[BuddyRoo]

I want to take a shower after reading this thread. Ick. Ick. Ick.

[TheJenners]

Oh ucky why did I read all of this once I saw the word spider??? WHY WHY WHY???

Hate them.

Funny story: A few months ago we had a temporary roommate who was a buddy of DH's, got stationed here and was looking for a place to buy. He stayed about a month or six weeks, really cool guy. I was taking a shower and DH was in the bathroom with me just chatting. Roomie was in the dining room, which is located outside our bedroom. I am in the middle of washing, look over and see a GIANT SPIDER ZOMG about two+ inches across or more on the towel hanging over the shower curtain. I blast, screaming and covered in soap, out of the shower, through the bathroom, walk-thru closet and into the bedroom, see roomie and run back into the closet. Slam bathroom door while shrieking for DH to KILL IT KILL IT OMG KILL IT NOW! He finds and kills the spidey, saying it's the biggest one he's seen in Washington, wow how cool, etc etc, what a jerk. I check the whole shower and climb back in.

Leave the shower, still discussing the huge spider and me peering suspiciously around the bathroom. DH says judging by the size of the squooshed spidey, there are no more around. As he says this, another one even bigger RUNS out from behind the toilet right at my EVERYLOVIN' BARE FOOT in retaliation for ordering the hit on its boyfriend/girlfriend. Cue more screaming, running, flashing roomie. Poor roomie.

I order DH he now has to search the bathroom before I will reenter. We have a basket next to the toilet that holds my hairdryer, straightener and some magazines. He pulls it out and then jumps back and yells "omg!" I scream, slam door, run. He is laughing (oh hahha a prank you soooo funny). More yelling, different kind. Roommate is laughing his butt off. I hate all men for about 20 minutes.

A friend comes over and chills, brings her laptop, about an hour later. Tricks me into watching some Youtube video where a spider JUMPS onto the camera lens. I scream and levitate 20 feet across the house. I sit, shakily, at the kitchen table while cursing all people in the house for being rank bastards, try to eat some casserole...and my necklace chain moves on my collarbone.




Yep. Casserole all over the house and me, bastards are all laughing.

[2DogsFarm]

TheJenners - your story killed me - sorry, but the mental images Just.Too.Funny!

When I was an arachnophobic little kid, if I saw a spider in my bedroom it was "Daddy! Daddy!! DADDY!!!!! KIIIILLL IT!!!"
And I would not go back into the bedroom until he told me he had killed the monster.

Many years later I asked my Dad if he was really killing the spiders, or just smacking the wall so I'd give up and go to bed.
He just smiled.

[jaslyn1701]

I suspect I am known as the crazy spider lady at our barn - although not to my face. I catch and release the jumping spiders that show up in inconvenient places. When I tell the kids, it's ok, they don't bite people, they get that okaaay look on their faces - and then I prove it.

Widows, on the other hand, squish away!

[Heinz 57]

We have Hobo spiders here, and especially in our house as it was owned by an elderly lady who didn't/couldn't do a lot of cleaning. I shudder to think what may be found in the attics, no way will I ever be going in there. The first few weeks we lived here, hobo spider killing was a daily occurrence.

One day, not too long ago (a few weeks, really) I got up to shower before work. Upon entering the bathroom (WHY are they always in the bathroom?!) I discovered what was most likely to be the largest spider I've ever seen, a big hairy brown Hobo spider with a solid 2" leg span. Gahhh. Woke Mr. Heinz up and demanded that he go kill the spider NOW. Daddy long legs are fine - I leave them or relocate if I can - but not the Hobos.

[Melelio]

Jenners, that was HYSTERICAL! Make a great movie scene!

And EUW over the hobo spider...why DO they like the bathroom????

NOW I'm squicked out over my own POST!

[2DogsFarm]

Jenners, that was HYSTERICAL! Make a great movie scene!

And EUW over the hobo spider...why DO they like the bathroom????

NOW I'm squicked out over my own POST!

You started it!!!!
I'm telling....

I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who did a bit on spiders in the bathroom:
"Yup...I'm black and hairy, but I'm invisible on this white tile"

[candyappy]

I was wondering what " squicked" meant and now I think I do!!

[GypsyQ]

Those are wolf spiders...they carry their egg sac around until it hatches. Then all the babies hitch a ride on momma for about 2 weeks. Then they go off on their own.

I love this stage! You surprise them and ALL those fuzzy little faces stare up at you going, "Uh, oh!"

I suspect I am known as the crazy spider lady at our barn - although not to my face. I catch and release the jumping spiders that show up in inconvenient places. When I tell the kids, it's ok, they don't bite people, they get that okaaay look on their faces - and then I prove it.

Widows, on the other hand, squish away!

Yes. This is me at every job I've ever had. Always animal care jobs of some description. It amazes me how many folks devoted to animal welfare will so quickly stomp a spider.

Around here we have the spiders in the woods. I've always called them Armored spiders. They build across the trail, usually at eye level. DH likes to lead the way through the woods. Ironic, since he has no sense of direction or familiarity with woods. However, he is tall and usually clears out all of the spiderwebs for me

[Anon40something]

*Puts LED headlamp back in drawer and pulls out flashlight to use from now on*

I did not know their eyes would glow like that, and as many spiders that are out right now in south central KY, I don't want to find out!!!

I'm not spider phobic, actually. I don't like being surprised by them is all. I'm supportive of the large garden spiders with their webs in the corners of our covered porch and in the garden, they are beneficial.

But the large hairy leapy wolf spiders freak me OUT! I have this irrational thought they they are going to leap on my eyeballs and suck the fluid out... it's all in the way they MOVE. Eeek. *Shudders. Takes shower.*

[Melelio]

Well, quadruple EUW!!! I walk out the patio door to feed the dogs this morning, turn around to come back in and WHAM! There's a HUUUUUGE! wolf spider mama there RIGHT at the door where I stepped through!!! Complete with back fulla babies.....

SQUUUUIIIIICCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, she got too close to the house, so she and brood are no more....amazing how, when I shot the spray at her, all the babies scurried off......EEEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUU!!!!

[onelanerode]

OMFG.

This thread makes me want to hurl. I DO NOT DO spiders! GAH.

[pinkpony321]

You guys. this thread just ruined my life.


Give me snakes, bugs, worms, blood and guts. Just do NOT give me spiders.

*shudder*

[MaybeMorgan]

I love spiders. You spider killers make me sad.