| toadslayer72 said: Well it depends on the spider. Most often I'll let them be if they are just chilling and catching more annoying insects like flies and mosquitoes. An active spider that is that is taking a tour of my house will get either a) ignored like the aforementioned chilling spiders, b) get the paper/glass treatment and sent outside or c) crushed, but this is rare. It's funny though because spiders can scare the shit out of me if they are large and appear all of a sudden. It's the movement that gets me, it's something hardwired in me, that fear that can kick in.....all those fucking legs moving all fast and shit. It's not just spiders, any larger fast moving insect with four or more legs that suddenly appear. Now if I see them first from a distance then I'm usually good, I'll even go in for a closer look because at the end of the day, I think they are yet another amazing creature. I brought my kids to a reptile expo a couple of weeks ago and there were several spiders there for sale, saw some nasty ones that would probably give me a heart attack under the right circumstances. One vendor had these Golden Orb spiders for sale and this dude was holding them and letting people at the show hold them so of course my kids wanted to have a try. Once I saw them do I had to as well and it was cool, pretty looking spider. |
Yes its all the fast moving legs that do it for me....which is why i'm near petrified/disgusted by Centipedes and millipedes. Just thinking about them gives me a shiver up my spine.
I'm glad I don't live in Florida cause they have a huge centipede like creature that can be up to a foot long and if they see you they lift up and hiss at you than attack you. I don't even know how I would react to one of those.
