Arachnaphobia - I hate spiders (page 2)

mrsjones5

I even let them survive.

Yeah but then they get bigger

City Fan

I am o.k. with any kind of insect or spider or snake apart from one kind of spider, the house spider!

I don't know why but I just hate them. We have one in our shed the size of Shelob so I won't go in there! Around this time of year the male house spiders are found skuttling across floors looking for females. If the one you saw was particularly large chances are it was the biggest variety which is commonly called the Cardinal spider, and only death is good enough for those!

doofdaddy

Ballistic

I would'nt reccomend a holiday in Australia if you can't stand crawling/slithering things. We have the crown jewels of killers!!

One, the funnel web spider manages to a nail a few people each breeding season despite antivenine being freely available. They are the ugliest creature known to mankind. Huge fangs and bad attitude.

Same with our snakes. It is just the start of Spring here and I have seen my first venemous snake a few weeks ago. Plenty of slithery tracks in the dirt each morning as most hunt at night.....

Angharad

LOL Ballistic this will give you nightmares - something similar happened to us last week. I got up in the middle of the night, when I came back into the bedroom I saw the biggest spider I have ever seen sitting ON THE BED, that I had just got out of. I don't know how long it had been there, I didn't want to splat it against the bed covers so tried to catch it in a cup but it got out and ran off down the edge of the bed and I couldn't find it - by this time Simon has woken up too and had seen it run off so we both ended up lying there thinking about this monster spider that was somewhere nearby

Few days later Simon spotted it again, but it was on the wall right near the ceiling at the back of the wardrobe and out of reach - so I picked up the cat and shoved her up on top of the wardrobe, hoping she would kill it . Stupid creature sat there looking at it then got on her back legs against the wall so she was right level with it - and just stared. Then she jump off and walked off - What happened to killer instinct?

So we still have a huge mutant spider somewhere in our bedroom

PaulJ

My wife (Amy) is petrified of spiders. The problem we have is we live in an old cottage that seems to be filled with them! Every night we have to go round getting rid of them.

The other night the found one that was this big- I I

Now, I know thats not 'that' big compared to say Aussie spiders but even i wasnt happy with this one. Since then we've seen 3 more this size!

doofdaddy

Paul they are that big between the eyes here!!!!

Confession

I hate spiders too. I mean in the "understand-their-role-and-that's-great-but-keep-away-from-me" sense. Since my daughter and I moved into the apartment we're in, we find there are lots of 'em! I sent away for one of those sonic things that are supposed to scare them off. No dice. They claim over and over that it won't disturb dogs or cats, but the moment I plug it in my cat scrambles away.

So I found the scariest spider spray I could. The label says it will kill spiders or scorpions "on contact," and that it does (at least for the spiders.) I've sprayed our deck and near every window and doorway a couple of weeks ago--and I see no sign of 'em anywhere now. A week ago I found a huge Daddy-Long-Legs near our deck, and gave it a little squirt. It held on for about 2 seconds before simply dropping to its (apparently) immediate death.

Evanescence

I would'nt reccomend a holiday in Australia if you can't stand crawling/slithering things. We have the crown jewels of killers!!

Shhhhhhhhhhhh don't scare the tourists away

lol Ballistic your braver than i am.... I wouldn't go near the spider at all, i would go and sleep in the lounge or something.

I have the worst phobia on Spiders, I would check every corner as I enter the room and I get really spooked while having a shower, afraid that one will jump out..... I do get hunsmands a fair bit in The bathroom and in the kitchen area. oh and I cannot go outside in my backyard at night there are always a whole heap of big ones

Sometimes i'm not that bad... I can be more braver than other times.

Angharad, I didn't know there was another admin on this forum I thought Simon was the only admin and the rest were "Forum assistants"

One tactic I try is to imagine the spider is your worst enemy or someone you dispise, then u can kill it die evil spider DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*although that idea doesn't work for me *

Evanescence

vitty

I couldnt of flushed it down the loo, Id have a phobia about it crawling back up and biting me on the bum

Ballistic just think about that the next time you use the toilet ha ha !

Actually ive just rmembered, I think I ate one the other morning. I was half asleep and something was in my mouth, I tried to brush it away, but I think it was thr remains of a half eaten spidar ahhhhhhh I just wouldnt let yself think about it too much, cos I really hate them. When I told my husband he wouldnt kiss me !!!!!

ballistic

*** crosses Australia off the "must do" list ***

*** crosses cat off the "must get" list ***

PaulJ, I'm reading this on quite a big monitor, I don't know if that makes your spider even bigger, but this one was that big and a little bit more.

I don't know if you notice but when you kill them their legs fold up threefold and they then look a lot smaller, then you wonder what you were so worried about.

vitty, It was well and truly dead, I'm not sorry to say.

I must admit, the adrenaline racing like it did was a lot worse than normal, possibly becasue I was half asleep, and stirred by a noise that could be anything. Oh, and the box it was crawling on sticks out from the wardrobe right over my pillow.

Arachnaphobia - I hate spiders

Share this