Gah!  Ick!  Motherfuckers want to ambush me in the shower when I'm all naked and vulnerable!

EWewewewewewewewewEEEEEEEUUUUUWah!

Word musta got out that if they corner me in the tub there's a 70% chance I'll squeal like a girl and run off, hence the spider can live to fight another day.  *chuckle*  Not tonight's stupid bugger, though.  He's dead-dead-deadskie!  ;d

Blech.  *chibbers*

Now I hafta to go double-check the sheets before I crawl in bed.  *lol*  'Night!

OMG..I just had a mini-panic attack on your behalf.

Heh, I have spiders in every room. Most of the ones here are harmless to humans, and they make good insect foragers.

Here's a TED talk about spiders ^^

I feel the same way!

I took my house shoes off one night this week to find that there had been one of those giant brown spiders in my shoe and it was....you guessed it, stuck to my foot.

O. M. G.!!!!! I thought I would die! Now I have this Virgo Moon over anal inspection routine before placing any shoe on. LOL

I completely understand how you feel, SaD.  I saw one crawling on the wall at work yesterday.  The sneaky little thing got away before I could take action, though.  *shudders* 

HOLY SHIT TAM!!! I would have freakin bout killed myself trying to get away from that. Omg..seriously flipping the hell out over the thought of that. Bless your heart!!

Thanks Josi! I thought I would die!!! The good news is it didn't bite me.

LOL - I went to go take a shower last night and there was a cricket on the floor. Little buggers love to come into my space and chirp for sex.  Drove me nuts one time, woke up in the middle of the night looking for a cricket under my bookcase.  I was like, "This ain't a motel, yuh gots ta move along!"

The one last night was missing a leg and half an antennae but was a smartie for sure.  He kept to the side where the bathtub meets the floor so I couldn't get to him with my Mason jar (I didn't want to touch him, I know, I'm such a girl).  He eventually crawled behind the sink into a crack.

Noooooooo, don't kill the spiders!!!!!

One time I accidentally killed a spider when I dropped a book on him. I cried. I was so sad.

Spider medicine

ok, I'll just box em up and ship them to you.

LOL..don't kill the spiders..that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

NO MERCY! The house is MY habitat. Not theirs! They were warned!!!

Sometimes I wanna leave 'em be, sometimes I think they're Ik-to-mi...

ick for Crickets too. We have these things that I call "mutant cave crickets" sometimes. They don't chirp. They are like greyish..sort of see-through and the freaking things jump straight up to eye level. Creepy fricking things. I swear I think that they are alien offspring or something.

I got bit on the ankle by a brown recluse.  Fun times.

"Don't kill the spiders"

Fuuuuuuuuuuhhhhk  that!  I try to be somewhat tolerant of the spindley-legged, daddy longlegs-esque dudes because they don't lunge at me, but the big, thick-bodied, hairy ones are toast if they skitter out from a crevasse and try to ambush me!

I had one of the aforementioned big dudes (about the size of a silver dollar) come after me earlier this week.  He was brown and really fast - I was doing dishes one morning and I swear he appeared in the sink out of *nowhere* and proceeded to make a run at me. I almost keeled over in horror but managed to smoosh him, thank god!

Also, ((((TAM)))!!!  I would wig out if that happened to me - I would probably stop wearing shoes altogether, LOL!

well if it wasnt for the fact that those with arachnophobia on here wouldnt sleep I would put up a picture of one of our local darlings, bout the size of your hand lol,

for those who arent and want to look at one, just google huntsman spider,

all others DO NOT GOOGLE!

Very rare for me to kill a spider, only a very poisonous one inside my home who refused to allow me to get it into the jar for removal lol

Im with you Nota, i cry and cry if it ever ends in death

yep, not much chance of me ever going Aussie

It's terrible luck to kill a spider. Spiders remember that shit. Always be kind to spiders. They are our friends. 

Is my Scorpio showing?

lol Josi, the people and other wildlife are nice though

I cried over drowning a sugar ant in my toilet a while ago. I tried to save him, but I watched him take his last breath, and die on my sink counter. 12th house Venus and 1st house Moon doesn't handle sentient beings deaths well.

As for spiders, I grew up with a religious story/legend about spiders saving a group of orphans lives by making a huge web over the mouth of a cave, so a mob assumed that no one was in there hiding. So I was raised to not kill spiders, as they have their sacred quirky moments.

I don't think I've been bitten by one, and if I have to kill a spider, I usually say I'm sorry, and to come back as something else in it's next life, and I'll be nicer. With the ferocious buginator beast I live with...most spiders get played with and batted around enough that they walk out on their own. Then the furball does her victory dance, and comes to me for head butts and encouragement. ;)

P.S. I forgot to add that if I make any sort of shriek or squawk sound in the shower, someone with four paws and whiskers ruled by the Moon will also make shower calls, and come to get those one's too.

Never killed spiders until I got bitten by that brown recluse. 

Whether we frame them as good or bad has a lot to do with cultural context.

Camel spiders. They all look like that in my mind. eeek.

that's just wrong....

Hahahahaha

He looks like he's enjoying himself...but for those of us with arachnophobia, thank you, Miss Plutonian.

That man has some serious mental issues.

I would shoot him.

Rubber-bands, SaDiablo.  Get a supply of rubber-bands--the best spider-hunting ammunition you can find.  The big red ones they use to bind newspapers for delivery are REALLY good--I'm trying to find those.  But for now I have a few nice thick rubber-bands, and any spider I see in my room gets nailed (if not on the first shot then DEFINITELY by the third try).  They bite me in my sleep, therefore no quarter is given in return.

LOL @nutsy.  My Dad is a MASTER at killing insects with rubber bands.  Silverfish, spiders, mosquitoes, anything on the ceiling is DEAD.

Haha, Jennifer--hell yes!  I grew up learning hand-eye coordination by letting flies into the house so I could hunt them down with rubberbands.  Any insect I see is dead meat, unless they haul ass like The Flash and get lost pretty quick.  I keep reloads within reach, so if I miss with one I'm quickly firing another.  Don't want 'em getting away, y'know--'cause they never really GO away.  The fuckers.

Haha, dude you're awesome.  My hand-eye coordination is nothing like Dad's.  Man is an insect sniper.

In NY, I discovered you can use nail polish remover to kill cockroaches.  They curl up and die in a few minutes.  Beats trying to stomp and squish those hard carapaces.  If I found an unhatched egg case I'd set it on fire.

I only kill the spiders that get in the house, man.  If they're outside, they can live -- but in my house?  Aw, hell naw!

I once had a spider sac hatch above my bed when I was a kid.  I was never afraid of spiders before that, but watching all those little buggers scamper off and then rappel down over me?  ICK.  After that, spiders in the house needed to DIE.

@Nutsy:  Good trick!  Need to work on my hand-eye co-ordination, though.  I still miss the trashcan 30% of the time.  ;)

@Tam:  EEP!  That would wig me right the fuck out!  I'd be doing the girly-dance of EW for, like, daaaays.  *lol*

@Jennifer:  Ouch, man!  Brown recluses are no fricken' joke!  I had to laugh at setting cockroach eggs on fire, though.  I do that to any egg case/sac I find, just to be sure.  ;)

Haha, SaDiablo...

Here's how you can practice.  Get some Lincoln-logs, build a house, put some little figures in it, purchase a bag of nice strong thick rubberbands, sit about ten feet away from it and pick your targets, craft your aim, and become a sharp-shooter by repetetive action.  That's my secret, which I honed from age 10 to 13.

OOH!  And I get to buy Lincoln Logs!  *shine*  :D

*Ugh* Brown Recluse were "everywhere" in Hawaii.

I rarely kill those tiny-thin "house spiders"..... but anything which looks like they can hurt me , fair game!!

Yeah, my ankle and leg swelled up and I could barely walk on it.  There were reddish bruise marks radiating out.  3 days after I got bit, I had a healer cut it open and drain the poison.  Saved me from losing a leg.

I love spiders! Abluelily I've seen the bird eating spider in Oz...wowzers. Their silk is like twine, LOL.

I dreamt about 2 spiders in a cupboard last night. Hmmm.

Someone told me spiders are good luck.     I'm going to hell.   

Small ones don't bother me any more.  I let them go about their business of killing the zillion mosquitoes we get every summer.  It's the big, hairy ones that give me the chills.  I have serious arachnophobia!

Mr. Cap, who thought he was being funny, dropped a huge, fake, hairy one on my back in the Cracker Barrel gift shop a few months ago.  This thing was the same size as the dinner plate-sized bird eating spiders.

DO NOT GOOGLE!!!!!!!!  IT'S TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE EAST COAST TO BE THAT FREAKED OUT!!!

You can imagine what happened next.  I was clawing my way to the women's bathroom, screeching and spazzed, trying to get away from that nasty thing!

The hubs, who likes spiders as much as I do, chewed him out for that.

One of those nasty SILs bought Mr. Cap one of those RC tarantulas as a Xmas gift one year.  That thing went straight into a toy donation bin before he could get it home.