they are called that are very common are huge..

I think they live in the garage and make their way into the house somehow.

one was living in my recycling box thing. they are like the size of all the 1-9 keys on the right of the keyboard..

other spiders are okay though

they usually arent that big here cuz our winters kill them off.. but after a mild winter they are HUGE!!

another that freak me out are those BIG puff (dunno name) spiders.. good god those are scary :!:

[towingwidow]

My cat usually gets to them first. I can kill them, NO problem. I just get the creeps picking them up after...kids job.

[blainehamilton]

Lol. Cats just love to eat bugs.

They like to play with them first tho.

[Keelie]

Lol. Cats just love to eat bugs.

They like to play with them first tho.

mine just watch them, maybe swat at them, then lose interest. bastards :P

[blainehamilton]

Maybe you need to coat the bugs in BBQ sauce?

:D

[Chemical2001]

My cat can catch birds in the backyard, but she's hopeless when it comes to spiders. Go figure.

[Tara1644]

ewwwwwwwww spiders

[advantage21]

Useless fact of the day:  We swallow on average 11 spiders a year  :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm  :D

Hmm, extra protein in the diet. If you are lucky to get a radioactive one you can turn into Spiderman...........

[Keelie]

Useless fact of the day:  We swallow on average 11 spiders a year  :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm  :D

Hmm, extra protein in the diet. If you are lucky to get a radioactive one you can turn into Spiderman...........

that'd be cool

[tim13]

Marge: Well, everybody's got a fear of something.
Homer: Not everybody.
Marge: [to Homer] Sock puppets!
Homer: Where?! Where?! Aah! Aah!

[from Fear of Flying]


I don't mind spiders, but for some reason I cannot stand beetles. They creep me out.

[charger]

My apartment is full of spiders, I got woken up last night (after a 10 hour flight) by the sound of then crawling through my walls, they must have proliferated when I was away. I have mice too now:(

[TigerHawk]

Yikes!
Wolf Spiders are huge! :shock:

http://troyb.com/photo/images/photos/039-24-WolfSpider.jpg


those wolf spiders i think they are called that are very common are huge..

I think they live in the garage and make their way into the house somehow.

one was living in my recycling box thing. they are like the size of all the 1-9 keys on the right of the keyboard..

other spiders are okay though

[frogger]

F&*K thats nasty get me outta here

[Keelie]

Yikes!
Wolf Spiders are huge! :shock:

http://troyb.com/photo/images/photos/039-24-WolfSpider.jpg


those wolf spiders i think they are called that are very common are huge..

I think they live in the garage and make their way into the house somehow.

one was living in my recycling box thing. they are like the size of all the 1-9 keys on the right of the keyboard..

other spiders are okay though

thats not what the wolf spiders here look like.
more like this:
http://www.ento.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/wolfspider.htm

[itsmypostoffice]

ok, i like spiders. yes, there must be something wrong with me but i really like them. in fact, whenever my mom is about to swat one, i cup them in my hand and throw them outside....well perhaps not the wolf spider. but you never know, we've never had one in the house before :lol:

[blainehamilton]

Sounds like some forum members need a new place to live.

[SENSEI]

OMG!!!! Looking at those pictures just gave me the BIGGEST FREAK OUT in the world... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I hate spiders...I've had a fear of them ever since taking a shower at my aunt's house in St. Petersburg Florida when I was around 6 years old.

Was in the bathtub and saw something move in the corner of my eye. IT WAS A FREAKING TARANTULA!!!! Wasn't any bigger than a golf ball...BUT STILL!!! IT WAS A TARATULA!!! HAIRY AND ALL!!!! :shock: :shock:

EWWW....i'm getting shivers just thinking about that and this thread.....yuck... :oops:

I'm outtie!!

[Keelie]

wolf spiders are nothing compared to the big black widows. they scare the hell outa me.

[goob3r]

Useless fact of the day: We swallow on average 11 spiders a year :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm :D

Hmm, extra protein in the diet. If you are lucky to get a radioactive one you can turn into Spiderman...........

spider-man.

sorry, couldn't resist.

I remember a few years ago I was watching TV in the basement with lights out. I thought I saw something moving along the wall behnid the TV. I flipped on the lights and holy S**T! It was a huge black spider, with the biggest body that I'd ever seen. It took me a good hour before I got over it.

Two weeks later, saw it again. Took some isopropynol and drowned the bastard.

But millipedes, or whatever those things are with the sectional bodies, pinchers, and hella long legs. Those things scare the crap out of me.

[Keelie]

one time i was watching tv with a friend and this HUGE spider crawled across the floor, i ran for whatever i could get.. grabbed the phone book and threw it over the spider. just left it.. after the movie i got brave and went over and picked up the phone book.. omg, the spider was GONE!!!! freaked me out :P

[Vancouver 1.7EL]

I HATE SPIDERS!!!

The main floor of my house seems to be a magnet for them. I still get freaked out everytime I see them. Maybe because they seem to appear in the strangest and most unassuming places. I always catch them in a container, toss'em into the toilet, and FLUSH!!! :mrgreen:

I just caught a nasty 2 inch (body+legs) wolf spider last week dangling down from a light fixture in my living room. I was sitting on the couch when I notice this freaky thing coming into my line of sight of the TV. Ahhh!!

Even worst was last year. I woke up around 2am to use the washroom. As I was relieving myself, I glanced in the mirror and saw a big honking hairy 2-3 inch spider on the wall right behind me. Yikes!! Let's just say I had to wipe up the bowl and floor area after that. :oops:

:lol:

[towingwidow]

one time i was watching tv with a friend and this HUGE spider crawled across the floor, i ran for whatever i could get.. grabbed the phone book and threw it over the spider. just left it.. after the movie i got brave and went over and picked up the phone book.. omg, the spider was GONE!!!! freaked me out :P

I hate it when that happens. I like to know that things really are dead when I think I've killed them...

[Keelie]

LOL

[Ryen]

have you ever woke up , and your breathe is really awful.. then you wonder "did I forget to brush my teeth last night" maybe its a spider

[Keelie]

i'm a FIRM believer that theres no spiders in my room :wink:

[towingwidow]

one time i was watching tv with a friend and this HUGE spider crawled across the floor, i ran for whatever i could get.. grabbed the phone book and threw it over the spider. just left it.. after the movie i got brave and went over and picked up the phone book.. omg, the spider was GONE!!!! freaked me out :P

I hate it when that happens. I like to know that things really are dead when I think I've killed them...

forgot to add that I'm so damn chicken I get my kid to lift up murder weapon to check, daughter has gotten pretty handy with the dust pan....."WHACK! it's dead now, mum..."

[urameatball]

I LOOOOVE SPIDERS!
I keep them around my room so they catch all the bugs.
I hate bugs!

[TheGame]

I LOOOOVE SPIDERS!
I keep them around my room so they catch all the bugs.
I hate bugs!

how can you hate bugs and like spiders???

[Keelie]

was thinking the same thing

[TheBrain]

Useless fact of the day:  We swallow on average 11 spiders a year  :? ...they crawl into our mouths because it's moist and warm  :D


bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrong! :)

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of "facts" that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous "facts," among which was the statistic cited above about the average person's swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.

[Defiant]

While most of the smaller spiders dont bother me at all, the one that does is the daddy longlegs...just the way they walk, its so...mechanical almost, its freaky!

[Melchior]

Just to add to the horror of spiders, I remembered a few minutes ago about one of the "Tasteless Tuesday" emails from the Ernie's House of Whoop Ass (ernieshouseofwhoopass.com, or something like that) email list from a few years ago (yes, I keep just about every email I get, with the exception of non-spam commercial newsletters). This story is unconfirmed, but it'll make you squirm anyway! (sorry, I know it's a bit long)

Here it is:


BROWN RECLUSE - THE ENTIRE STORY

--------------------------------

[Memorial Day Weekend] Friday, May 28th, 1993. An amusing side to this story is the fact that the reason I ever went into the basement closet was to find a book to use as reference material for an article I was going to post to another group on this network! Well, anyway, I knew it had to be in a box in a closet under the stairs we use for storage. There are also a bunch of old coats and clothes hanging on a rack. The boxes I was going through were underneath this rack of clothes and I moved them with my body as I bent over to look for this book. I can't remember, but I either had no shirt on at all, or a short sleaved shirt. It was warm here in Utah that weekend. We live in Bountiful, Utah, approximately 15 miles north of Salt Lake City, along the mountainside called the 'east bench.' Prior to this time, I had never heard of the brown recluse in my life. Growing up, we were only told of the black widow. You see them around once in a while, but generally they just stay in a corner by themself and you only rarely hear of someone getting bit. Anyway, I had got in the closet about 8-9PM.

Saturday, May 29th, 1993, 11:32 AM (Sounds like Dragnet don't it?) I had finished mowing the lawn and came in and took my shirt off to cool down. I was sitting in front of the TV and I was just rubbing my hands along my arms when I felt puffy skin on my right arm, near the shoulder. I looked and saw an area about the size of a quarter that appeared as though it was burned! It shocked me because I couldn't figure out what could have happened. My immediate thought was that I did it just minutes before while I was outside, but I couldn't possibly see how. The skin was wrinkled and thin. It appeared to have 'pus' under it so I grabbed a kleenex and just hardly touched it. The skin came awayeasily and a yellowish-brown fluid discharged. I'd never seen anything like this. At this point it looked harmless, like a blister or floor-burn. The area left after the skin came off was just light red or pink and seemed as though it would heal-up and be gone in a day or so. I didn't put anything on it or even give it much thought the rest of the day. By 8PM the area had increased to about the size of a half-dollar and looked bad. I had taken a shower and was getting ready to go out when I looked at it. It was weaping clear, light-yellow fluid and the skin had strange spots and was appearing to turn to a dark red color. I showed it to my Dad and he thought 'it looks like impetigo.' My mother didn't think so, she said then that 'it looks like you've been bit by something.' I decided to put 'Gentian Violet' on it.
(Now, this was a mistake in the fact that the dark violet color hinders diagnosis because color is an important part of identifying problems on the skin. Doing this did cause a slight delay in diagnosis. However, of all the things I tried, viz., Hydrogen Peroxide, Burn Cream, Hydrocortisone, and Neomycin, it was the Gentian Violet that seemed to work the best. If I were bitten again, and knew I was bitten, I would use Gentian Violet for at least the first 6-7 days. Anyway, back to the story...)

Sunday, May 30th, 1993, 7:45 AM. Get out of bed and --- YEECH! What have I got on my arm? It was weaping something fearce and there were 3 spots on the sheets where it had weaped yellow fluid but they were also stained blue from the damn Gentian Violet which drained out along with the fluid. Now, I had a thin piece of gauze taped over the wound, but it had drained to the point that it had become saturated and oozed through to the sheets. That's how much it was leaking. Gross. I shower and before I had put more stuff on it that day I noticed that our neighbor, a Pediatrician, was walking by the house. As I picked-up the morning paper I asked him to take a quick look at the ulcer on my arm to see if he had any idea what it was. (I'm sure doctor's are constantly asked about things by neighbors, but no more so I guess than I'm asked about computers). He looked at it and said, "You need to have this looked at, today if you can." Today? It's Sunday on Memorial Day Weekend - What's the sense of urgency? "That might be a brown recluse bite and I would really have it seen today." he said, and added, "Don't put any more of that violet crap on it." It kind of shook me up that he had a sense of 'do it now' to his voice. At 11 AM I went to the Bountiful "Instacare" (An 'always open' chain of medical clinics in the Salt Lake City area). The doctor said she was sending me to Salt Lake City LDS Hospital Emergency room right away. That she felt it was indeed a spider bite, but needed it confirmed and the clinic couldn't handle 'surgery' there if it was required. This really scared me to death. Especially when she told me about some people needing 'amputation' in extreme cases, etc. Went to ER and the doc there wasn't sure because of the 'violet s***' I put on it. (Those are the words he used). So, I got a painful shot of antibiotics in the rear. (Don't know what or how much unfortunately. I usually ask about everything I'm getting but in this one case I forgot). I was started on Prednisone (20mg - 4/day for 4 days, 3/day for 4 days, 2/day for 4 days, then 1/day for 4 days), and basically told to see my personal physician on Tuesday. Topically, I was to put bacitracin on twice daily when I changed the 2 x 2 guaze.

Monday, May 31st, pain begins. I have diarrhea, stomach cramps, hot/cold flashes but didn't even once consider it was in any way related to my possible spider bite. I went to the store and bought several cans of Ortho Indoor Insecticide, making sure that the brown recluse was listed on the back of the can. Apparently, lindane is a necessary ingredient to kill them. I went to the basement and sprayed like crazy. We have no children nor pets so I really went wild. No one sleeps down there either. I had been asked the previous day by the doctors if I had been in any attics or dark closets,etc. At first I had said no. It didn't even hit me until sometime later when I remembered going into the closet for that book. That was the only 'dark unfrequented' room I had been in in the last several days. I gave the closet under the stairs a double-dose. Then I closed the doors to all of the basement rooms and made sure the windows were shut. I left it that way for hours, then went it and sprayed again. I wasn't messing around.

Tuesday, Jun 1st, I see my doctor in the morning. I was lucky to get in - there had just been a cancelation and apparently he was booked solid from the long weekend. By now, most of the violet stain had disappeared. It was the size of a dollar and looked terrible. I hurt terribly and didn't feel well. He didn't know what it was but wanted me to see a dermatologist in the same building. He set up the appointment himself as he didn't want me waiting more than a day at most to get in to someone. The appt. was for Wednesday. He told me to stop putting ANYTHING on it. Just leave it completely alone except for the guaze to soak up the drainage. He wanted the dermatologist to be able to see it without it having been affected by anything. At this point, the pain wasn't bad enough that I needed anything and I didn't even ask. When I got home that night, my Dad and I carefully removed everything from the closet under the stairs. We found 2 dead spiders. One was a small common black house spider, the other was strange. We had never quite seen a spider like this in Utah. It's legs were smooth and light brown. It's body was definitely brownand the fangs on its head were huge. On the cephalothorax was a little brown 'line' that on inspection with a magnifying glass looked like a small upsidedown violin. Bingo. The violin spider. It was so damn tiny! "Oh, come on.", my Dad said, "How could this little thing do that to your arm?" I doubted that it did also. My Dad thought about it, then said, "Hmmmm. It's so small it makes me wonder if there isn't others around here. Maybe this is just a baby one." The entire breadth of it was no more than the size of a nickel.

Wednesday, June 2nd, the dermatologist just happened to be from North Carolina and had treated 2 bites in the past. As soon as she removed the gauze she said, "Yup. Brown recluse." The wound was disgusting. It was huge and had a light brown/clear center with a dark/purpleish-red ring around it, then another thin ring of red skin. She called it a 'bulls-eye' and it did in fact resemble the eye of a bull. Pain was getting bad. I didn't like to do anything that put any torsion on the skin of my right arm at all. Even having a shirt on which rubbed the gauze hurt. When you put your hand lightly over the gauze you could feel 'warmth' from the wound - it was hot. Well, she wanted me to change the bandage twice daily and apply bacitracin again. Whenever I applied it, the wound would 'bubble' up with little pustules and drain crud out of it. This was not a fun wound. I showed the doctor the spider in the bottle and she said, "Well, I'm almost 100% sure that's was bit you. From your description of what happened, the fact you found a brown recluse, and the bull's eye wound, I just feel sure about it." She recommended a professional spraying and agreed that the fact that it was small may indicate there may be more. We called Orkin that day. I went back to my personal internal medicine physician and got a prescription for Mepergan Fortis (Demerol for pain, Phenegran ingredient for the frustrating itching).

I saw the dermatologist and my regular physician each Wednesday for the next 3 weeks. I watched with dismay as the wound increased in size and swelling began in my right arm. After about 2 weeks, it began to 'separate' into 2 circles. At first they were hooked together like a figure eight (8), but gradually they separated into 2 distinct circles (OO) about the size of a half-dollar each. Pain would wax and wain. The wound looked awful, after 2 1/2 weeks it turned a honey-brown color and looked disgusting. The purple part came off and I had 2 nice 'holes' in my arm, the pieces that came off were almost 'corroded' looking, not like a scab or skin or anything else, but like tissue that was destroyed. It was kind of scary. Each day you think, "This has got to be as bad as it's going to get, I'll be improving soon." But it goes on and on. And you can't hardly believe that it's expanding. I took good care of the wound and changed the bandages and took my medication religiously. Finally, the color of it concerned the dematologist. The honey/color suggested to her that staph might be in it. On Tuesday, June 22nd, she had me go in for a biopsy and possible surgery. Here's the posting I made to the news when I returned to work 2 days later:

GAK! I'm back!

Well, for those interested, here's what happened...

Biopsy confirmed presence of staph infection and deep areas of necrosis so they laid-on surgery for 11:30 AM.

Went in and stripped. Was given Valsed (not sure how much) and 150 mg Demerol. 20 minutes later I felt wonderful and scared to death. They put iodine on the arm (felt cold), then told me the numbing injection would be painful. Boy they weren't kidding. One nurse actually held me down on the table with both hands on my chest. Apparently it is an involuntary reaction to 'jump' and I did. The doc said, "OK you're going to feel the needle." And I certainly did, but it didn't hurt anything like the Xylocaine (or was it Marcaine?) going in. Good Grief that hurt like nobody's business.

Well after just a few seconds the pain went away. They used a 'burning needle' to cut away and I remember seeing smoke drift up towards the ceiling. I was starting to enter la-la land and my memory gets foggy here. I do remember a LOT of honey-colored crap being taken out. I felt them 'tugging' and heard 'noises' but felt nothing. Anyway, the doc told my Dad that he was 'suprised' at how much tissue was involved and just 'mascerated.'Dad said I had a 'hole' in my arm that was pretty deep. Approximately 6-inches long roughly the shape of a banana or diamond. It was sewn up and it <HURTS>. I don't even use my arm to try to open a door as it invokes pain. I drive with my left hand. To sit here and use the computer - I push the keyboard to the back of the desk and rest my arms on the desk so that no muscles are needed to support my arm.

The docs say, "Now, if we were to remove tissue from your left arm it would heal nicely. But this area here in your right arm is *not normal tissue* and it also has staph in it. Therefore, I'm on Cephalexin (250mg 4/day), Prednisone again (same dosage regimen as before), Dapsone (which required blood tests and crap), and my old friend that has helped me combat the pain: Mepergan Fortis.

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have these things in your area I implore you to call Orkin. We spent $125 for inside and outside spraying by them and they found 2 more down behind a deep freezer we have in a darkened room not frequented. I don't know how much all of this is going to cost me but I'm sure it won't be cheap. The surgery I had will probably reach $2000.00.

Well, Today is June 28, 1993, 32 days since I was bitten and 6 days after surgery. Finally, finally on Sunday I could tell I was not only feeling better, but my arm is getting better. I can see absolute signs of healing going on. I'm sure now, that this thing will be healed up soon. I'll have a scar, but it will be a long thin one, instead of 2 huge round ones. The skins is red around the scar and there is a kind of scab there but I'm not worried about it anymore. I'm getting good use now out of my arm (it doesn't hurt nearly as bad - I can even open a door now) and I'm well on my way to recovery. I've only taken 1 pain pill all day and I wonder if I'll need one tonight. Thanks for all of your concern and thoughtful letters. If anything else happens - except for normal healing - I'll let you know!

[urameatball]

I LOOOOVE SPIDERS!
I keep them around my room so they catch all the bugs.
I hate bugs!

how can you hate bugs and like spiders???good question... I don't know how to answer you.

I think maybe it's because I like those cool smart bugs, but those dumb lazy bugs piss me off (maybe that's an extension of me hating dumb people). Spiders are cool because they hunt and suck the blood out of those dumb bugs.

[JAC]

Just to add to the horror of spiders, I remembered a few minutes ago about one of the "Tasteless Tuesday" emails from the Ernie's House of Whoop Ass (ernieshouseofwhoopass.com, or something like that) email list from a few years ago (yes, I keep just about every email I get, with the exception of non-spam commercial newsletters). This story is unconfirmed, but it'll make you squirm anyway! (sorry, I know it's a bit long)

It's possible, I suppose, but it does seem a little over-dramatized.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/...truct/ef631.htm (http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef631.htm)

[JAC]

My apartment is full of spiders, I got woken up last night (after a 10 hour flight) by the sound of then crawling through my walls, they must have proliferated when I was away.

Nah, that's probably just the cockroaches.

[Fuggit]

I too used to be afraid of all bugs... they freakin' creep me out until one day I befriended my trusty VACUUM CLEANER!!!!!!!!!!

Now, I'm not afraid of anything... see a bug, SWOOOOSSHHH into the vacuum cleaner!! No more bug squishing, no more "staring at the bug for an hour and waiting to see what it will do next".

VACUUM CLEANER SAVES THE DAY!!

:D

[jerryhussain]

Cant say I'm afraid of spiders or insects, even reptilian beings like lizards, snakes etc., Whenever something of this sort shows up in the house, I'm called for as I am the official hunter of my household. 8)

[blainehamilton]

Just don't suck up a spider with your vacuum. They love to lay eggs in the bag.

[jerryhussain]

also they wont mind waiting in the bag and you suck in more insects only to feed them. Gosh, the situation is becoming quite horrible...maybe they could make a movie on these lines. :wink:

[wintech]

Just don't suck up a spider with your vacuum. They love to lay eggs in the bag.

Oh crap... that's what I usually do (vacumn them up) cause I don't want to kill it.

[Keelie]

somehow i think they can just get out of the vacuum bag and roam your house again. kill i say!!!

question: i used to think when a spider crawled into the sink or bathtub they just couldnt get back out, then someone told me they come up from the drain.. whats your input?

[jerryhussain]

Just don't suck up a spider with your vacuum. They love to lay eggs in the bag.

Oh crap... that's what I usually do (vacumn them up) cause I don't want to kill it.

eventually you haved killed it.

STOP USING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ON SPIDERS !

[wintech]

Just don't suck up a spider with your vacuum. They love to lay eggs in the bag.

Oh crap... that's what I usually do (vacumn them up) cause I don't want to kill it.

eventually you haved killed it.

STOP USING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ON SPIDERS !

Huh?

[jerryhussain]

Just don't suck up a spider with your vacuum. They love to lay eggs in the bag.

Oh crap... that's what I usually do (vacumn them up) cause I don't want to kill it.

eventually you haved killed it.

STOP USING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ON SPIDERS !

Huh?

dont worry, i'm being forced to watch CNN.

[SwiZz]

I woke up this morning and went to pee like I normally do....and felt a tingling in my pants.....

And it felt funny so I shook my leg a little and a cockaroach (sp?) fell out of my undies :| ......what if it laid eggs in my yoohoo and I'm pregnant?

[P__S__2]

lol i too hate spiders.......i kill 1 everyday.

[P__S__2]

I woke up this morning and went to pee like I normally do....and felt a tingling in my pants.....

And it felt funny so I shook my leg a little and a cockaroach (sp?) fell out of my undies :| ......what if it laid eggs in my yoohoo and I'm pregnant?


lolllllll soon u will be pregnant........

but then again i dont think its possible.

[wiggy]

Don't like spiders in the house. I squoosh 'em dead when I come across them. Otherwise they end up all over the place.

Don't mind 'em outside though. Had one make a big web out the back door in the garden. We used to feed it flies. It was cool to watch it run up, chomp the bug, wrap it up and bundle it away for supper later.